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Simple but to-the-point, this website provides helpful tips for teachers, including ideas for lesson plans and tools to use in the classroom.

If you are a creative writer and haven't heard of nanowrimo, you need to check it out. It is a website that spurs writers on, through word goals and inspirational e-mails, to write a novel in a month. It could also be useful if you teach a creative writing class in the future. Effective writing teachers are writers.

According to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, 1.5 million new teachers will be needed over the next decade

This site gives free lesson plans and resources for teaching with technology. Good for people who are a little slower with technology things!

This site is a starting point if a teacher wished to use graphic novels in the classroom, providing ratings, journal reviews, and ideas for classroom use.

THis twitter feed is from Mr. Teach, throughout his daily posts, though they are funny, they give a more realistic sense of what being in the class room is like

This video gives statistics on how education has improved because of teachers. It is motivational and shows how teachers can make a difference.

A video concerning technology in the classroom and how it affects the teachers of today and the ones of the future.

Bulletin boards seem like something so small, but they help frame the feeling of your classroom and make the room more inviting and fun. This site has a tone of ideas for them.

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

This is a website that offers resources, lesson plans, and ideas for teaching reading and writing up to a middle school classroom. This is important in teaching the basics of these skills

This website will particularly be beneficial to my own lesson plan creation and professional development. The website offers a multitude of activities and strategies for teachers to use. In addition, it offers online professional growth training.

Classroom201X is a blog that has amazing resources for smartboards. So often smart boards go to waste because teachers don't know how to use them or don't know what to use them for. This blog is a great resource.

This is a little bit of current events about an upcoming conference in Beijing. It;s featuring a Leadership Workshop and Student Summit.

The strategies themselves might seem like common sense, but the explanations that back them are solid and give decent food for thought. It's also comforting to know that this teacher backs these methods after 17 years and after teaching many diverse students and subjects.

This is a really social networking site exclusively for teachers to share lesson plan ideas. You don't have to become a member to see some of the cool ideas other teachers have shared.

This is a great tool for teachers because it allows them to search for poems by specific author, title, or theme as well as giving audio clips for many of the poems. It also has resources for both teachers and students.

This site is a favorite of mine. You can create a profile and log all the books you have read, are reading, or want to read as well as give them ratings. For English teachers it is a great resource because it provides thousands of reviews on books you might be interested in teaching. It also has lists of books such as "new authors to watch for", "best young adult books", and of course the humorous ones such as "sexiest immortal males of all" might also give you a good laugh. There is also trivia, quizzes, information on authors and more...

We've all heard of blogs, but this site has twisted blogs to make them a little more creative and fun and coined them glogs. They are basically kind of like an online bulletin board where you can upload videos, images, text, etc. It is a great alternative teaching method for teachers and can be a new way for kids to learn/post information, too.

This website offers a variety of tools for teachers such as classroom management, teaching tips, and different printouts.

This website offers helpful tips for new teachers. It gives information that may be beneficial during the first day of class.