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Georgia-Specific
Resources/Employment
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Certification
Requirements for 50 States -In an effort to facilitate the movement from one state to another, the UK College of Education collected teacher certification requirements for the 50 States. |
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Georgia Department of Education
-Home page for the Georgia Department of Education. Includes system guides, curriculum, directories, and calendars. |
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Georgia
Learning Connections -The Georgia Department of Education's curriculum Web site integrating the Quality Core Curriculum standards, lesson plans, Web resources, assessments, plus thousands more resources for Georgia teachers. |
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Georgia
Professional Standards Commission -Home page for the Georgia Professional Standards Commission, Educator Certification section. |
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Georgia Teachers Organization
-Home page for the Georgia Teachers Organization. Includes links, message board, plus information about education issues before the Georgia Legislature. |
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HOPE Scholarships
-Home page for the Georgia HOPE scholarship program, this web site provides information about eligibility, deadlines, and statistics about this program. |
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National Teacher
Recruitment Clearinghouse -Home page for the National Teacher Recruitment Clearinghouse. It also includes current news in education. |
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Teach
Georgia -The official teacher recruitment web site for Georgia's public schools. |
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Assessment
& Tests
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Buros Institute of
Mental Measurements Test review index. |
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Eisenhower National
Clearinghouse: Assessment -Sponsored by the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse, this website provides resources in the areas of aligning assessment with learning, alternative assessment, classroom assessment, and standardized testing. |
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National Center on Educational
Outcomes (NCEO) -The National Center on Educational Outcomes provides national leadership in the participation of students with disabilities in national and state assessments, standards-setting efforts, and graduation requirements. |
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National
Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) -The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as "the Nation's Report Card," is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas. |
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Objective
Test Construction -From Cornell University, information on how to best construct object tests. |
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-Free resource for teachers to create rubrics. |
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Student
Plagiarism in an Online World - Article on student plagiarism, includes useful detection methods. |
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Children's
Literature
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Authors and Books
from Scholastic -Provides author and book index along with writing tips from authors. |
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Children's & Adolescent Resource Clearinghouse -A great resource sponsored by Indiana University. |
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Children's
Literature Association -The Children's Literature Association is devoted to promoting serious scholarship and criticism in children's literature. This site also has great links for young adult and children's literature cultural links. |
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Georgia
Children's Literature Website -Includes information on how your school can participate in the Georgia Children's Literature Book Award programs along with past book award winners and nominees. |
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Internet Resources - Children's Literature -Compiled by the Association of College and Research Libraries, this selective list of children’s literature sites should be of interest to the practicing teacher and librarian as well as to the student and scholar of children’s literature. Intentionally excluded from this bibliography are Internet resources in the area of young adult and adolescent literature. |
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Index
to Children's Book Authors & Illustrators
-Internet School Library Media Center's index to author and illustrator Internet sites. The ISLMC is a meta-site designed to foster easy access to curriculum related sites for teachers, school librarians, parents and students. |
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Nineteenth
Century Children's Literature -Edited by J. Barr, this site provides a searchable bibliography of nineteenth century children's literature. |
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Comparative
Education
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Best Practices in Education -Best Practices in Education is a non-profit organization that transfers to the US effective mathematics education practices from abroad to improve teaching and learning in pre-k to grade 12 classrooms. |
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International Bureau of
Education -Sponsored by UNESCO, a main focus of the International Bureau of Education is the promotion of dialogue on educational policies. |
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International
Comparisons in Education
-Through student assessments, surveys of adults in the workforce, and the development of international indicators on education systems around the world, NCES examines education in the United States and other nations. |
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Directories/Web
Guides
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Argus
Clearinghouse for Education -The Argus Clearinghouse was one of the first projects on the Internet to list and categorize resource guides. |
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-Awesome Library organizes the Web with 24,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education. |
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Education
Index -An annotated guide to education-related sites on the web. |
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Education Resource
Organizations Directory -This directory is intended to help you identify and contact organizations that provide information and assistance on a broad range of education-related topics. |
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Educational
Policy Studies: WWW Resources -The University of Illinois has gathered in one place a variety of web resources students of educational policies studies would find useful in their field. |
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Education World
-Free site includes: a search engine for educational web sites only, original content, including lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts, daily features and columns, and employment listings. |
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EduHound
-EduHound is a highly specialized educational directory with built-in resource links offered free to educators, students and parents. |
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Eduseek
-Eduseek is a portal to millions of educational web sites. |
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-The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet. |
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Library
in the Sky -A database of interesting and useful educational web sites for those involved in education. |
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Early
Childhood Education
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Earlychildhood.com
-Professional resource for teachers and parents. |
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ECRP: Early Childhood Research
& Practice -An internet journal on the development, care, and education of young children |
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Handwriting
for Kids
-Lesson with simple steps on how to write the numbers, letters, and sentences. |
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Literacy Center -Standards-based Play and Learn lessons have been reviewed by the California Learning Resource Network and have met compliance criteria for use in California schools. Parents and teachers in every state in the United States, and in more than 65 countries around the globe, are currently using these dynamic exercises. Includes English, Spanish, French, and German curriculum. |
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ReadyWeb -ReadyWeb is an electronic collection of resources on school readiness sponsored by the Early Childhood and Parenting (ECAP) Collaborative, College of Education, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
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Educational
Psychology
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Celebrities
in Cognitive Science -Writings by and about leading thinkers in cognitive science, and critics and observers of the philosophy of mind. |
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Educational
Psychology Links -Excellent compilation of www resources from Valdosta State University. |
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Jean Piaget Society
-The Jean Piaget Society, established in 1970, has an international, interdisciplinary membership of scholars, teachers and researchers interested in exploring the nature of the developmental construction of human knowledge. |
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School Psychology
Resources Online -Research on learning disabilities, ADHD, functional behavioral assessment, autism, adolescence, parenting, psychological assessment, special education, mental health, and more. |
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Theory into Practice (TIP)
-The database contains brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. These theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts. |
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ERIC
System & U.S. Federal Government Sites
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Digest
of Educational Statistics -The Digest is an annual compendium whose primary purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from kindergarten through graduate school. |
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ERIC (Formerly EDRS) -Now a free service from the Institute of Education Sciences and the Department of Education. |
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Educator's
Reference Desk -The Educator's Reference Desk provides a search interface to the ERIC Database, providing access to over one million bibliographic records on educational research, theory, and practice. |
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-Information on the educational reform bill signed by President George W. Bush on January 8, 2002. |
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U.S.
Department of Education
-Home page for the United States Department of Education. |
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U.S. National Center for Education
Statistics -The NCES is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to the United States and other nations. |
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U.S. National Library of Education
-The world's largest federally funded library devoted solely to education. |
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Gifted
Education
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-Programs for teachers and students, resources. |
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History
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19th Century
Schoolbooks
-The Nietz Old Textbook Collection is one of several well-known collections of 19th Century schoolbooks in the United States. |
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Bibliography
of the History of American Education |
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History of American
Education Web Project
-It was originated and is currently maintained by Professor Robert N. Barger. It is dedicated to F. Raymond McKenna, longtime Professor of Philosophy and History of Education at Eastern Illinois University. It has been designated as an "Internet Site of the Day" by THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION and also a selection of the Internet Scout Report for the Social Sciences. |
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The New England
Primer -The most commonly used textbook in the United States for over 100 years. |
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Instructional
Technology
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Focus on Technology -Information on technology in the classroom from the National Education Association. |
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Instructional
Technology Connections -Instructional technology web resources from the University of Colorado at Denver. |
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InTRO: Instructional Technology
Online |
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The
Node Learning Technologies Network -The Node has launched a series of learning guides designed to give teachers practical advice in using technology to teach. |
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Literacy
Resources
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Guys Read -A literacy initiative for boys. |
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-The NIFL provide national leadership regarding literacy, coordinate literacy services and policy, and serve as a national resource for adult education and literacy programs. |
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Middle
Grades Education
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MiddleSchool.Net -This site for educators has been developed and is administered by Judy Horn, an instructional technology, principal specialist with the Governor's Best Practice Center of the Virginia Department of Education. |
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MiddleWeb: Exploring Middle
School and Middle Grades Reform -MiddleWeb provides a wealth of resources for schools, districts, educators, parents, and public school advocates working to raise achievement for all students in the middle grades. |
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News
top |
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Education Headlines -Direct links to education and math- and science-related articles from newspapers and other sources around the nation. |
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Ed.Net
Briefs -Educational news and resources. |
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Education Week on the Web
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Organizations
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American Educational Research
Association (AERA)
-AERA is a prominent international professional organization with the primary goal of advancing educational research and its practical application. |
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American
Federation of Teachers
-The ATF represent one million teachers, school support staff, higher education faculty and staff, healthcare professionals, and state and municipal employees. |
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Georgia
Association of Educators -An affiliate of the NEA. |
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-NCATE is a coalition of 33 specialty professional associations of teachers, teacher educators, content specialists, and local and state policy makers. |
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Parent
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top |
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National PTA
-National PTA is the largest volunteer child advocacy organization in the United States. |
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Philosophy
of Education
top |
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The Center for Dewey
Studies -By virtue of its publications and research, the Center has become the international focal point for research on Dewey's life and work. |
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Democracy
and Education -Electronic version of this book by John Dewey. |
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-Information about the Society, its services, history, and publications, how to join the Society, and links to Internet resources relevant to the Philosophy of Education. |
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Reading
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Center for the Improvement
of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA) -This site includes a repository for publications that we believe will be useful to researchers and practitioners in the field of early literacy. |
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International Reading Association
-The International Reading Association is a professional membership organization dedicated to promoting high levels of literacy for all by improving the quality of reading instruction, disseminating research and information about reading, and encouraging the lifetime reading habit. |
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Issues in
Literacy Development -Developed by John J. Pikulski and J. David Cooper, this document summarizes the best available research and professional expertise to help teachers provide high-quality literacy instruction for students from kindergarten through grade eight. |
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Learning
to Read - Compiled by John Nemes, this site offers resources for language arts and reading research. |
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Phonics
Online -This site contains numerous resources related to phonics instruction, including a phonics toolkit. |
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The Reading
Wars -Information on reading programs for middle grades students. |
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Secondary
Education
top |
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National
Science Education Standards -From the National Science Teacher's Association. |
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-From the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. |
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Standards
for the English Language Arts -From the National Council of Teachers of English |
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Special
Education
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-Web site on learning disabilities for teachers, parents, and other professionals. |
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Special
Education Resources -Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI) is a collection of Internet accessible information resources of interest to those involved in the fields related to Special Education. |
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| Planning
& Implementing Instruction
top |
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Academic
Info, Education Gateway - Directory of online teaching & professional development resources. Sections include education digital library, distance learning, teacher training, organizations, teaching with technology, school librarianship, and resources by subject. |
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Copyright
Resources K-12 -Special information for teachers on the use of copyrighted materials. |
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DocuSeek Film & Video
Finder
-DocuSeek is a search site for independent documentary, social issue, and educational videos available in the U.S. and Canada. |
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Federal
Resources for Educational Excellence -Educational resources for various subject areas including vocational education. |
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Gateway -Searchable database of high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the internet. |
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-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. |
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Teaching with Historic
Places -Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) uses properties listed in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. TwHP has created a variety of products and activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom. |
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Teachwithmovies.com -Recommends movies based on subject area. Premium access includes learning guide access. |
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Brenau University Trustee Library,
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