Resources for Educators

General Resources for Teachers

• UW Resource Guide for K-12 Educators
• OSPI information page Information on the WASL, resources, and more...
• Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium
• American Educational Research Association (AERA) The biggest and most inclusive of the ed research organizations.
• Texas Educational Network (TENET) K-12 Schools on the Web(Includes school home pages by state)
• The New York Times Learning Network
• English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs ( NCELA )
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Everything you've ever wanted to know about the NBPTS standards, including examples of exemplary teaching in all subject areas.
• World Affairs Council site with resources for educating your students about world affairs -- of particular interest to social studies, world languages, and science teachers. Links to their calendar and Global Classroom project.
• Learner.org is a site supported by the Annenberg Foundation. Here you can find videos of demonstration lessons in all subject areas for a range of grade levels. There are some great ideas and examples here! Some of the video I use in class comes from this site.

Job Openings

• WATEACH resources and job finder (OSPI)

Subject-matter Links (Also see general pages above.)

• The Franklin Institute Science Museum - Philadelphia, PA: online exhibits, units of study for science and science resources, publications library and more; not only for science teachers.
• National Center for History in the Schools - resources for teaching history and social studies.
• iLoveLanguages!  - a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources.
• The Gutenberg Project - THE website for the Gutenberg archives, a vast library of public-domain world literature and electronic texts
• ARTFL Project -University of Chicago: Research on the Treasury of the French Language; searchable database of 2000 texts from the 13th- 20th centuries, a French- English Dictionary, verb conjugation, the French Bible, and more
• Math Forum hosted by Drexel University : large collection of links to student and teacher resources: problems and puzzles of the week, Ask Doctor Math (students can submit their own questions to Dr. Math by email), tips and tricks, math hunts, lesson plans, educational issues, latest research, parental concerns, and more. Selected Math Resources By Subject contains the best K-12 Internet resources for arithmetic, algebra, geometry, pre-calculus, calculus, discrete math, and statistics
• The Diagnoser Project. Jim Minstrell's site for teachers and students of math and science. Includes assessments, questions, activities, lessons, and more.

Adolescent Development, Special Education, Classroom Management

    Adolescent Development and related topics:

• Adolescence Directory On Line (ADOL)- Indiana University, Center for AdolescentStudies: an electronic guide to information regarding adolescent issues and secondary education intended for parents, educators, researchers, health practitioners, and teens.  Includes information on violence prevention, mental health, and a bunch of resource links for teens on topics from music to homework to 'zines.
• Suicide Information and Education Centre

    Working with students with disabilities

• LD Online.  Great resource page on learning disabilities, including suggestions for adaptating lessons for students with learning diabilities.
• Washington Talking Book and Braille Library

    Classroom management, social skills development

• Committee for Children:  Information about Second Step (social skills program K-8); bullying and sexual harrassment; other links.
• Kentucky Behavior Homepage.  Excellent resource for dealing with children with "challenging behavior."  Great links to many other sites useful for classroom management.
• Puget Sound Adlerian Society  Classroom Management and Parenting resource, including lots of useful workshops for parents and teachers; uses Dreikurs-based principles.  Calendar updated about quarterly, usually one or two classroom discipline workshops per quarter.