General Teacher Resources and Lesson Planning
Teacher Vision - Great links and activities plus a lesson plan search engine. Lots of outline maps, graphic organizers and other great information for teachers.
Educator's Reference Desk - formerly the AskEric website, a great resource for lesson plans in all subject areas.
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!Yahooligans! - The web guide for kids
Teachers Network - "A national, educational nonprofit organization that identifies and connects innovative teachers exemplifying professionalism and creativity within public school systems."Education Planet - "The education web guide"
Education World - lesson plans, teacher strategies, etc.
Microsoft Education- "Learn to create rich learning experiences to power the Connected Learning Community using Microsoft Office and related products." - "Learn to create rich learning experiences to power the Connected Learning Community using Microsoft Office and related products."
Teacher's Net - "The Ultimate Teacher Resource!"
Teacher Talk from the Center for Adolescent and Family Studies
Instructor - Scholastic's Instructor magazine on-line.
The First Days of Middle School - Middle School survival guide
Education Links from Bobst Library
Teacher Magazine - from Education Week
United States Dept. of Education
Directories, Portals and Other Resources
Virtual Library - "The VL is the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the web itself. Unlike commercial catalogs, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the web, the VL pages are widely recognized as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the web."
The Open Directory Project - "The Open Directory Project's goal is to produce the most comprehensive directory of the web, by relying on a vast army of volunteer editors."
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English LanguageUnited Federation of Teachers - "...the UFT is the sole bargaining agent for most of the non-supervisory educators who work in the New York City public schools."