This website explains the core curriculum standards of the state of New Jersey in each subject area. The standards are then broken down further in the content areas. For example, the subject of Language Arts is broken down into Writing, Reading, Speaking, Listening, and Viewing and Media Literacy. The website then reviews the curriculum standards for grade levels Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade.
This website is the site for the CreativeCurriculum strategy of teaching for children up to the age of five. It describes what creative curriculum is and helps teachers with strategies and ideas.
Teacher Magazine is a leading information source for k-12 teacher leaders. We cover instruction, school environment, classroom technology, curriculum, and other aspects of school reform and the teaching profession.
This video is part of a presentation by Ken Robinson on how schools might be stifling personal creativity and the true human capacity of its students. He uses some great examples as well as personal anecdotes to make his point, and is very interesting to listen to.
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual ALA event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. This year, 2008, marks BBW's 27th anniversary (September 27 through October 4).
NJ Department of Education's website provides its users with a consistent and shared set of academic and professional standards that all NJ resident teachers should be adhering to.
Teachers and educators should be familiar with the school's policies and procedures for dealing with book challenges and should be prepared to follow the procedures.
This site is really great for picking a lesson plan topic or even unit plan topics. It lists the topic, for example U.S. History, then under that there is a list of ideas.
This year marks the 27th annual celebration in support of literary freedom, the weeklong Banned Books Week is sponsored by The American Library Association (ALA).