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Becoming a Teacher
Congratulations on choosing a wonderful profession! We hope you find the resource links in
this area helpful as you plan your teaching career and education, also don't forget to become a
member of our TeacherNet
Bulletin Boards which are always helpful to new
and seasoned educators.
If you have information that would be helpful to others and you would
like to pass it on write us at ask@teachernet.com
and we'll add it to the list. Best wishes from all of us here at Highlights!
Research Teaching Degrees with AllEducationSchools
All Education Schools is a comprehensive online directory of accredited teacher education programs
and teacher career resources. Whether you're a recent high school graduate seeking teacher
certification and a bachelor's degree, or an experienced teacher who wants to upgrade your skills
with a master's or doctorate in education, we provide a complete resource for teachers and education professionals.
Getting Yourself Ready - The First Days
The First Days is a collection of tips and ideas from first grade teacher Terri Creamer, third grade
teacher Susan Altemus, and sixth grade teacher Carol Hornat at the William F. Halley Elementary School
in Fairfax County, Virginia. These pages are not geared for any specific grade level. Please pick and
choose what works for you. Feel free to copy and use the sample activities, and to copy these pages
to share with others.
Management Tips for New Teachers
If you're a beginning teacher, you probably worry about classroom management. You're not alone.
Classroom management -- managing both student behavior and the physical learning environment -- is an
ongoing concern of all teachers. And a topic you'll continue to read and learn about.
27 Tips for Parent Communication
This list of tips comes from TSTA/NEA and is provided by the Beginning Teachers' Tool Box.
New-Teacher.com
New-teacher.com is a resource site 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.
It is the goal of this site to help new and "wannabe" teachers find information, inspiration, and tools to
become fulfilled, effective, growing professionals for our kids.
New Teachers Online
New Teachers Online explores the experience of being a teacher. Our web mentors are veteran teachers who guide and inform discussion. We invite all new teachers--whether you are brand new, relatively new, or constantly seeking new assignments, ideas, and experiences--to join us.
Beginning Teachers' Tool Box
Beginning Teachers' Tool Box is a community of educators with the mission of empowering new teachers for classroom
success. We support not only beginning educators, but those training and working with first-time teachers as well.
We sincerely hope you find this site helpful in gathering information to help you in your teaching career.
11 Techniques for Better Classroom Discipline
Here are eleven techniques that you can use in your classroom that will help you achieve effective group management and
control. They have been adapted from an article called: "A Primer on Classroom Discipline: Principles Old and New" by
Thomas R. McDaniel, Phi Delta Kappan, September 1986.
AFT Research Department: Teacher Salary
Includes 50-state survey, profiles of salaries in the largest cities, international teacher pay, cost-of-living info, a graveyard of historical data, and more.
Predicting the Need for Newly Hired Teachers in the United States to 2008-09
This report examines the need for addititional teachers by using information from several Schools and Staffing Surveys. This report finds that approximately 2 million additional teachers will be needed by 2008-09. Some of these additional teachers will be needed to replace teachers leaving the profession and others will be needed as enrollments continue to increase.
K12 Handhelds
An extremely robust and useful site dedicated to providing handheld solutions for education. The site includes an
interesting "101 Great Educational Uses for Your Handheld Computer" paper, as well as sections on application
software, integration studies, access to grant information, and a set of various useful resources about the
uses of handhelds in education.
The Teacher List
The Teacher List is a daily listserv and web-archive of one useful website each day. (A listserv is an online or
email newsletter sent to a group of subscribers.) Edmonton teacher and technology coordinator, Pete MacKay,
provides this free service as a hobby. The basic philosophy is that teachers are busy enough without having to
absorb massive amounts of information. By writing about only one site per day, teachers can decide quickly
whether or not that day's site is of use to them.
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