Teachers
Follow links or download articles below OR click here to read articles on this blog about teaching.
Web Links: (a few of these links had been broken but I fixed them 10/25/2010)
The Teacher’s Lounge: Teaching Articles and searchable archive
Articles about Dealing with Parents
The Teacher’s Lounge: On Homeschooling
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/index.html
http://www.juliantrubin.com/fairprojects.html (Science Fair Projects)
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions
Go to this site for over 300 free lesson plans, maps, activities and more. Lesson plans are given by grades ranging from K-12.
http://www.educationworld.com/ Click on one of these bubbles: lesson planning, technology, school issues, etc., and lots of information shows up! On the lesson planning page, on the left hand side, you will find a list of the top 10 featured lesson plans. Also on this page is a link to Worksheet World…a library of printable resources.
http://www.transitionsabroad.com/publications/magazine/0409/teaching_as_an_international_career.shtml Teaching as an international career: what are international schools looking for in a teacher?
TeAchnology.com provides free and easy to use resources for teachers. There are many freebies available, such as: 28,000 lesson plans; 6,600 printable worksheets, games, downloads, teaching tips and themes, preformatted rubrics, printable generators, reviewed sites, and more. For $30.00 a year, they also offer many more worksheets and other helps. They offer many free rubrics which are organized by subject and category. For example, if you have difficulty assessing your child’s writing ability, check out the rubrics for language arts.
The Story Starter provides 345,935,040 creative ideas for writers of all ages. All of the story starters are randomly generated. The story starters can be used for short stories, novels, plays, scripts, or just for fun. With a click of a button (and the help of the internet) your 6th-12th graders have access to a ton of new writing ideas.
http://www.hometooling.org/ “a trusty tool for strengthening family stability.”
Kidology– is a site dedicated to encouraging and equipping those who minister to children. There are movie reviews, book reviews, suggested materials, and more. Once you get on the webpage, there are links down the left side to different “zones.”
Articles:
Note: Click on the article link, then click on the document icon to download the document. Some documents are available to read at the bottom of this page. Many articles can be read on this site by typing in the article name in the search box or click on a category to find them. Note: Downloaded versions are in newsletter style with clip-art, whereas full articles for reading on this site are in plain text.
Things to consider in looking for or becoming a TCK teacher
First Year Teaching Struggles (download) or view onsite here
