Description/Purpose: This site is loaded with features including exciting education news and insightful commentary from experts in the field of education. This month’s cover story is a deep insight to the complexity that real teachers face in the classroom.
Author/Owner or publisher:Robert Rose
Types of Resources: Teachers.net is a collaborative publication of the teacher’s net community and features a monthly webzine, lesson plans, pedagogy, classroom crafts, recipes, inspiration, humor, and a huge collection of free printables for the classroom. Utilities: Very easy to navigate this site. Customized mail rings, and teachers.net 2.0 allows members to blog, bookmark, subscribe, and receive rss feeds through many web tools. You can also customize and set up your own teacher network.
Description/Purpose: Education World, the Educator's Best Friend, offers teachers, parents, students, administrators, and school technologists a place where they can start each weekday of the school year with a wealth of new, practical content.
Author/Owner or publisher: Gary Hopkins
Types of Resources: This amazing site offers many valuable resources that are relevant and meaningful. Educators, administrators, and parents will find printables, lesson plans, articles, many timesavers, and so much more!
Utility: Very easy to navigate and useful to all in the teaching profession.
Description/Purpose: ABC Teach is a free educational website for teachers. It provides a wealth of knowledge for educators of all levels. It is a place for teachers to find everything they are looking for with the click of a button.
Author/Owner or publisher: Sandy Kemsley
Types of Resources: Educators will find many resources for all subject areas. The site is full of lesson plans, time savers, worksheets, and more.
Utility: Easy to navigate, wonderful resources; however, several resources are restricted to members only, but it is affordable to join.
Description/Purpose: This blog site features teachers, administrators, parents, and change makers who are doing the heavy lifting in public schools. Their weekly blogs showcase new ideas on teacher development, project-based learning, classroom management, implementing new technologies, and much more.
Author/Owner or publisher: The George Lucas Foundation
Types of Resources: Educators will find many resources for all subject areas.
Utility: They link to resources, news, and ideas from around the Web..
Description/Purpose: The purpose of Intervention Central is to be a support for educators working in an RTI school. However, the interventions and ideas on the website are applicable even if you don't understand what RTI is! Find ways to help struggling students, intentional non-learners, students lacking motivation, those with behavioral struggles, etc. etc. From intervention discipline strategies to online printable resources, you'll find it here!
Creator: Jim Wright, school psychologist and school administrator
Types of Resources: Variety--academic intervention strategies, behavioral observation records and charts, lessons and best practices.
Utility: Fairly easy to navigate, however ads and text often run together making reading difficult.
Description/Purpose: The purpose of this blog is to inform and offer suggestions to educators working with children who have behavioral or emotional disorders. It also offers information on ADD and the Autism spectrum.
Creator: John Wills Loyd
Types of Resources: A wider variety of information dealing with teaching and parenting students with disabilities
Utility: Easy to navigate. A lot of information and topics that vary greatly day to day.
Life in the Classroom
Title: The Complexity Teaching http://teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/march-2010/
Description/Purpose: This site is loaded with features including exciting education news and insightful commentary from experts in the field of education. This month’s cover story is a deep insight to the complexity that real teachers face in the classroom.
Author/Owner or publisher: Robert Rose
Types of Resources: Teachers.net is a collaborative publication of the teacher’s net community and features a monthly webzine, lesson plans, pedagogy, classroom crafts, recipes, inspiration, humor, and a huge collection of free printables for the classroom.
Utilities: Very easy to navigate this site. Customized mail rings, and teachers.net 2.0 allows members to blog, bookmark, subscribe, and receive rss feeds through many web tools. You can also customize and set up your own teacher network.
Rating: 5 (contributed by Roxanne Dobbins)
Title: Education World http://www.educationworld.com
Description/Purpose: Education World, the Educator's Best Friend, offers teachers, parents, students, administrators, and school technologists a place where they can start each weekday of the school year with a wealth of new, practical content.
Author/Owner or publisher: Gary Hopkins
Types of Resources: This amazing site offers many valuable resources that are relevant and meaningful. Educators, administrators, and parents will find printables, lesson plans, articles, many timesavers, and so much more!
Utility: Very easy to navigate and useful to all in the teaching profession.
Rating: 5 (contributed by Stacy Hetzel)
Title: ABC Teach http://www.abcteach.com
Description/Purpose: ABC Teach is a free educational website for teachers. It provides a wealth of knowledge for educators of all levels. It is a place for teachers to find everything they are looking for with the click of a button.
Author/Owner or publisher: Sandy Kemsley
Types of Resources: Educators will find many resources for all subject areas. The site is full of lesson plans, time savers, worksheets, and more.
Utility: Easy to navigate, wonderful resources; however, several resources are restricted to members only, but it is affordable to join.
Rating: 4 (contributed by Stacy Hetzel)
Title: http://www.edutopia.org/blogs
Description/Purpose: This blog site features teachers, administrators, parents, and change makers who are doing the heavy lifting in public schools. Their weekly blogs showcase new ideas on teacher development, project-based learning, classroom management, implementing new technologies, and much more.
Author/Owner or publisher: The George Lucas Foundation
Types of Resources: Educators will find many resources for all subject areas.
Utility: They link to resources, news, and ideas from around the Web..
Rating: 4 (contributed by Jenee Cross)
Title: Intervention Central http://www.interventioncentral.org
Description/Purpose: The purpose of Intervention Central is to be a support for educators working in an RTI school. However, the interventions and ideas on the website are applicable even if you don't understand what RTI is! Find ways to help struggling students, intentional non-learners, students lacking motivation, those with behavioral struggles, etc. etc. From intervention discipline strategies to online printable resources, you'll find it here!
Creator: Jim Wright, school psychologist and school administrator
Types of Resources: Variety--academic intervention strategies, behavioral observation records and charts, lessons and best practices.
Utility: Fairly easy to navigate, however ads and text often run together making reading difficult.
Rating: 4 (contributed by Debb Adams)
Title: EBD Blog http://ebdblog.com/
Description/Purpose: The purpose of this blog is to inform and offer suggestions to educators working with children who have behavioral or emotional disorders. It also offers information on ADD and the Autism spectrum.
Creator: John Wills Loyd
Types of Resources: A wider variety of information dealing with teaching and parenting students with disabilities
Utility: Easy to navigate. A lot of information and topics that vary greatly day to day.
Rating: 3 (contributed by Meredith Anderson)
Title: http://kathyschrock.net/edtechblogs.htm
Description: This site features numerous links to educational blogs of all types.
Owner: Kathy Schrock
Types of Resources: Numerous links to blogs created by and for educators of all types.
Utility: Easy to navigate. Lots of information to investigate.
Rating: 4 (contributed by Cathi Hadd)