A online model curriculum in World History for middle school and high schools. It is an continuing project consisting of material and resources from K-12 teachers, collegiate instructors, and educational technology specialists. Has teaching units, lesson plans, and other resources.
Here is a website many of you may be familiar with. For those of you who are not, this contains many different videos, documents and blogs about education. This is very helpful and engaging.
This site is very useful for teachers in the Chicago Public Schools. It provides info for the Chicago History Fair and it gives tips for creating curriculum.
This is a section of the PBS website that includres resources for teachers. There are resources for all grade levels and subjects, but this is most relevant for future social studies educators at the secondary level.
This is a useful bog made up of various museums and culutral groups around the Chicago area. It promotes learning and understanding of culutral diversity by connecting these culutral centers to other institutions, mainly education. Would be a great resource for those who want to teach in Chicago
The purpose of this website is to provide the classroom with an accessible website with easy to find primary documents, which serves an especially significant purpose in a social studies classroom.
This website contains a huge amount of information for teachers ranging from news on policy issues, blogs, a job search feature, a section on technology in schools, and a curriculum/lesson plan section. I would highly recommend exploring all the different tabs at the top of the webpage as well as the subsections.
This website, linked to the Smithsonian Institute, offers lesson plans and other useful information across a wide variety of subjects, including history and english.
This website is linked with the Smithsonian Institute, and it is a good search engine for teachers looking to build lessons around artifacts found in the Smithsonian as well as other parts of American history.
The author of a book I'm currently enjoying. His website is also giving updates on his latest research on towns that are completely white. I feel these are books worth reading.
This site is obviously dedicated to the Teach For America organization. It gives great details as to what their mission is and how to go about getting involved. It is beneficial to us because we are getting closer to the day where we are going to be looking for a teaching job and this could be a good fit for some.