This is THE group to join for teachers or future teachers of German in America. I am planning on joing this organization as soon as possible and have been researching it for a while now. They have a lot of great opportunities for both teachers and students and lots of great advice for lessons/ the classroom, etc.
brainhoney is another onlince community specifically for teachers and their students and the parents of their students. It's a way for everyone to communicate and a wa for teachers to organize things, get tips and so on.
This website is a Teachers resource website from Scholastic. It provides teachers with lesson plans, activities, teaching strategies, book lists, etc. They are organized by grade levels.
provides free math worksheets, free math games, grammar quizzes and free phonics worksheets and games. Worksheets and games are organized by grades and topics. These printable math and phonics worksheets are auto generated.
Plenty of universities, nonprofits, organizations, museums and more post videos for the cause of education both in and out of schools. The following list compiles some of the ones most worthy of attention, as they feature plenty of solid content appealing to their respective audiences and actively try to make viewers smarter.
Pretty neat site on classroom organization, setup, hints, types of learning, etc. It shows how certain ways of setting up a classroom can affect learning. It shows ~ 15 hints on how to set up your classroom so that it is set up as a learning environment.
This is a site only for creating diagrams. It's another way of helping you organize your ideas. This could be used by a teacher who needs help in designing a lesson plan, or it could be used in the actual lesson plan to help students understand certain, confusing concepts.
This article talks about how BofA is providing an Education Grant to CMS Schools to help non-profit organizations who work towards helping at-risk youth and drop-out prevention.
This is more of a place to organize your already created lesson plans that way your school computer doesn't get so crowded or so your desk isn't a mess. They do have a link that will help you create lesson plans. Also on this website they have links to puzzles or activities for classroom ideas.
Use this as a great orginizational tool. You can manage a calendar of reminders, organize projects that are turned in electronically, and access files from anywhere. You can even add an app for your iPhone or Android phone!
This is a very well organized site that describes the differences and complexities of the german school system. Students could certainly learn a lot about how things work in Germany, as well as practice their language skills. Could be used as a homework assignment or as a discussion to discover similarities and differences between our two countries.
this website allows teachers to create worksheets, games and all kinds of things in a very short amount of time, organizing info for the user. It would be a great thing to use if the teacher is short on time, or jsut wishes to same some.
A teacher's guide to using political cartoons in the classroom at all grade levels. This web site contains an excellent collection of polital cartoons organized by artists' names and by state. This is a great tool for teaching current events and can also be included in the Language Arts, Journalism, and Art curriculum.
NCTM is a website that is very helpful to teachers to meet others and constantly learn new ways of teaching. This is a resource that takes care of the big picture of education.
Council in which math teachers and students planning to teach math can join. This is the national council but there is a local one and that is the North Carolina Council of Math Teachers.