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Beginning Teacher Success: Online course syllabus
"Beginning Teacher Success" is designed to support beginning teachers with assignments and reading materials to guide and scaffold learning the best teaching practices.
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Mentoring
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Teaching with disturbing images
Photographs are especially powerful tools for explaining current and historical events — not least horrible or brutal events, such as war, genocide, famine, terrorism, slavery, and lynching. In fact, photographs are often used specifically to raise an...
By David Walbert.

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AFT: American Federation of Teachers
Support and advocacy resources including healthcare, legislative support, and publications, for education professionals. (Learn more)
Format: website/general
Provided by: American Federation of Teachers
Edinformatics: Guide for Teachers
A broad collection of information and resources for teachers including educational databases, employment and professional development and curriculum guides and school statistics by state. (Learn more)
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Education Week
News and articles about American education issues for teachers and administrators. (Learn more)
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Provided by: Education Week
Electronic Emissary
A web-based organization offering "telementoring" for K-12 students. Mentoring relationships typically last from six weeks to several years. (Learn more)
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Essential Science for Teachers: Earth and Space Science
A web-based professional development opportunity for K-6 teachers; course available for graduate credit. The course is composed of eight sessions related to Earth and Space Science with the intent of building a core understanding of these concepts. (Learn more)
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Provided by: Annenberg Media with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Teach4NC
To explore how to become a teacher in North Carolina, see this resource dedicated to the recruitment of teaching professionals for North Carolina public schools. (Learn more)
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Provided by: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
Teachers.net
Whether you are a student/beginning teacher, a neophyte web site builder, a first grade, substitute, or secondary school teacher, or need help planning a family math night, there is a free forum available to you on this website. (Learn more)
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