Directory of New and Prospective Teachers Resources

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Sites listed in Reference/Education/Educators/K_through_12/New_and_Prospective_Teachers contain resources, advice, guidelines, help and suggestions for new teachers or those considering becoming teachers.

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Resources in This Category

• 2Schools Consortium

  http://www.2schools.org/
  School-based initial teacher training through the GTP route. UK.

• American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

  http://www.aacte.org/
  Includes news, publications, meetings, teacher preparation information, professional development, and state chapters.

• Assessing Teachers' Effectiveness

  http://www.iier.org.au/iier7/dunkin.html
  Contains information and discussion concerning the following conceptual aspects of assessing teachers' effectiveness: purposes; category of teachers to be assessed; conceptions of teachers' work; dimensions of teacher quality; approach to establishing validity of assessments.

• Hip Teacher

  http://hipteacher.typepad.com/schoolblog/
  Weblog covering the whole first year out of college as a teacher.

• Mentor Junction

  http://www.ncsu.edu/mentorjunction/
  A support environment for professionals mentoring or supervising novice teachers. Includes an integration of theory, research, and application of promising practices for promoting educator learning and personal development.

• New Teacher Center at University of California, Santa Cruz

  http://www.newteachercenter.org/
  A national resource dedicated to teacher development. Offering several support programs designed to equip the new teacher with necessary skills and support for success in the classroom.

• New Teacher Survival Guide

  http://www.dun.org/sulan/teacher/
  Includes how to get a job, teaching jokes, classroom discipline tips, and pros and cons of public and private schools.

• NewTeacher.com

  http://www.newteacher.com/
  Information about helping new teachers.

• NPR : One Year in the Life at Roosevelt High School, A Special Report

  http://www.npr.org/news/specials/roosevelt/index.html
  NPR's Robert Smith is spending a year following the students and faculty at Roosevelt High School in Seattle, Wash. -- the largest high school in the city.

• Primary Catholic Partnership

  http://www.pcp-scitt.org.uk/
  School-centred initial teacher training in the Southampton, UK area which promotes high standards of teaching and learning based on a Catholic philosophy of education.

• Rethinkingschools.org - Getting Students Off The Track

  http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/17_01/Gett171.shtml
  First-year teacher shares her experiences and insights.

• Rethinkingschools.org - Teaching to Make a Difference

  http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/17_01/Diff171.shtml
  A collection of advice to someone who is new to the teaching profession.

• Survival Guide for New Teachers

  http://www.ed.gov/teachers/become/about/survivalguide/index.html
  From the US Department of Education.

• Teach For America

  http://www.teachforamerica.org/
  TFA is a national teacher corps of recent college graduates who commit two years to teach and to effect change in under-resourced urban and rural public schools.

• Teacher Certification Information

  http://www.teacher-world.com/
  Credentialing and advanced degree information for beginning teachers, experienced teachers and administrators, as well as educator information for each state.

• Teacher Training Agency (UK)

  https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/
  An executive non-departmental public body whose purpose is to raise standards in schools by attracting able and committed people to teaching and by improving the quality of teacher training.

• The New Teacher Book

  http://www.rethinkingschools.org/publication/newteacher/NTSamples.shtml
  Selected articles from the book.

• Thoughts on Teach for America

  http://www.tfa-thoughts.blogspot.com/
  A former Teach for America corps member reflects on the program and offers advice to prospective applicants.

• What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching

  http://www.ed.gov/pubs/FirstYear/index.html
  Dedicated to the first year teacher. The site manages to articulate the primary challenges and rewards of teaching in a clear and succinct way, using the words of the teachers themselves. New and Veteran teachers respond to issues ranging from professional isolation to differences in student ability to the unexpected exhilaration of this demanding career.

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