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.

When you want to learn more about the district you are applying to work in, this is a great site.

This article is about the steps that teachers need to take to create a multicultural classroom. It discusses using multicultural literature in the classroom and and the importance of helping a child be comfortable enough with their cultural background, and encouraging students to participate. An example that is used in the article, is a teacher learning a couple of words of a language that a student speaks. By doing so, the teacher is showing that they respect that child's culture.

A copy of the Teachers' Tenure document.

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

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

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

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 article is about the importance of allowing a child to "free flow" write, and stresses the importance of allowing a child to write without the pressures of grammar, spelling, etc.