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Teaching Resources: A Web Guide for Educators

The Internet can help busy educators find valuable teaching resources for every aspect of teaching. Although there are many sites that claim to provide teaching resources, some are hard to find, some are quite expensive and some are just plain bad. This Teaching Resources Web Guide shows you where to find the best sites on the Web.

Looking for lesson plans, activities and printable worksheets for a particular subject? Visit our Education Web Guide to find specific guides for a wide range of subjects and grade levels.

Cyber-plagiarism has become a very serious and, unfortunately, somewhat common problem among students. Visit our Plagiarism Prevention Web Guide for resources to use with students on how to cite a source, and sites to help you detect plagiarism.

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General Teaching Resources

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Learning Tools for Students

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The Education Community

No one understands the daily challenges you face as a teacher better than other teachers. The Web is home to a vibrant education community made up of teachers that are happy to pool their knowledge.

Insights for the Education Community

Connect with real-life communities (such as teachers unions) in the virtual world. A group's Web site is an easy way to stay up to date with the organization's latest news and events.

As with any social networking site, be cautious about giving away personal information to strangers. And never post student names or any sensitive information about your students online without explicit parental permission.

Top Sites for the Education Community

For a teachers union or organization ...

American Federation of Teachers is a nationwide union to promote the professional needs of teachers and school personnel. Find an affiliated union group in your area, or visit the Legislative Action Center to get involved in the union's activist work.

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National Education Association aims to promote public school education. The NEA is involved in fundraising, lobbying congress, providing professional development workshops and encouraging educators to discuss and improve public education. Visit the Discussion Forums to voice concerns or seek advice from other educators or members of the NEA.

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Council of Chief State School Officers is an organization of public officials that head departments at elementary and secondary schools. Check the Web site for a list of federal programs related to education, or read press releases about what's new in education.

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To exchange resources with other teachers ...

findingEducation is a free collaborative learning tool from findingDulcinea that helps teachers find the best online resources and share them with students and colleagues. The site serves as a meeting place for educators to share insight and outstanding links, assignments and lesson plans.

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TeachAde is a social networking and resource site in one. Access is free for educators, and when you sign up you'll be able to create a profile and network with colleagues. You can also search the database of resources on the site or add some of your own to share with others.

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OER Commons is a collection of open educational resources for K-12 and college levels. Users can create profiles and share and save the resources they find online. Search by keyword or by selecting a tag in the tag cloud (a collection of keywords) near the bottom of the homepage.

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Connexions lets you develop and share modules of information with other educators. All information on the site is under creative commons license, so it can be used without worry over copyright issues. The site is geared toward upper level high school and college students.

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For message boards and communities ...

EduSpaces is an international online community of people who are passionate about education. Create a free profile, browse other profiles to find like-minded individuals and create or join a community of users to share ideas and information.

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Teacher Lingo is an online community of teachers and other educators. Post your own blog, read the other teacher and parent blogs, and share your comments. Many teachers use the site to post questions that other teachers will answer.

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Teachers.net has chat boards that are bustling with back-and-forth advice among teaching professionals. You'll also find a jobs board, e-mail newsletters and articles written by teachers around the world.

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Tapped In is an online community for K-12 teachers, librarians and administrators, and college-level educators and students. Participate in live chats with other education professionals, attend online courses, be a mentor and more.

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To start your own blog ...

Edublogs is a free community of education blogs. You won't be able to search for blogs to read, but this is the place to go if you are looking to start a blog for yourself or for students.

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