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Professional Organizations

• American Association of Physics Teachers
• American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
• Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
• Association for Educational Communication and Technology
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
• California Teachers Association
• Computer Using Educators
• International Society for Technology in Education
• International Technology Education Association
• Music Teachers National Association
• National Association of Industrial and Technical Teacher Educators
• National Council for Social Studies
• National Council for Teachers of English
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• National Education Association
• National Science Teachers Association (back to top)

Professional Growth

Big 6

Widely-used approach to teaching information and technology skills in K-12 classrooms. The overview and resources provide some sample lessons. Once you've digested that, look at the Virtual Reference Desk for a sample hyper-linked lesson-plan that refines and explains the process even more. http://www.big6.com/

CTAP Online Technology Assessment

Log-on, create an account, and take the online assessments to test your knowledge of technology. The assessments are based on rubrics aligned with the Technology Standard for California K-12 preliminary teaching credential. Find out what you do know, what you don't know and what you need to know. http://ctap2.iassessment.org/

First Year Teachers, Click Here

First day activities, classroom management tips, lots of other resources. http://www.teachersfirst.com/prof-f.htm

The George Lucas Educational Foundation

Links to education-related articles about ideas that work. http://www.glef.org/index.html

The Learning Place

Particularly valuable are the resources for k-12 students and teachers. Site is maintained by the University of Texas. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/k12/

LibraryLand

Links for librarians from the University of California at Berkeley. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/LibraryLand/

McCrel: Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning

Links to resources by subject and age level, as well as dozens of valuable links to information on "hot " topics in education (distance learning, assessment, at-risk students). Also information on conferences, grants and much more. http://www.mcrel.org

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

What is it? Do you need it? How do you get it? More details from NEAonline.
Check here, too. And here is an electronic network for NBC candidates. http://www.nbpts.org/

NcCrel: North-Central Regional Educational Laboratory

Dozens of valuable links, including the Amazing Picture Machine, designed to help educators locate maps, pictures and other graphics online. Links to "hot" topics in education. http://www.ncrel.org/

Project-Based Learning With Multimedia

Why do project-based learning? How to do it. How to assess it. How to write a scoring rubric. Examples of projects that work. http://www.exworthy.com/

Selected Resources in Education from the University of Illinois Education and Social Science Library

If you want to stay current on topics of importance to your career, look here. http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/eleced.htm

21st Century Teacher's Network

Resources to help teachers learn to integrate technology with education. http://www.21ct.org/

Tapped In

An on-line workplace where professional educators can pursue professional development and participate in informal collaboration. http://www.tappedin.org/

Teaching Steps to Tolerance

A program for teachers and students from the Museum of Tolerance. Includes teacher workshops, lesson plans and resources. http://tst.wiesenthal.com/

Teach the Teachers

WebQuests, lesson plans and other terrific resources from this teacher training project. Check the links and see how you can get involved in some terrific training. http://www.teachtheteachers.org/

TERC

A non-profit education and research organization devoted to improving math, science and technology/teaching and learning, TERC is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. Site has curriculum links, research, professional growth info and much more. http://www.terc.edu/

WWW Constructivist Design Project

How to design constructivist cooperative learning projects utilizing the World Wide Web, from the Institute for Learning Technologies.

www4Teachers

All about Project Based Learning, what it is, how to achieve it, examples of outstanding projects, journal articles, information on special ed, multiculturalism, equity and other current topics. Finally, tools to create projects. It's an on-line learning experience for teachers. (back to top)

Handy Tools for Teachers

Free Counter For Your Web Page

There are lots of free counters out there; this gives you more information than most including type of browser, monitor resolution, geographic area of user, etc.

Hot Potatoes

Create genuine interactive mazes, crosswords, tests, fill outs, and other interesting teaching aids after you download this freeware.

Puzzlemaker

Create a maze, word search, crossword, math square, hidden word and other puzzles for your students online. Then save them and print them out. (back to top)

ClassInfo

Post assignments, notes and grades. Site also has other helpful information for educators.

Filamentality

Build a webquest on-line. This site provides instructions, tools, templates and a place to display your work.

HighWired

Post class information and homework assignments. Set up discussion boards and other utilities.

KIKO

The name stands for Knowledge In, Knowledge Out, which is appropriate. the site provides lesson plan wizards to help teachers create everything from basic on-line lessons to sophisticated WebQuests. Once the lesson is complete, the creator can post it, thereby adding it to a growing database of on-line lessons in all subjects, at all levels, accessible through the site. Users sign up for a free account to use the site's resources and may comment on or critique the lessons. Site offers a changing menu of "top 10 lessons. The Write A Haiku online lesson is worth the trip all by itself, if you have BIG bandwidth.

NiceNet

Post class information, calendars, assignments. Set up message boards. Create threaded conferences. Post work in progress so others can work on it or view it. Share links.

Quia

Use their templates to create a web page, online activity (game, scavenger hunt, word search, jumbled words), or an online quiz. Then post it on their server, free.

SchoolNotes

Use their tools, post your homework and classnotes on-line, free, for your students and their families to see.

TrackStar

Provides tools that enable a teacher to organize web sites into an online lesson. There is even a quiz creator. (back to top)

Learning Styles

Multiple Intelligences: How do you learn? How do your students learn? These sites help you to understand various learning styles and may prompt you to revise some of your methodology.

• An overview of the general subject of intelligence and an introduction to Howard Gardener's groundbreaking work on Multiple Intelligences.
• Harvard's Project Zero, which aims to understand and enhance learning, thinking and creativity in the arts and other disciplines.

California Department of Education

Academic Performance Index, Academic Content Standards, e-Rate, assessment, employment, budgets, rules and regulations, and all the rest.

United States Department of Education

Articles and information for colleges, k-12 schools, financial aid, funding, drugs, and other resources for educators.

Content Standards for Teachers and Students

Curriculum Frameworks

All subjects, all levels. These are the blueprints for implementing the content standards adopted by the California State Board of Education.

Ed-Data

Fiscal, demographic and performance data on California's K-12 schools.

ThinkQuest

A competition for students and teachers interested in topnotch on-line education; a lesson plan resource; an information resource. Something you should know about.

Visible Knowledge Project

The Visible Knowledge Project is a five-year project aimed at improving the quality of college and university teaching through a focus on both student learning and faculty development in technology-enhanced environments. The Project involves over 70 faculty from 21 campuses nationwide. This site contains research questions, lesson plans and lots of thought-provoking content. Some day, when you're web-surfing and have time for some random reading, click the link. They're talking about new ways to make knowledge, how to make the writing process public, making expert thinking visible; it's about teaching and learning.