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Beginning and Pre-service Teachers 

• PRAXIS - Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers

• Creating a Teacher Mentoring Program - The NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education offers advice on developing new or improving existing mentor programs. Contents include Creating the Climate, Context, and Structure for Effective Mentoring; Selecting, Training, and Supporting Mentors; and What Protégés Need from Mentors.

• Teachers Network: New Teachers Online - Meet the Web Mentors, veteran teachers that guide discussions on a variety of topics. Click New Teacher Helpline or How To, and find information on classroom management, working with students' families, literacy instruction, as well as implementing standards, curriculum, and assessment.

• Edutopia Online: The Big List on Mentoring - Scroll down this excellent compilation of articles, including The Good Mentor; Mentoring: Recent Research Highlights; Reflections: What Constitutes a Good Mentoring Relationship; Perspectives on Mentoring; and Teachers Supporting Teachers.

• Program Design: Collaboration Through Mentoring and Peer Coaching - This site defines mentoring and provides tips for, and characteristics of, effective mentors.

• Mentoring the Mentor: A Challenge for Staff Development - Find detailed information on the challenges that schools face in implementing a mentoring program for novice teachers.

• Tips for New Teachers

• Advice for New Teachers

• Classroom Management Tips for New Teachers

• Ideas for New Teachers

• New Teachers Corner

• New Teacher's Survival Guide

• Scholastic - New Teachers

• Survival Guide

• What to Expect

• New Math Teachers

• Tips for New Math Teachers

• Georgia Learning Connections - Lesson Plan Sequences

• I Love Teaching

• Web Primer

• Diary of a New Teacher - Practitioner

• New Teacher's Place

• Teacher Evaluation

• Techniques for Better Classroom Discipline - Take a look at these 11 techniques for effective classroom management.

• Classroom Management: Prevention and Intervention - This simple and straightforward site offers concise advice on classroom management and improving your effectiveness as a teacher.

• Teacher Talk: What Is Your Classroom Management Profile? - This site provides teachers with a quiz to help determine their classroom management style.

• Classroom Management Concepts - Learn how to set and maintain realistic classroom rules and how to be an "active listener". Find out more about multiple intelligences and how to use props during play.

• Do Seating Arrangements and Assignments Classroom Arrangements = Classroom Management? - Visit this site for a close examination of the effect of seating arrangements on your ability to manage your classroom.

• Teacher Tap - Great new site for teachers

• Attention, Class!!! 16 Ways to Be a Smarter Teacher

• First Years for New Teachers

• EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: TEN CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT TIPS

• Classroom Management - Discipline

• How to Create a Behavior Contract

• Math and Science Mentoring Archives

• An Evolution of Techno-savvy in Preservice Teachers

• PBS TeacherLine - TeacherLine is an online professional development program in math and technology designed for pre-service and veteran teachers alike.

• Literacy 101:A Fusion Cuisine Approach

• A Hotlist on One-Computer Class

• One Computer Classroom

• Beginning Teacher Toolbox

• New Math Teachers

• Teach Net - For New Teachers

• New Teachers Corner

• I Love Teaching

• How to Create a Behavior Contract

• Advice for New Teachers

• Survival Guide for New Teachers  - How New Teachers Can Work Effectively with Veteran Teachers, Parents, Principals, and Teacher Educators

• New Teacher.com

• Advice from Harry Wong

• The First Days of Middle School  - This Web site contains a collection of resources designed to support new teachers during the first difficult weeks and months of their classroom careers.

• Helpful Hints for Beginning Teachers

• Study Guides and Strategies  -- a website devoted to improving students’ success in learning.  Contains over 70 pages of practical suggestions, -- time and stress management; basic skills in reading, writing, and classroom participation; test preparation and test taking.  Translated (in whole or part) in eleven languages from the University of St. Thomas’ (Minnesota) Learning Center.  

• Classroom Management - Discipline

• You Can Handle Them All - Discipline Help

• Teaching Tolerance

• The Behavior Home Page

• Behavior Management

• Discipline Help    great resource  to deal with children and their behavior. Learn how to handle over 117 different behaviors, and how to change unacceptable behavior to acceptable behavior.

   

   

 

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