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EDUCATION WEB SITES

See the Education Department homepage for a description of Siena's program.

This page focuses on web sites of interest to students in Siena’s Teacher Certification Program, as well as practicing middle and high school teachers. Disciplinary sites with significant lesson plan content are noted. A separate lesson plan list includes web sites that are either multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary in content.
 
Metasites (Websites) Middle School Focus
Professional Associations Teaching in the Disciplines
United States Government Databases
NY State Government & Professional Organizations Education Journals
State Standards  


Metasites

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators   Includes links to hundreds of lesson plans.
Multicultural Education Resources at Siena College

Professional Associations


American Association of School Librarians
American Federation of Teachers
National Association of Secondary School Principals
National Association for Supervision of Curriculum Development
National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)
National Education Association


United States Government

National Center for Education Statistics
U.S. Department of Education


New York State Government and Professional Organizations

Board of Regents
New York State Education Department
New York State School Boards
New York State United Teachers

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State Standards


Certification Requirements for 50 States (University of Kentucky)

Middle School Focus

Middle Web
National Middle School Association

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TEACHING IN THE DISCIPLINES


The web sites listed below are designed primarily for middle and high school teachers, but will also be useful to college students studying to become teachers. For additional web sites related to research in a specific discipline, choose a subject (for example, English or History).

Business

Marketing Education Association
National Business Education Association

English

Mrs. Donn’s Free Language Arts Lesson Plans & Activities for Kids & Teachers
National Association of Teachers of English

Foreign Languages

American Association of Teachers of French
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers
Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

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Literacy

International Reading Association
Literacy Matters
Literacy Web


Mathematics

Art of Problem Solving
Association of Mathematics Teachers of New York
Math Forum @ Drexel Good source for lesson plans.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
National Science Teachers Association Covers mathematics education. Includes links to lesson plans and other resources.

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Science


American Association of Physics Teachers
Frank Potter’s Science Gems
National Association of Biology Teachers
National Science Teachers Association Includes links to lesson plans and other resources.
Science NetLinks
Science Teachers Association of New York State
U.S. Geological Survey Educational Resources

Social Studies

The Digital Classroom (National Archives)  Includes teaching with documents lesson plans.
Digital History
The Learning Page(American Memory Project, Library of Congress) Includes lesson plans.
National Council for History Education
National Council for the Social Studies
National Women's History Project
Social Studies for Kids
Teachers Oz’s Kingdom of History
Teaching Tolerance (Southern Poverty Law Center)
Women in World History

Lesson Plans

Discovery Channel Lesson Plans Library
Education World
EDSITEment marco polo (National Endowment for the Humanities)
Lesson Plans and Activities (Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning)
New York Times Learning Network
PBS Teacher Source
RETANET: Resources for Teaching about the Americas
Teachers Helping Teachers

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Databases

A list of databases relevant to Education.

Education Journals

Use when you have a citation and want to know if Siena has the journal.
Print and electronic journals for Education


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