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       These sites will give you general information about education.
    Click on a category below to go to that particular list or just scroll down to browse the lists.

Main categories:
• General teaching sites
• Educational technology
• Classroom management and discipline
• Motivating Students
• Lesson plans and curriculum
• Parent conferences and parental involvement
• More sites and indices for teachers

• More teaching links (page 2)   support groups, online magazines, professional development, and teacher associations and unions.

• More teaching links (page 3)   sites for new teachers, substitutes, and teachers who use subs.

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Teaching, general

• About.com: General Education This is a great site.
• About.com: Secondary School educators   Part of the About.com education site but these pages are edited by and for high school teachers.
• Free Worksheets.com   An excellent source of worksheets and free software for teachers of many subjects and grade levels.
• Teachnet.Com   This site is mostly for elementary grades.
• Education Northwest   Chartered in the Pacific Northwest in 1966 as Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Education Northwest now conducts more than 200 projects annually, working with schools, districts, and communities on evidence-based solutions to the challenges they face.
• The Global Campus is a collaborative multimedia database containing a variety of outstanding educational materials such as images, sounds, text, and video to be used for nonprofit, educational purposes. The goal of the project is to share resources through technology by providing a central "campus" where institutions may make their resources available on the World Wide Web.
• Welcome to Teachnet.Com   "A smart list for busy teachers."
• PBS TeacherSource   Find guides to using PBS programs in your classroom.

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Education and Technology

• How to use technology for teachers.
• The WebQuest Page at San Diego State University. This site describes itself as "designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with the web. By pointing to excellent examples and collecting materials developed to communicate the idea, all of us experimenting with WebQuests will be able to learn from each other."
• Educational Web Design   This site gives educators advice on designing a web site. It does not discuss HTML. It is about layout, color and similar issues.
• WISE:, the Web-based Inquiry Science Environment, is a simple yet powerful learning environment where students examine real-world evidence and analyze current scientific controversies.
• An Educator's Guide to the Internet   For both secondary and college teachers.
• Engines for Education   To quote from the site itself: "Engines is a "hyper-book" written by Roger Schank, Director of ILS, and Chip Cleary, a graduate student of Dr. Schank, about what's wrong with the education system, how to reform it, and especially, about the role of educational technology in that reform."
• Creating Web-based Lessons from Education Service Center, Region 20, Texas.
• Electric Teacher for teachers using Microsoft Office and other MS software.
• Online Educator  
• Teacher's Tips - Internet Resources 
• EdWeb Home Page @ SunSITE USA  
• SCH TECH WEB
• Consortium for School Networking Homepage

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Classroom Management and Discipline

• Classroom Discipline Resources   One of About.com's "GuideSites", and a useful list of links.
• Love and Logic is highly reccomended for both parents and teachers. It is worth your time to investige this.
• Ask ERIC: Classroom Management   ERIC is the Educational Resources Information Center, a federally-funded national information system that provides a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues.
• You Can Handle Them All  free discipline resources from "The Master Teacher." This site is worth a look.
• Classroom Management Plan  from an experienced math teacher.
• What is your classroom management profile?   Answer these 12 questions and learn more about your classroom management profile.
• Plagiarism Resource Site   "The goal of this web site is to help reduce the impact of plagiarism on education and educational institutions. At present, it distributes free software to detect plagiarism and provides links to other resources."
• Discipline Techniques that Backfire
• Structure Before Instruction
• Teaching Help

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Motivating Students

• Motivating Middle School Students   How do you get students to cultivate a desire for success, curiosity, originality, and satisfying relationships? Middle Web has some advice, and it is not just for middle school teachers.
• General Principles of Motivation   From Honolulu Community College, this page is part of a larger site:  Teaching Tips with even more advice on motivation and teaching in general.

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Lesson Plans and Curriculum

• N.Y. Times lesson plan archive  This archive contains hundreds of free lesson plans for grades 6-12.
• The Gateway to Educational Materials Project is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and is a searchable database of many lesson plans.
• A to Z Teacher Stuff
• LessonPlansPage.com
• Education World also has lesson plans.
• Awesome Library for teachers.
• About.com's lesson plan bank
• K-12 Sources - Curriculum - Lesson Plans
• Search NWREL's Site for lessons plans.
• The LESSON PLAN PAGE
• TEACHERS HELPING TEACHERS
• TEAMS Distance Learning... for K12 Educators
• TeachOne puzzle page this is my page of links to pages that will make puzzles you can use in the classroom.

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Parent conferences and parental involvement

Hiam Ginott