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ADMINISTRATION, ASSOCIATIONS and PROFESSIONAL
EDUCATION: Portal:Education
ASSOCIATIONS:
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The Association for Practical and Professional
Ethics
* Education International
World's largest educators' federation.
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Canadian Teacher and School Administrator Organizations Worldwide
- European Association of Teachers
- UNITED STATES: Private and public organizations.
- ACE®: American
Council on Education
Major coordinating body for all the nation's higher education
institutions.
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American Association of University Women
and
AAUW Local Branches
- American Federation of Teachers
- The Association of Teacher
Educators
- National
Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
- National Education Association
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National PTA®
- U.S.
Department of Education
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Educational Associations and Organizations
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Just for
Teachers
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IFUW -
International Federation of University Women
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IFUW - National Federations and Affiliates
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Phi Delta Kappa
International association of professional educators.
PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIONS and TEACHER EDUCATION:
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Apple Learning Interchange
Dynamic online community where educators share, learn and communicate.
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Becoming a Teacher in a Field-Based Setting:
WWW Links
Introduction to education, classrooms and instructional resources.
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Critical Links
Professional development tool
that supports teachers in refining their expertise.
* Education World® - The Educator's
Best Friend
* Higher
Education Academy
Helps institutions, discipline
groups and all staff to provide
the best possible learning experience for their students.
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Higher Education Academy - Subject Centres
United Kingdom
subject-specific support through
a nation-wide network of twenty four subject centres.
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Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes
Assessment
Use the browser's Find (Ctrl-F)
function to locate information about a particular topic.
* MERLOT: Multimedia Educational
Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
Online community where faculty, staff, and
students from
around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.
* NEA: AOL at School for
Educators
* PBS TeacherLine
Professional development for PreK-12
educators.
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Teachers Helping Teachers
Education site written by teachers for teachers.
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Teachers.Net
Teacher chat, information, lesson plans and teaching careers.
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TEACHNET.ORG
Teachers Network enables teachers to collaborate in order to grow
professionally.
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ThinkFinity
Improve student achievement in traditional
classroom settings and beyond
by providing high-quality content and extensive professional development
training.
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UNESCO.org:
Teacher Education
United Nations educational, scientific and
cultural organization.
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VoS - Voice of the
Shuttle: Teaching Resources
* We The Teachers: A Teacher Community
* Yahoo!® Teachers
Peer network designed by and for teachers.
EDUCATION: LESSON PLANS, TEACHER HELPS and HOMEWORK:
WikiTeach
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Archive.Edu
Storehouse of instructional materials on a variety of topics that
educators can freely access.
* EDSITEment
Teacher resource lesson plans and at-home activities.
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The Educator's Reference Desk: Lesson Plans
* thegateway.org: GEM
Gateway to Educational MaterialsSM is a Consortium effort to provide educators
with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various
federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.
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Lesson Planet
Search 150,000 teacher-reviewed lesson plans.
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The
Lesson Plan Library
Kindergarten, elementary, middle school and high school lesson plans.
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The Lesson Plans Page
Over 3,500 free lesson plans.
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PBS Teachers
Resources for the classroom.
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TeachersFirst
Collection of
lessons, units, and
web resources designed to
save teachers time,
by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and
ad-free format.
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TeacherTube.com
Online teacher made videos.
* TeacherVision®
Teacher lesson plans, printables, and worksheets by grade or subject.
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Timesavers for Teachers
Classroom forms, masters and worksheets.
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Printable
Teacher Worksheets, Elementary Worksheets
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VideoLectures
Exchange ideas and share knowledge.
* World Lecture
Hall
Publishes links to pages created by faculty worldwide, who
are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language.
EDUCATION: MEDIA and INSTRUCTION for SCHOOLS
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Annenberg CPB Channel
Free satellite channel for schools, colleges, libraries, public broadcasting stations,
public access channels and other community agencies.
* Blackboard
Enables institutions to embrace the full power of the
Internet
with access to any learning resource at any time from any place.
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Cable in the Classroom
Cable in the Classroom (CIC) is the U.S.
cable industry’s education foundation;
to foster the use of cable content and technology to expand and enhance
learning
for children and youth nationwide.
* Centre for Learning & Performance
Technologies
Making sense of e-learning trends,
technologies and tools.
-
Directory of over 2,200 E-Learning Tools - Free and
Commercial
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Top 100 Tools for
Learning
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Connexions® - Sharing Knowledge and
Building Communities
Collection of free scholarly materials and a powerful set of
free software
tools to help.
* DIIA
instructional technologies
Designed to enable faculty to easily incorporate online features
in their classes, from the University of Texas at Austin.
* EDUCAUSE CONNECT
Transforming education through information technologies.
* Education Podcast Network
Wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to
teachers looking for content
to teach with and about, and to explore issues
of teaching and learning in the 21st century.
*
Intel®
Education Initiative
Improving 21st
century teaching and learning.
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MyGradeBook.com®
Web based gradebook, enhancing communication between teachers, parents
and students.
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PowerPoint in the Classroom
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ProQuest K-12
Digital teaching and learning resources for K-12 schools and
libraries.
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Teach With Movies
Use entertainment as a learning tool.
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UMUC-Verizon
Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology
EDUCATION: PUBLICATIONS:
Ulrich's
Periodicals Directory
GENERAL:
education - Google™ Book Search
* ERIC - Education Resources
Information Center
Free
access to bibliographic records of journal articles, other education-related
materials and links to full text, if available.
* Research
Society for American Periodicals
Resources for research: periodicals.
*
Serials
in Cyberspace
Selective listings of worldwide web sites and
resources,
having electronic journal collections and services.
*
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Education: Literacy Portal.
* Web Pages for Scholarly Societies
SPECIFIC:
Google™ Scholar
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CITE Journal
Online, peer-reviewed journal, established and jointly sponsored
by five professional associations: AMTE, ASTE, NCSS-CUFA, CEE, and SITE.
* Education Magazines
* Remedia Publications
Quality products created
to develop basic skills for children and
young adults.
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Teacher Ideas Press
Award-winning
books by teachers for teachers.
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WikiEducator
Developing free and open educational
content for the world.
EDUCATION: SPECIAL SUBJECTS and INTERESTS:
Teacher
* Academic
Disciplines - Wikipedia®
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Glossary of Education-related Terms
0–9
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B
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D
E
F
G
H
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J
K
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M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
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List of Educators -
Worldwide
* American Bar
Association Division for Public Education
* AskAsia (K-12)
*
Benchmarks
for Math, Science and Technology
What all students should know or be able to do by the end of grades 2, 5, 8,
and 12.
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Common
Themes, Designed
World, Habits
of Mind, Historical
Perspectives,
Human
Organism, Human
Society, Living
Environment, Mathematical
World,
Mathematics,
Physical
Setting, Science
and Technology.
* Connections -
A Global Education Initiative
Promote students' understanding of
world cultures and U.S. Olympic values.
* Disability Resources
For people with disabilities, their families and friends.
* EconEdLink
Economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers.
* Family Genealogy and History Internet Education Directory
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5th Grade Family History Sites
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Family Tree
Lesson Plans - Genealogy in the Classroom
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Incorporating Genealogy into the Curriculum
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Living History Project
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Miss
Szczepaniak's World : Genealogy Project
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Where I Come
From
Take research heritage a step beyond
the construction of a family tree.
Travel through cyberspace to find out what's happening
in ancestral
homelands today and explore the sense of connection to
these places.
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Holidays:
- Earth Calendar -
Celebrate Every Day
- Festivals -
Worldwide
- Perpetual world-calendar.com
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Medical and Health: Genetics,
Genealogy and History:
Fitness
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PE Central®
For health and physical education teachers.
* Mineral
Information Institute For Teachers Only
Free download of lessons,
activities, guides, student pages, backgrounders. Information
on minerals and other natural resources and their importance in our every
day lives.
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Common Minerals and Their Uses
- Mineral Photographs
-
U. S. State
Mineral Information
* Photography and Clipart
Resources
* Regional Educational Laboratories
Network
of support for research-based school reform. (USA)
- ARCC - Appalachia
Regional Comprehensive Center at Edvantia
- LAB - The Educational
Alliance at Brown University
- LSS - Laboratory for Student
Success - Mid-Atlantic Region
- McREL Mid-continent Research for
Education and Learning
- NCREL - North Central Regional
Educational Laboratory
- NWREL - Northwest Regional
Educational Laboratory
- PREL - Pacific Resources for
Education and Learning
- SEDL - Sourthwest Educational
Development Laboratory
- SERVE - Southeast Regional
Educational Laboratory
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WestEd - Western Regional
Educational Laboratory
* RETANET
Resources for teaching about the
Americas.
* Science, Technology and How Things Work
* Smithsonian Education
Gateway to Smithsonian educational resources.
* A
Teacher's Guide to Folklife
Resources for K-12
classrooms.
* Teaching Guide to the Holocaust
Education and legacy forum for teaching the holocaust.
* Teaching History
and Geography
Fundamental issues of teaching
world history and geography.
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History
Lesson Plans and Resources
- The Learning Page... especially for
Teachers
From the Library of Congress - American Memory primary sources.
EDUCATION:
STUDENT DATABASES and PARENT RESOURCES:
Student
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ALA | Great Web Sites for Kids
* Education Planet™
Quality web resources for students
and teachers.
* emTech Consulting
Emerging Technologies resources
organized by topics for teachers, students and parents.
* Family Education Network
Source of educational content, resources, and shopping for parents,
teachers and kids.
* Houghton
Mifflin Pre-K-6 Education Place®
Resources for elementary-school teachers, students and parents.
* KIDSNET®
National (USA) resource for children's television, radio
and multimedia sources.
* PBS Parents
* Reference and Homework Help
Database and search sites for students, parents, educators and the general public.
* Schools, Colleges, Universities, Alumni
and Genealogy Education
Worldwide comprehensive resource of educational
institutions, past and present students,
alumni, associations, faculty, friends and military personnel.
EDUCATION: WEB SEARCHING and the INTERNET
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AT&T
Knowledge Network Explorer: Blue Web'n
Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format
(tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities,
projects).
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Awesome Library and
Education Resources
Topic-by-topic breakdown of the best sites on the Internet,
including the top 5 percent in
education.
*
Busy Teachers' WebSite
K-12
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The
Educator's Reference Desk: Resource Guides
* FREE -- Federal
Resources for Educational Excellence
U. S. federal agency Internet resources for teaching and learning.
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Google™
For Educators
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Harvard
Graduate School of Education
Collection of
professionally chosen Internet links,
to freely available sites of interest to educators.
*
iEARN - International Education and Resource Network
World's
largest non-profit global network that enables teachers and youth
to use the Internet and other technologies to collaborate on projects
that
enhance learning and make a difference in the world.
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Landmarks for Schools: Words of Humankind
* Online Education and
Resources
* Top Search Engines and
Directories
* Web Exhibits
Highest
quality and most interesting exhibits in the Internet.
Accelerated Teacher Resources
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