Internet Online Course Module

Websites for New Teachers

Objective

The students will be able to identify websites that provide helpful hints for student teachers and/or new teachers.

Introduction

Do you remember your student teaching? What about your first year of teaching? Every teacher struggles to establish classroom routines, discipline policies, planning tactics, parent communication and organizational strategies. It takes many teachers a full year to find out exactly what works for them. Many times, teachers try a lot of approaches that do not work before figuring out what will be successful in the classroom.

Activity

Imagine you are a cooperating teacher to a student teacher or a mentor to a first year teacher. You want to help him or her discover what works best for him or her in the classroom. Visit the sites below to find helpful information for classroom management, routines, discipline, planning, communication and organization.

Gigglepotz.com – A wide variety of sources for all teachers.

http://www.gigglepotz.com/

Survival Guide for New Teachers – An abundance of information from the US Department of Education

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/survivalguide/

Web Sites for New Teachers – Web sites to help support new teachers.

http://www.uft.org/?fid=128&tf=810

Assignment

Using the sites provided as well as your favorite search engine, create a list of 10 links to the best sites for new teachers in your level (elementary, middle, or high school). Write a description of each site and the most helpful aspects of the site. Include the title of each site, the description, and a visible URL.

Resources ABC Teach - http://www.abcteach.com/

Sites for Teachers – The best web sites for teachers. Updated daily.

http://www.sitesforteachers.com/

Free Stuff for Teachers – (from site) Words of wisdom for new teachers.

http://www.geocities.com/skool_daze/advice.html

Rubric

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Description	Contains a brief description of the site with no specific features.	Contains a short description of the site with one or two features.	Contains a well-developed description of the site and several features.
Overall design	No spacing between descriptions, difficult to distinguish between citations.	Minimal spacing between descriptions, different citations are noticeable but not obvious	Double-spaced between entries, different citations are obvious. The project is easy to read and understand.

Michele Pierantozzi

LS 521 SP 02

3/25/02

Online Course Module