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Mentoring Resources
Just Ask Publications & Professional Development
www.askeducation.com
The Beginning Teacher Center
http://www.teachers21.org/teachers_center.htm
Professional Journals and Magazines
The Education Week website highlights articles from the current issue of the journal. It covers various topics including professional development, the achievement gap, bilingual education special education, teacher quality and much more. In addition, it addresses educational reform issues for educators at all teaching levels.
http://www.edweek.org
The Phi Delta Kappan website below highlights articles from the current issue of the journal. Phi Delta Kappan is one of the premier journals for education. The journal articles cover an array of subjects, including public attitudes toward the public schools (PDK/Gallup Poll), educational research, as well as best practices. In addition, it addresses policy issues for educators at all teaching level. http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/kappan.htm
NABE News, the National Association for Bilingual Education’s highly respected flagship publication, keeps you abreast of important issues in bilingual education. This resource is beneficial to teachers who work with culturally and linguistically diverse students. This theme-based publication is filled with informative articles and feature pieces relevant to the work of both education experts and novices alike. Each issue explores a critical bilingual education concern and contains regular columns on legislative and regulatory issues, indigenous bilingual education, Asian-Pacific American Education, book reviews, and much more. NABE News is distributed to all NABE members, and can be purchased by non-members on NABE’s website. http://www.nabe.org.
General Resources
The Teachers Helping Teachers Cool Stuff web page offers links to "The Best Educational Resources on the Web." http://www.pacificnet.net/
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Center for the Prevention of School Violence To learn about strategies to reduce school violence and receive a free poster visit www.ncdjjdp.org/cpsv
Environmental Education and Training Partnership This site offers educators information, resources and links for promoting academic achievement and environmental literacy. www.eetap.org
The Discovery Education website offers free teacher resources. Explore their programs and contests, interactive games, puzzles, lesson plans, and more. http://school.discovery.com
Thinkport is the product of an on-going partnership between Maryland Public Television and Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education. Thinkport offers rich online educational resources, valued professional development, and innovative multimedia learning tools to help teachers teach more effectively, inspire students to learn, build bridges between schools and homes, and fulfill Maryland Content Standards for education. The future of Maryland education is happening right now. Thinkport offers you a unique opportunity to be a part of it. www.thinkport.org
Visit a preview of National Geographic’s new web page for teachers. Navigate iconic National Geographic maps with new interactive features and tools for creating custom materials that can be easily printed and shared. Experience captivating National Geographic photography and video, optimized for use in the classroom. Discover a range of supports for learning about real-world issues and find valuable resources to prepare your students for the world of the future.
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/
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The New Teacher Induction team invites you to further explore the following topics through the websites listed below:
Resources on Diversity and Equity
Equity Initiatives Unit
The mission of the Equity Training and Development Team is to build capacity of MCPS instructional leaders to close the racial achievement gap and eliminate racial predictability in student achievement. Use the link to view important information about professional development opportunities being offered by the Team as well as obtaining current research and best practices related to diversity and equity.
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/departments/
development/teams/diversity/diversity.shtm
Resources on Instructional
Practices & Strategies
Classroom Management:
Resources for school-based assessment and intervention
Intervention Central offers free tools and resources to help school staff and parents to promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children and youth. The site provides academic and behavioral intervention strategies which can be downloaded for free.
http://www.interventioncentral.org/
Content Specific:
Mathematics Resources
Professor Freedman’s Math Help The website below is a great resource for math teachers. It provides information about basic math and algebra. The various links, for both students and teachers, provide information about learning styles, study skills, math anxiety, etc. There are also links that include student tutorials and math videos. www.mathpower.com
Take a math challenge at the Figure This! website of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The website below is a great resource for math students and their families. It provides families with a series of interactive, fun and engaging math challenges. Through these challenges the participants gain problem-solving skills and families also receive information on how to prepare students for continuing education. http://www.figurethis.org/
The Math Forum @ Drexel This website is a great resource for math teachers The Math Forum's mission is to provide resources, materials, activities, person-to-person interactions, and educational products and services that enrich and support teaching and learning in an increasingly technological world. www.mathforum.com
Social Studies Resources
Migration: Howard Dodson and Sylviane A. Diouf of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and The New York Public Library have compiled and edited an incredible work. You can click on the title below: In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presenting more than 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and more than 60 maps. The Web site is organized around thirteen defining migrations that have formed and transformed African America and the nation. Each migration is presented through five units:
- A narrative
- About 100 illustrations, each with caption, and bibliographical, indexing, and ordering information
- From twenty to forty research resources consisting of essays, books, book chapters, articles, and manuscripts
- Maps
- Lesson plans for teachers
In addition, each migration has a bibliography (references) and a gateway to related Web sites. Migrations can be reached through "Browse by" Migrations, Geography or Timeline. Once a migration has been selected, users can either read the narrative and look at the images, or focus on images only by clicking on "View Image Gallery." From the drop-down menu, they can elect to see all the images, or only those associated with a particular part of the narrative. All texts and images can be printed. Printer-friendly versions of the texts are available. If you have any problems connecting cut http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm and paste it to your browser address bar.
Multiple Intelligence Resources
The 3 following websites below provide an excellent overview on multiple intelligences and offer an opportunity to take short assessments to discover your learning style. The sites also provide a description of each of the multiple intelligences with suggested lesson plan ideas.
http://thomasarmstrong.com/multiple_intelligences.htm http://www.spannj.org/BasicRights/appendix_b.htm http://www.businessballs.com/howardgardnermultipleintelligences.htm
Summarizing Resources
This MCPS website below offers wonderful samples of summarizing strategies and video clips to watch. Summarizers allow students to demonstrate their learning while providing teachers with information on how to plan lessons. This site uses video streaming technology to allow teachers to see demonstrations of summarizing strategies in elementary and secondary classes in various subject areas.
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/departments/development/
resources/strategies/index.shtm
Technology Resources
Maryland Teacher Technology Standards Checklist The MCPS website offers you the ability to determine what your level of technology proficiency is by comparing your skills to the descriptive examples provided by the ffice of Information and Organizational Systems (OIOS).
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/departments/technology/techstandards/checklist/
Human Resources and Development
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