Teacher Resources
Check out these Library Links for Teachers!
It is the Library Media Center's hope to provide a one stop shopping site for your online teaching needs and make available a method of sharing the best sites with other staff members. If you have a website you would like to add to the following list, please email Barbara Leighty.
GaleSchools.com is a free Website where libraries, teachers, students and parents will find tailored sections dedicated to each of them. Sample lesson plans, activities, fund-raising tips, and engaging projects for students.
| Biography Resource Center |
| Literature Resource Center |
| Opposing Viewpoints |
| Professional Collection |
| Student Resource Center Gold |
| Testing and Education Reference Center |
Here are some more GaleNet links...
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Galenet Professional Collection- A customized selection of journals selected by our school, to address specific areas of interest.
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Search for ERIC Digests - "ERIC Digests are short reports (1,000 - 1,500 words) on topics of prime current interest in education and targeted specifically for teachers, administrators, policymakers, and other practitioners, but generally useful to the broad educational community."
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ERIC Clearinghouses - This site links to the network of ERIC (Educational Resources Information Centers), which is an excellent source for educators of all types and grade levels.
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Teacher's Guide to the U.S. Department of Education- A Web resource that accesses the major areas of the U.S. Department of Education.
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Tired Teacher's Website- A site that provides teachers with direct source materials, lesson plans / classroom activities with a minimum of site-to-site linking.
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Big 6 - "The site is aimed at educators, administrators, parents, and anyone else interested in helping students to learn and use essential information and technology skills."
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National Center for Education Statistics - The NCES is the primary federal information bank for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States and other nations.
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The Gateway to Educational Materials "The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet!"
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Kathy Schrock: School.discovery.com - "Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning."
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Awesome Library - "Awesome Library organizes the Web with 37,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education."
Enhancing Learning Through Technology
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Education with New Technologies - A site designed to help educations develop, enact, and access effective ways of using new technologies.
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4Teachers-=- An online site for teachers incorporating technology into the curriculum.
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Classroom of the Future (NASA) - "The Classroom of the Future™ (COTF) program is helping to bridge the gab between America's classrooms and the expertise of NASA scientists."
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Coalition of Essential SchoolsCritical Issue: Professional Development
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Falling Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide - This website measures the extent of digital inclusion by looking at households and individuals that have a computer and an Internet connection.
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Knowledge Loom -"An education-focused Knowledge Loom* suggests education-minded users accessing a workspace where they can weave distributed threads of information together in such a way as to create a fabric that wears well on their own conditions, needs, and visions for excellence in teaching and learning."
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The AskERIC Lesson Plans Page- A collection of lesson plans and curriculum units from a wide variety of sources, covering a range of subjects and grade levels.
Some writing prompts using the internet
The following links connect to possible ways to stimulate writing by students. Visit these pages with the idea in mind to find ideas, quotations, and other bits of inspiration which will help your students get motivated to write regularly in your class.
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Today In History and the Today In History Archives- From the U.S. Library of Congress, each day the Library of Congress offers interesting information, images, and sound concerning historical topics.
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Collections of the National Digital Library - Full-text collections of primary resources (books, pamphlets, photographs, music, films, and more!).
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Canadian Review of Materials - This is a site produced by the Manitoba Library Association that provides reviews of currently published children's and young adult books.
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Children's Literature Association - This website supports serious scholarship and research in children's literature among professionals.
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The Children's Literature Web Guide Internet Resources- From the University of Calgary a list of Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.
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The Online Books Page - The Online Books Page is a website from the University of Pennsylvania that provides access to books that are available free on the Internet.
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Federal study- (link to acrobat file): "Long-Term Trends in Student Reading Performance" NAEP Facts, vol. 3 no. 1, January, 1998. The federal fact sheet shows that 9-, 13-, and 17-year olds are doing fairly well - at least holding their own when compared with 1971 data.
