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Read affordable, teacher recommended books on a plethora of subjects: classroom management, discipline, job search, inspirational, methodology, school reform, and student teaching.
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Classroom Management / Discipline
Discipline With Dignity
What Do I Do When...? How to Achieve Discipline With Dignity in the Classroom: How to Achieve Discipline With Dignity in the Classroom
General
First-Year Teacher's Survival Kit
Fred Jones Tools for Teaching
Road to Teaching: A Guide to Teacher Training, Student Training, and Finding a Job
Getting a Job
Road to Teaching: A Guide to Teacher Training, Student Training, and Finding a Job
Teacher Interviews: How to Get Them and How...
Inspirational
Teacher Man: A Memoir
Methodology
I Read It, but I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers
Reform / School Improvement / Best Practices
Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement (ASCD)
College Knowledge: What It Really Takes
Horace's School: Redesigning the American High School
Nothing's Impossible: Leadership Lessons from Inside and Outside the Classroom
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America
Student Teaching
Road to Teaching: A Guide to Teacher Training, Student Training, and Finding a Job
Explore links to other helpful websites. Website links are categorized by curriculum & instruction, community, fun, job, and tools & resources.
EDUCATION LINKS
Curriculum & Instruction
Education World is a great resource that includes:
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a search engine for educational Web sites only, a place where educators can find information without searching the entire Internet;
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original content, including lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts;
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site reviews
ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
This translation website is a great communication tool. Use this tool to translate important documents, such as parent letters and classwork instructions.
Rubistar allows you to develop rubrics for project-based learning activities.
This links includes all the national education associations, sorted by the subject areas: art, business, multicultural education, and more.
This links allows student teachers to share stories, strategies, and advice.
You love reading? BookCrossing.com offers a fresh approach to the reading experience. Here's how it works: readers register books at BookCrossing.com, then leave them in public places for others to find. By logging onto the website you can find out where the books have been, and what lives they have touched. It's a blast and highly addictive.
- Lehar S. from New Delhi, India
Educators should keep abreast of the latest ideas and advances dealing with world issues, technology, business, science, and culture. Visit TED to learn and discuss ideas from leading and innovating experts.
One nontraditional approach to practice for an interview is virtually. Log-on to one of the many website that will randomly ask you frequently asked interview questions. The idea is that you will respond to whatever question that pops up. While this is helpful in practicing for unanticipated questions, the downside is the website is not specifically geared towards asking education-related questions.
- Janice B. from Spokane, WA
Learn as much as you can about the neighborhood you want to teach in. Click on this website to begin your research.
- Deanthony F. from New York, NY
Use a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel™ to organize your job search. In case you don’t have Microsoft Excel™, you shouldn’t rush out and buy the software. Rather, one idea is to establish a free Google™ account (www.google.com). From your Google™ account you will have access to their service called Docs and Spreadsheets. The Google™ spreadsheet is web-based, but it has the same basic functionality of Excel. One unique benefit from Google™ spreadsheet is that you can access it anywhere you can access the Internet.
This website is a great way to organize contacts. Plus you can sync your contacts, calendar, and tasks with Outlook. The best part is it is free and you can access it from anywhere you have Internet access.
List of accredited institutions and nationally recognized teacher education programs from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.
This comprehensive website lists education and teacher resource links by popularity. Feel free to search key words to find the website that works best for you.
The Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program grants loan forgiveness of up to $17,500 for teachers in certain specialties, and up to $5,000 for other teachers who teach for 5 years in
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