This contains different ideas of finger plays and songs that teachers can use to get the attention of their students.

This website explores the benefits of using random reward in the classroom to improve classroom management.

This is a collection of resources that can be used for behavior management in the classroom. There are different activities and printables to use.

This website lists the pros and cons of common core standards and contains articles about the recent problems.

A recent article about teaching students to question us as teachers and not blindly believe everything we tell them.

This website lists effective methods for teaching ESL that have been developed more recently and shown to work.

This is a teacher resource website, but it contains great advice for interviewing and answering tough questions.

This link connects you to a book that has answers to over 100 interview questions that are common in teacher interviews. There is a mobile version of the book as well.

This website contains tons of advice on how to make a great teaching portfolio. There are also examples.

This website contains important procedures that need to be taught during the first week of school and how to teach them.

This blog contains brain break activities that are based off of the show "Minute to Win It".

This is a big list of books that are great for the first few days of school.

This website just contains tips for how to document the behavior of students in the classroom and keep it in a record.

This website gives homemade sensory tools that could be used for students who often act out and need something to calm them down.

An example of a behavior management technique based off of the clip chart. The mini clip chart allows for the same things except that it's much smaller and kept private so the student is not embarrassed.

This site helps you download an app that lets the students know when they're being too loud and hints that they need to calm down.

This blog contains multiple resources and links to help teachers organize their classroom based on reading level.

This is another website with ideas for classroom organization. It has pictures and suggestions from teachers all around the United States.

It's a blog for teachers that has effective ideas and tips for organizing the classroom including how to change it up each year.

This website contains a lot of various advice for new teachers. One of the interesting sections contains information on current and popular topics in education.