Certification
www.ed.gov The U.S. Department of Education
www.nysed.gov New York State Department of Education
www.nycenet.edu New York City Board of Education
http://www.nycenet.edu/offices/dhr/forms2/ Looking to obtain your Day-to-Day Substitute Teaching Certificate (aka Occasional Per Diem Certificate). This website has all the forms you will need.
www.highered.nysed.gov/tcert New York State Office of Teaching Initiative. This site will help answer all your questions about New York State Certification.
www.uft.org United Federation of Teachers
www.nystce.nesinc.com New York State Teacher Certification Examinations Homepage
Learning Standards
http://edstandards.org/Standards.html This website provides its visitors with learning standards in every state classified by subject area.
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/ Access the New York State Learning Standards Documents
http://www.nysatl.nysed.gov/standards.html The New York State Academy for Teaching and Learning
Lesson Plans
www.teachers.net/lessons/search.html This site enables you to search a lesson plan exchange K-12.
www.lessonplanspage.com More than 1,000 lessons plans K-12
http://www.eduref.org/ The Educator's Reference Desk. Lesson plans by topic and grade level.
www.thegateway.org Provides access to lesson plans, instructional units and other educational resources.
http://www.lessonplanz.com/ Searchable directory of free online lesson plans and resources
Educational Resources
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/ Sponsored by Thirteen Ed Online, this site offers several informative online workshops.
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/guides/ New York State Curriculum Resource Guide on the web
www.glavac.com Busy educator's guide to the world wide web
www.k-6educators.about.com
www.discoveryschool.com/schrockguide Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. It is updated daily.
www.AtoZteacherstuff.com
www.teachernet.com Smart Ideas for Busy Teachers
www.masterteacher.com This for-profit web site is a phenomenal storehouse of educational resources (some for free) that includes videos, books on a host of relevant topics (e.g., leadership, inclusion, mentoring, etc.) - a must to browse with loads of teaching ideas subscribe for free materials at - Great free catalog 1-800-669-9633
www.proteacher.com This site contains many useful ideas and tools (including lesson plans in content areas) on a variety of educational topics - easy to navigate
www.effectiveteaching.com Harry Wong's site - packed with info
www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html The Children's Literature Web Guide consists of internet resources related to books for children and young adults.
http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/DSSSE/its/howtos/inspir/inspiration.htm This site offers plenty of good ideas for lesson plans, including graphic organizers.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/APA/index.html An easy to use tutorial on APA Formatting.
www.kidsource.com/kidsource/pages/ed.gifted.html Directory of articles about gifted and talented students.
www.edweek.org/context/topics/issuespage.cfm?id=33 Online archive of articles about gifted education
www.edwebproject.org/edref.mi.intro.html Introduction to Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences.
New Teacher Resources
http://www.teachny.com.comHelp finding new teaching jobs in New York.
www.teachers-teachers.com Teachers-teachers is an online job posting service for teachers, administrators, speech pathologists and other related service personnel. This FREE service allows you to create and submit an online resume, complete a recorded interview and contact school recruiters by mail.
http://www.ccsso.org/projects/Interstate_New_Teacher_Assessment_and_Sup port_Consortiu m/#resource Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC)
www.new-teacher.com A site for new teachers and student teachers
www.inspiringteachers.com Great action-packed site that includes tips for new teachers, resources, opportunity to interact with colleagues
www.newteachercenter.org Promotes excellence and diversity in schools - very teacher friendly
www.teachersfirst.com/new-tch.shtml New Teacher Resources Center
Educational Organizations
www.NAEYC.org The National Association for the Education of Young Children
www.nmsa.org/ National Middle School Association
www.nea.org/ The National Education Association
www.pdkintl.org Phi Delta Kappa International
www.ascd.org The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.Great resources on a plethora of topics
www.gifted.uconn.edu/nrcgt.html The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. This site unites researchers, educators and policy makers in understanding the nature of giftedness and increasing all students' potential. It offers a range of research-based resources on such topics as identification, bilingual education, curriculum, and underserved populations.
www.cec.sped.org Council for Exceptional Children
Diversity
www.splcenter.org Tolerance and diversity issues
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~savega/divweb2.htm Offers recommended websites and research guides for diversity and ethnic studies.
www.educationworld.com/a_diversity/ Great site that offers plenty of links on diversity in education
Multicultural Education
www.nameorg.org/ National Association for Multicultural Education
www.edchange.org/multicultural/index.html The Multicultural Pavilion.
www.mhhe.com/socscience/education/multi/index.mhtml The Multicultural Education Supersite
Learning Disabilities
www.ld.org/index.html National Center for Learning Disabilities. This site contains a vast array of information on learning disabilities.
www.ldonline.org Learning Disabilities Online has resources for identification, assessment, teaching strategies and recommended reading.
www.ldresources.com This site contains an extensive online compendium of books, videos, conference information, tools and other information about learning disabilities.
Assessment
www.school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html An impressive list of resources related to assessment.
http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/places/standards.html Great website with tons of information on assessment
Research
www.alfiekohn.org Useful site packed with the ideas and writings of a noted critic of public education
www.wagner.edu/library/ Wagner Student can connect to electronic resources including ProQuest, Eric and InfoTrac.
Technology
www.epals.com/ The World's largest provider of school safe email and collaborative technology
www.iste.org ISTE is the leading organization for educational technology. This site lists technology standards for administrators, teachers and students.
http://thejournal.com A leading technology-based education publication for K-12 and higher education.
www.techlearning.com A resourceful site for education technology leaders focusing on grades K-12.
www.kidsdomain.com A good site for software reviews, downloading education software and graphics.
http://tomsnyder.com An excellent resource for software and computer related text books.
http://animfactory.com This site is a subscription site but offers plenty of free animated graphics.
www.enchantedlearning.com An adventurous website that contains a multitude of usable graphics and information on just about everything.
http://free-ppt.com This site contains plenty of free Power Point Templates.
