Resources for NEW/Future Teachers

[Cyndi Danner-Kuhn]

Volunteer Teacher from the Trenches,
Could you suggest at least one valuable web link that a new/future teacher needs to know about and bookmark. And could you tell us briefly why. thanks

TECS 290 students:
Please tell us about the resources you found. Make sure you your read through all the posts before adding yous. If the site has already been suggested, find another!!

[Renee Nonamaker]

Site Name: TeachersFirst.com “Newbies”
Site Address: http://www.teachersfirst.com/newbie.cfm
Description: This website gives 4 steps new teachers should take. One step is to plan a terrific first day. There is a link that has many projects for the first day and what you will need. It also gives a link for more resources for first year teachers.

Site Name: LearnNC
Site Address: http://www.learnnc.org/support/newteach
Description: This site gives great suggestions about how you should go about the first year of teaching. There are many links to get more ideas from. You can get lesson plans and ideas for a certain grade.

[Elizabeth Davis]

I have two Websites that I think are really useful. First, the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives. This site has a lot of really amazing math resources for students K-12. http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

The other Website I really like is Starfall. It has really great resources for pre-readers and early readers: http://www.starfall.com/

[iMon]

Future teachers think about the impact of this resource:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid271552687/bctid933742930

If you have not already seen this future technology, at the very least it will make you ponder the future.

[Nancy Brodsky]

As an English teacher, Web English Teacher has been an invaluable resource. It has lessons and ideas on nearly every ELA topic imaginable.

Another website I use frequently for lesson ideas is The New York Times Learning Network.

And finally, the best resource of all? Teacher blogs! There are a ton out there and I wouldn't even know where to begin!

[Tana]

Site Name: Teaching Methods Web Resources
Site Address: http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/methods/resources.html
Description: This a site I will most definitely suggest bookmarking. It’s FULL of links and information that first year teachers would need to know. Everything is organized well and user friendly.


Site Name: U.S. Department of Education
Site Address: http://www.ed.gov/teachers/become/about/survivalguide/index.html
Description: This basically a online article that is designed to help teachers survive the first year. It’s clearly organized and you can reach any part of the article from the table of contents. I know as I look forward to be a first year teacher I have some anxiety and I know this paper will help and become a wonderful resource for me.

[Fred Griffith]

Useful sites for beginning educators:

When I started teaching, the Internet did NOT exist! Now I use it everyday...

It is difficult to narrow down all the good Websites to just two... My first choice,
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators, http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/ has
already been taken... That's what I get for being busy with other stuff... There are some great sites here, folks! I just wish there was more time to explore them! I've got a couple more good sites to add to the mix:

The WebQuest Page at San Diego State University
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/
Until I started seeing some of the Web 2.0 ideas, I considered this as one of the
best places to get ideas for involving students on the Internet. Some of this is
dated, (circa 1995 - 2000), but it still has some great ideas for increasing student
interest. If you have not studied the use of WebQuests yet in your education, you
might want to do so!

PBS Teachers
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/search/
Here is another great resource. You select a topic to search, the grade level you
need and it selects a large number of videos and online sites available to use when
teaching those topics. For example, I searched "Tolerance" under gr. 9-12 Social
Studies and got 30 excellent results! Well worth exploring!

[Christy Buck]

I found this website http://www.puzzlemaker.com/. I thought it was cool for elementary teahers. You can make all different kinds of puzzles such as word finds, cross words, etc. These would be fun activites for children to help them understand important points in history, science, or even a book they have just read. I am a puzzle freak so this was very interesting to me.

[Christy Buck]

I also found another site. http://www.internet4classrooms.com/teacher.htm. This website is all about helping new teachers. They list a lot of different teaching methods and tips. There are some really good articles from counselors giving guidence to teachers as to how to help out with certian situations. There are some really good articles on how to cope with an angry child in the classroom and many other helpful articles! I can definitly see myself using this site a lot as a new teacher. It is always helpful to have something to turn to when you need help with a special situation dealing with children. Being a teacher is definitly something you have to want and love to do. These articles on this website can maybe help those new teachers who may get frustrated when dealing with disciplinary situations or tutoring.

[Bronwyn Smith]

1) What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching
2) http://www.ed.gov/pubs/FirstYear/index.html
3) This site has a lot of good things such as tips from other teachers, ways that principals and administrators can help first year teachers, and a very helpful "checklist of tips."

1) The Teacher Spot
2) http://www.theteacherspot.com/firstyears/index.htm
3) This site was very helpful. It has information regarding curriculum, classroom management, grading, writing lesson plans, and information about Harry Wong. I will definitely use this site my first year as a teacher.

[Barbie]

A website I used a lot for current events is:
http://www.cnn.com/EDUCATION/

It's a ten minute news cast done in a fun and upbeat style. It has a quiz and extra materials to go with it along with unit types of activities centered around a current event. The ONLY thing I didn't like about it was that's it not easy to just few a partial clip, you have to fast forward to the section you want. (The fifth graders thought it was funny have time talk fast....:) They also send you updates each night outlining the programing for the day. So I would always preview that to decide if something could fit in to our day. It was surprising how many times something did fit - especially with the ancient world history topics covered in 6th grade social studies.

[Lucas Moll]

Site Name: United Streaming
Site Address: http://www.unitedstreaming.com/

Description: Excellent site for videos that cover topics that must be covered according to standards. The videos range from K-12 and can be found for virtually any subject area. I, personally, have found the cell biology videos helpful for reinforcing infromation we have covered in lecture. You can try it out for free for 30 days, and can continue to get free streaming videos month after month as long as you can supply a new email address. If your school subscribes you can download the videos and watch them even when not connected to the internet.


Site Name: Animations for Discovery Science Channel
Site Address: http://visservices.sdsc.edu/projects/discovery/

Description: This is only useful if you are teaching a junior high/high school chemistry course. Still I have to let others know about this b/c the animations are so good. The site contains several different movies which illustrate several pivitol concepts in Chemistry. The movies are all quicktime and I just save them and insert them into my powerpoint presentations. Movies include ionic/covalent bond formation, the Rutherford experiment, radioactive decay, etc.

[Leigh Grass]

I would recommend the following sites:

Teach with Technology
http://www.4teachers.org/

This is a very rich site for either the beginning or veteran teacher who are looking to integrate technology into their classrooms.

Also, the Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/

Middle School Technology Integration
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/ms/

Jim Moulton
http://www.jimmoulton.org/

The Internet Schoolhouse
http://www.internetschoolhouse.com/

Leigh