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This blog site by Darren Kuropatwa discusses deal issues facing teachers, including teaching methods, lesson plans, aids, and tools. The author posts about informative lessons that all teachers or prospective teachers should know. Everything on the blog site pertains to teaching and words to live by for teaching.

This website is a teaching resource page. It includes teaching resources such as, lesson plans, printables, a sharing community, a professonial development page, numerous sources for the best childrens books, and many others. Scholastic has created quality products and services that educate, entertain and motivate children and are designed to help enlarge their understanding of the world around them.

This article discusses some things that will help you get through your first day of teaching, as well as two tips that will help you get through the school year. It is a lengthy article (about five pages), and even though some of it is common sense, there was a lot of stuff that I found new and interesting.

This 48 page booklet gives you some insight on what to expect during your first year of teaching from those who have just been through it. The teachers that shared their responses, were winners of the First Class Teacher Award. Informative.

This page is about the challenges that teachers face when working with children who live in poverty areas. There are five challenges mentioned.

WWW.OFFICE.COM/SETUP BLOGS: INTRODUCTION www.office.com/setup Blogs: Microsoft Access is a database creation and management program. To understand Access, you must first understand databases. In this lesson, you will learn about databases and how they are used. You will familiarize yourself with the differences between data management in Microsoft Access and Microsoft Excel. Finally, you will get a look ahead at the rest of the Access tutorial. Watch the video below to learn more about databases in Access. WHAT IS A DATABASE? A database is a collection of data that is stored in a computer system. Databases allow their users to enter, access, and analyze their data quickly and easily. They're such a useful tool that you see them all the time. Ever waited while a doctor's receptionist entered your personal information into a computer, or watched a store employee use a computer to see whether an item was in stock? If so, then you've seen a database in action. The easiest way to understand a database is to think of it as a collection of lists. Think about one of the databases we mentioned above: the database of patient information at a doctor's office. What lists are contained in a database like this? To start with, there's a list of patients' names. Then there's a list of past appointments, a list with medical history for each patient, a list of contact information, and so on. This is true of all databases, from the simplest to the most complex. For instance, if you like to bake you might decide to keep a database containing the types of cookies you know how to make and the friends you give these cookies to. This is one of the simplest databases imaginable. It contains two lists: a list of your friends, and a list of cookies. An illustration of two lists - www.office.com/setup However, if you were a professional baker, you would have many more lists to keep track of: a list of customers, a list of products sold, a list of prices, a list of orders, and so on.

Quotations about teachers and teaching, from The Quote Garden. These are something I found online and I thought would be interesting to keep in mind, as a future teacher.

Qualities all teachers should possess!

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.

Great ideas for teachers to make writing easier for their students.

This page offers tips about what a principal looks for in a teacher and touches on things like: passion, enthusiasm, communication skills, teaching skills, etc.

This site is a collection of resources for future teachers. From about.com it complies a list of information for people interested in the teaching field. This site is provides links to teacher education sites, online communities, and other resources.

A blog that helps teachers and gives them advice on educational topics.

This is an article that discusses cursive writing, and whether teachers should continue to teach it.

This site is organized by four teachers who blog, podcast, and webcast. The purpose of this blog/podcast is to develop teacher knowledge and leadership to improve students and teachers. This is a very useful site in which all can access.

This is an amazing site by Jennifer Myers that has a lot of great step-by-step ideas about teaching language arts effectively in the elementary classroom. It includes things like reading and writing workshops.

Anything I need for teaching field trip planners, games, lessons, kid friendly websties

This is a website geared toward teachers of all different grades. It has strategies for all different types of learners. I feel a teacher or a future teacher could benefit from checking all this out!

This website offers videos for teachers that would be helpful with teaching lessons.

This website has many links to websites that give great ideas for teaching children how to write, for example, I searched around and found an idea for creative writing: students sit in circle, start a story, when time is up, pass the story along to have peer continue it.