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4Teachers: Teach with Technology

This website was created by staff members at the Advanced Learning Technologies Project at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. It's well designed, and has a diverse set of resources that will help teachers integrate technology into their classrooms. Visitors who may be on the fence about bringing different technologies into the classroom should definitely check out the...

http://www.4teachers.org/
AACTE Education Policy Clearinghouse

Provided by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), the AACTE Education Policy Clearinghouse serves as an education research guide, helping researchers locate information about educational policy issues in the US at the federal, regional, and state level. In addition, the site posts educational news items and links to relevant online publications, policy agencies, and...

https://aacte.org/
Chronic Teacher Turnover in Urban Elementary Schools

The Education Policy Analysis Archives is well regarded for its peer-reviewed articles that deal with a broad range of topics related to education policy, ranging from articles on college graduation rates to developing culturally sensitive teaching materials. One of the most recent articles will be of great interest to those with an interest in the problem of teacher turnover and attrition in...

https://epaa.asu.edu/index.php/epaa/article/view/197
Doing What Works

The U.S. Dept. of Education sponsors this Doing What Works website, which focuses on pedagogy in order to assist this nation's teachers in finding what are likely to be effective methods of teaching. To see the areas of study that are covered on the website, look to the top left side of the page. You'll find "Early Childhood Education", "English Language Learners", "Math and Science", and...

https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/
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Interactive Lectures

The Science & Education Research Center (SERC) at Carleton College provides access to high-quality teaching materials for those in the earth sciences. This particular resource offers materials designed to help teachers involve students in large and small lecture-based classes. The materials here were originally created for the Starting Point: Introductory Geology site for geology teachers and the...

https://serc.carleton.edu/sp/library/interactive//index.html
National Teacher Recruitment Clearinghouse

Founded in 1986, the Recruiting New Teachers organization is driven by their mission, which is “to raise esteem for teaching, expand the pool of qualified teachers, and improve the nation’s teacher recruitment, development, and diversity policies and practices.” It is certainly a tall order, and one that maintaining the National Teacher Recruitment Clearinghouse site helps fulfill. With a site...

https://education.utexas.edu?error=404
New Report Reveals Teachers are Unfit to Teach Assigned Subjects

All Talk, No Action: Putting an End to Out-of-Field Teaching, a recently released report by the Education Trust, highlights the troubling numbers regarding the percentage of public school teachers at the middle and high school levels who have little if any college training in the subjects they are assigned to teach. According to the report, an average of 24% of classes in secondary public schools...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2002/0823
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Pedagogy in Action: the SERC portal for Educators

The Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College is a source of excellent classroom resources, including lesson plans on science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and more. This module takes a look at the undergraduate research experience. Instructors looking to more deeply engage their undergrads are using collaborative research projects to advance student knowledge and allow...

https://serc.carleton.edu/sp/library/studentresearch/index.h...
Teacher Learning in Context: The Special Case of Rural High School Teachers

This latest paper from the Educational Policy Analysis Archives at Arizona State University addresses the often neglected question of how high school teachers in rural settings continue to develop as educators. Authored by Jay Paredes Scribner, an assistant professor of education at the University of Missouri, the study "describes from the perspective of teachers a broad view of work context that...

https://epaa.asu.edu/index.php/epaa/article/view/240/366
Technology and Education

Promoting the use of the internet and technology in education is not new. However, the use of technology, especially videos and web-based discussion groups, for teacher professional development is a recent development, spurring interest from state education policy makers, school districts and the technology industry giants. Some examples of these developments and issues to consider are examined in...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/nsdl/met/2003/0116
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