What is Teachers for Tomorrow? This gives an overview of this whole concept.
Teach Virginia Employment Opportunities, Critical Shortage, Career Switchers, Teacher Preparation, Teacher Licensure
Virginia Department of Education
CAP Center Blog for Teachers This is my blog for teachers, and it contains the very best sites I have encountered in my ten years of creating my web site "The CAP Center.com"
CITE "Preparing tomorrow's teachers to recognize and harness the potential of technology within their content areas is seen as a vital role of teacher education institutions throughout the United States (International Society for Technology in Education..."
Teacher Tube Videos like "You Tube" for Teachers.
Learner.org "Teacher resources and teacher professional development programming across the curriculum."
Lesson Writer This site includes: user dictionaries, comprehensiion question options, enhanced class reporting features. LessonWriter is a simple, fast and free tool for analyzing texts forliteracy teaching points that automatically creates comprehensive lessons and lesson plans from any material the teacher chooses.LessonWriter tracks classes, differentiates and scaffolds instruction, and save teachers a great deal of (usually unpaid) prep time.
Designing Interactions "In the Book Bill Moggridge introduces us to 40 influential designers who have shaped our interaction with technology. The introduction and final chapter combine to describe the approach to designing interactions that has evolved at IDEO."
Teachers College Record A journal of research, analysis, and commentary in the field of education. It has been published continuously since 1900 by Teachers College, Columbia University.
Merlot Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues. Be recognized for your contributions to quality education.
The UNESCO Community of Interest on Open Educational Resources was formed in 2005 at the end of a formal Internet discussion forum on Open Educational Resources: open content for higher education
Teacher Vision TeacherVision® is dedicated to helping teachers save time. Find 17,500 pages of classroom-ready lesson plans, printables, and resources. ($39.00 per year for teachers)
Educational Games Research The main reason for inclusion in the top 10 was the impact a game had on the educational gaming field.
Web sites of the year, 2007, by Larry Ferlazzo I have begun creating “The Best…” lists, highlighting what I think are the best educational websites each year.
100 + Resources for Teaching Without Textbooks
Web Sites Useful to Teacher Cadets What would your classroom be like without your students cracking open their oversized textbooks everyday? Probably a lot more interesting, especially for the kiddies. There are so many other resources out there for teachers to use, online and off, that teaching without textbooks is becoming more and more acceptable. If you don’t believe us, scroll down this list of over 100 different resources — including websites, iPod lectures and field trips — that will encourage you to toss out your textbooks.
Smartboards This is a blog that is updated weekly and offers challenges, and links to interesting sites about technology and learning.
Library of Congress Learning Page Activities offer an interactive, "hands on" experience and focus on a specific topic, rather than broad themes. They require teacher direction, but invite students to participate.Feature Presentations look across the American Memory collections to investigate curricular themes. They include historical background, helping to tell the story behind the theme.
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