Educational Resources 

This page was created by Dr. Rhonda Christensen and is now maintained by Theresa Overall

You Can Handle Them All (http://www.disciplinehelp.com/)

This site shares a step-by-step approach to handling misbehavior at home and in school. An overview examines the causes of misbehavior, the core needs that motivate humans, and a four-step discipline model. A behavior index applies the model to over 100 specific misbehaviors.

The New Teacher Page (http://www.new-teacher.com)

This site offers advice, ideas, and links for education students, student teachers, first-year teachers, teacher certification candidates, and those who think maybe, just maybe, they'd like to be an educator someday.

Helping Your Students With Homework: A Guide for Teachers (http://www.ed.gov/pubs/HelpingStudents/)

Homework is a source of frustration for many teachers. That's why Nancy Paulu of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research & Improvement (OERI) produced this site. Filled with ideas from teachers for helping make homework effective, the site is organized around 18 tips for getting homework done. Parents may want to browse Helping your Child With Homework, a related site published in 1995.

From: Jerry Taylor , Technology Integration Teacher, Greece, NY School District (http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/taylor/) (Compliments of Blue Web'n.)

Beginning Teacher's Tool Box (http://www.inspiringteachers.com)
This site offers everything from an "Ask Our Mentor a Question" section where you can e-mail questions or concerns to a veteran teacher, to "Tips for New Teachers" (click "archives") that include inspiration, humor, and the top 10 things to do before school starts.

Teachers Helping Teachers (http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/index.html)
"By teachers, for teachers" is the goal of this site. Middle school teacher Scott Mandel and other contributing educators provide basic teaching tips to beginning teachers--things that they can immediately implement in the classroom. It offers lesson plans and has features like "Poem of the Week" and "This Week's Stress Reduction Moment." This site also has a list of education Web sites organized by subject area and topic.

Teachers.net: Mentor Support Center (http://www.teachers.net)
Beginning teachers will definitely want to check out the "Mentor Support Center" from Teachers.net. This feature (click "chatboards") brings together educators in category-specific chats, such as the chatboard specifically for beginning teachers. The site also includes lesson plans, live meetings, a bookshelf with a list of useful resources, and a newsletter.

I Love Teaching.com (http://www.iloveteaching.com)
Designed to encourage new teachers and those studying to be teachers, I Love Teaching.com offers the experiences and wisdom of a veteran teacher.

What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching (http://www.ed.gov/pubs/FirstYear/)
The U.S. Dept. of Education offers this FREE online book (in PDF format): a compilation of award-winning first-year teachers' experiences, challenges, and successes. It includes tips on how to have a successful first year, advice from veteran teachers, and a discussion about the things for which no training could have prepared new teachers.

Tammy's Tidbits (http://edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu/~tbushey/educ.html)
This page was designed for teachers, students, and parents as a shortcut to finding some of the best educational sites on the internet.

Digital Gadgets for Your Classroom (http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/gadgets.html)
This page showcases sites that support the use of handhelds, digital cameras, camcorders, and other "gadgets" in the K-12
classroom.

Evaluating Websites
 

Kathy Schrock's Critical Evaluation Guide (http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html)

Criteria for Evaluating Websites (http://www.evalutech.sreb.org/criteria/)

Evaluating Web Resources  (http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm)

 
 

Special Education Links

The Special Education Home Page   (http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/specialed/)

Attention Deficit Disorder: Born to Explore! The Other Side of ADD (http://borntoexplore.org/)

Attention Deficit Disorder   (http://add.miningco.com/)

All the answers you need to help youth with ADD/ADHD (http://www.youthchg.com/nws1adhd.html)

LD Resources (http://www.ldresources.com/)

LD OnLine: Learning Disabilities Resources (http://www.ldonline.org/)

Dyslexia Success Stories (http://www.greenwoodinstitute.org/resources/ressuc.html)

The George Lucas Educational Foundation (http://www.glef.org/)

IDEA Practices (http://www.ideapractices.org/)

Special Education Materials for Teachers  (http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/speced/)

"Schoolhouse Views" by Beth Bruno, School Psychologist (http://www.teachers.net/FAQ/schoolhouse/bruno12.html)

Technology Enhanced Lesson Plans

A Collection of Technology-Integrated Lesson Plans  Links (http://courseweb.tac.unt.edu/rhondac/lp.htm)
 
Teach-Nology (http://www.teach-nology.com/). 
This web-site has all kinds of technology lesson plans for teachers anywhere from kindergarten to middle school.  This web-site includes all kinds of activities based on themes, rubrics, and reviews.  You can pay to get a higher membership and access more information, but all of the webquest and lesson plan resources are free.

Activities that Use Microsoft Excel or a Spreadsheet Software (http://theresaoverall.org/mywork/techintegration/GuidedInstructionExcelSkills.html).
Some of these activities are lessons to do with students, some of them are things for a teacher to make but that could be modified to have a student use a spreadsheet to make them (for example: word search puzzles).

Activities that Use Microsoft Word or a Word Processor (http://theresaoverall.org/mywork/techintegration/GuidedInstructionWordSkills.html).
Some of these activities are lessons to do with students, some of them are things for a teacher to make but that could be modified to have a student use a word processor to make them (for example: vocabulary cards).

Constructing Webpages

Internet Pocket Guide for Teachers (http://www.genium.com/ipgt/)
 

The Free Site (http://www.thefreesite.com/freewebpages.htm) There are literally hundreds of sites that allow you to have free home pages listed here.

Fun Clip Art

Free Educational Clip Art (http://www.teacherfiles.com)

Web Clip Art (http://webclipart.miningco.com/internet/design/webclipart/)

Downloads

Windows PowerPoint Viewer (http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Ppview97.aspx) If you don't have PowerPoint on your computer, you can't create a PowerPoint document, but with this free software, you can at least view already created PowerPoints (such as ones you need for class).

RealPlayer (http://www.real.com/)

MicroWorlds Player --this is necessary to view MicroWorlds projects on the web
(http://www.microworlds.com/webplayer/index.html)

Netiquette

E-mail Netiquette (http://songweaver.com/netiquette.html)

Guide to Emoticons (http://www.windweaver.com/emoticon.htm)

Using E-mail Effectively -- including composition, etiquette, organization, privacy and security (http://curly.cis.unf.edu/emailtips/emailtips.html)
 
 

Bloom's Taxonomy with good examples and good verbs (http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learn/program/hndouts/bloom.html)

Bloom's Taxonomy PowerPoint by Intel that has explanations and verbs (shown in class)

Task Oriented Question Construction Wheel Based on Bloom's Taxonomy (http://www.stedwards.edu/cte/resources/bwheel.htm)

We have access to their new and improved version of the Task Oriented Question Construction Wheel :-)

Gardner's Multiple Intelligences (note: when Gardner first introduced this concept in the 1980's, he included 7 intelligences. Later he added "naturalist" and after that he introduced "existentialist". Not all resources have been updated to include these "new" ones.)

Gardner's Multiple Intelligences and technology tools that support classroom activities for each of the nine intelligences (http://www.eduscapes.com/tap/topic68.htm)

Teaching to the Multiple Intelligences (http://www.mitest.com/omultint.htm) This site describes 8 of the 9. Their "test" does not include naturalist or existentialist. This is their survey for adults to take to see which "intelligences" are dominant for them. http://www.mitest.com/o7inte~1.htm

Technology and the Multiple Intelligences (http://www.casacanada.com/multech.html)

Learning Styles (visual, auditory, kinesthetic)

The Center for Problem-Based Learning (http://www.imsa.edu/team/cpbl/cpbl.html )

Hemispheric Brain Dominance (right brain / left brain)

Left Brain / Right Brain (http://brain.web-us.com/brain/LRBrain.html ) This site has information and characteristics of the different brain dominances and a survey you can take to see which is your dominant side.

Copyright in the Classroom

To Copy or Not to Copy: That is the Question (http://www.aea2.k12.ia.us/Tutorials/Copyright/Copyright_.html)  

Copyright 101 for Educators: Winter 2003 (http://www.wtvi.com/teks/02_03_articles/copyright.html)

Cyber Citizenship Awareness. (http://www.cybercitizenship.org/) This is an informative site for teachers, parents, and students which covers the topics of cyber ethics and cyber crime in a well-done and understandable manner.

Copyright Resources on the Internet  (http://groton.k12.ct.us/mts/pt2a.htm) This is an extensive and well-organized list of links with information regarding the important aspects of copyright and intellectual property rights.

Copyright Permission Letter (http://www.bham.wednet.edu/copyperm.htm) This is one part of the Bellingham (WA) policy pages that is a useful sample document for students to use when asking for copyright permission for republishing of material.

But I found it on the Internet! (http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/04/25/fp16s1-csm.shtml) With so much homework done online, kids need better skills to sort out good information from bad.

Plagiarism and the Web (http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfbhl/wiu/plagiarism.htm)

Digital Cameras, Handheld Computers, & Other Digital Goodies

Kathy Schrock's Digital Gadgets (http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/gadgets.html) This is a collection of links to lesson plans and information pages about handheld computers, cameras, digital microscopes, and much more.