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I found this article/website to be fairly interesting. It provides some suggestions for interdisciplinary teaching, or teaching across the curriculum. I think that it is important for students to have some type of association between all of the classes they are taking. This might be difficult to do, especially in high school, but it is certainly something to think about.

This article has 6 tips to teaching and incorporating diversity in the classroom.

This website is geared more towards ESL teachers, with many helpful tips on teaching grammar, as well as information about jobs. This website also offers teacher forums.

This blog offers very insightful articles on how to improve traditional teaching methods of teaching English as a second language, and it explores language acquisition more in-depth as well. Many of these are incorporated into different strategic lesson plans.

This site looks like a great place to gather information and advice from a variety of teachers and alumni who are a part of the Teach for America program.

This article describes the use one teacher made of World of Warcraft as an outside the classroom teaching tool for reading and writing.

Dr. Garcia is very confident in his teaching practices and gives advice on how to avoid having students shut down and the process of building trust and relationships.

A website that breaks down the teaching of literature in the classroom into distinct content areas. A good site to turn to to gain some information on providing insight on teaching specific aspects of literature.

The video explains why its important to use digital tools when teaching poetry to students. Its also gives examples of poetry that would hold a greater interest for the students and gives ideas on how to get students writing poetry on their own.

This website is a branch of about.com. It updates often and is a great place for articles on general teaching issues. These issues can include lectures vs discussion, and how to integrate technology in the classroom. The page also includes links to several other helpful teaching cites.

I think this is very helpful, from lesson planning to what to do during a fire drill this website has blogs, new, and postings designed to prepare us for secondary education

A page where actual teachers personally voice their opinions on which way is the most effective way to teach ELLs.

I found this list of teaching blogs that can be very useful. It even has a description of each one so you can quickly find the blog that will best fit you.

Website that offers study guides, resources, links to children's literature, etc.

It has lesson plans, guides to teaching, links to other sites, and a lot of other great resources for the classroom.

This website is a helpful tool because it has resources for just English teachers. Whether you are trying to teach poetry or grammar, this website has tools to help you.

This site is pretty much exactly what the title implies. It is an atlas of resources for teachers, parents, and high school students. It has everything from homework help to teaching ethics.

For anyone teaching newspaper, this is a little packet of materials I've put together that talks about newspaper lingo, types of leads, and ethics. Feel free to use as a reference

This site provides definitions and context to difficult Shakespearean language, a useful tool for teaching students Shakespeare.

A really cool blog by a teacher in a low-income area. This link will bring you to the page on his blog where he has a bunch of other links to teaching activities.

Ideas on how to creatively teach grammar.