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One-Stop Elementary Teaching Resource Guide

Teachers are some of the most important people in our children’s lives. Elementary school teachers are even more significant in the intellectual, social, and emotional development of our children. In today’s age of technology, many resources are available online to help elementary school teachers in a variety of ways, including classroom management and discipline, finding teaching tools, developing lesson plans, designing their classrooms, and even in searching for teaching jobs. All of these resources can help teachers be able to communicate better, understand their students’ needs, and motivate students to be the best learners they can become.

Classroom Management

Classroom Management Strategies: This website features classroom management strategies by teachers including setting classroom rules and handling cheating.
Classroom Management from NEA: Sponsored by the National Education Association, this website features various articles dealing with classroom management topics, such as breaking up fights and addressing rude behavior.
Eight Secrets of Classroom Design: This website by Scholastic offers eight secrets of classroom design, including versatility and using appealing color schemes.
Techniques for Improving Classroom Discipline: This website offers techniques teachers can use to improve discipline in the classroom, including direct instruction and monitoring.
Classroom Management: This website created by a teacher offers much information on classroom management, including ways to handle classroom situations and issues that arise.
Jill Jones’ Classroom Management Plan: Created by a teacher, this website offers her classroom management plan, from classroom goals to classroom procedures to rules and more.
Sample Classroom Management Plan: This site presents a sample classroom management plan, including room arrangement, classroom rules and procedures, and how to encourage all students.
Improving Elementary Classroom Management: This article from the Journal of Educational Research examines ways to improve classroom management in elementary classes.
Behavior Modification in the Classroom: This site offers an article on using behavior modification techniques in the classroom. Although it is focused on learning disabled students, these techniques apply to any elementary classroom management.

Teaching Tools

Education Solutions – SMART Technologies: The website of SMART Technologies, creator of the SMART Board, offers many interactive tools teachers can use in the classroom.
SMART Board: This website created by a Missouri school district offers websites teachers can use with the SMART Board in the classroom.
National Science Teachers Association Elementary Science Education: This website by the National Science Teachers Association offers articles for teachers on using and teaching science in the elementary classroom.
Starfall: This interactive website is often used by elementary teachers with students to help teach reading, spelling, and phonics.
Game Goo: This Houghton Mifflin interactive website is commonly used by elementary teachers with students to help teach reading, phonics, spelling, concepts and more.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Education Place: This website allows teachers to choose their state then access textbook support materials for subjects including history and social sciences.
The Idea Box: Targeted mainly at pre-kindergarten and kindergarten teachers, this website offers games, recipes, songs, crafts and more that teachers can use with their students.
Slide Shows for Teaching: This website offers slide shows to use in workshops and conferences for teachers, on topics ranging from the use of computers in the classroom to effective search strategies.
Kids @ Your Library Campaign Tool Kit: Sponsored by the Association for Library Service to Children, this site offers a kit for teachers to promote the use of the library among students and their families.
PBS Teachers – Resources for the Classroom: Sponsored by PBS, this site offers interactive classroom resources on various topics including Shakespeare and dinosaurs.
Landmarks for Schools: This website offers teachers information and resources to teach literacy, including images, media, raw data and more.

Lesson Plans

The Educator’s Reference Desk: This website lists lesson plans by subject and is also searchable by grade level from pre-kindergarten to grade 12.
Lesson Plans – Xpeditions: This website by National Geographic lists lesson plans by grade level from kindergarten through grade 12 on social studies topics.
Awesome Library – K-12 Lesson Plans: This website categorizes lesson plans by subject and includes The Arts, Health, Math, and Languages.
Education World Lesson Planning Channel: This website offers many lesson plans on various topics of current interest, including holidays, days of the week, and news.
Columbia Education Center Lesson Plans: This website categorizes lesson plans by subject then breaks them down into grade levels, from kindergarten through grade 12.
Discovery Education School Lesson Plans: This website by Discovery Education features free lesson plans written and submitted by teachers listed by subject and grade, from kindergarten through grade 12.
Core Knowledge Foundation – Lesson Plans: This website offers lesson plans which are free to download for kindergarten through grade 8, sorted by grade level and subject.
Math Goodies Math Lessons: This website offers a variety of math lesson plans organized by topic or unit.
McRel Lesson Plans: This website offers lesson plans organized by subject and including The Arts, Civics, Math and more.
Library of Congress Lesson Plans: This website by the Library of Congress offers lesson plans grouped by grade, theme, topic, discipline or era.

Bulletin Board Ideas

Bulletin Board Ideas: This website offers teachers information on building a bulletin board, monthly themes to use, themes about subjects and more.
Bulletin Board Ideas and Tips for the K-3 Teacher: This website features some of the best bulletin board ideas and tips submitted by kindergarten through third grade teachers.
Bulletin Boards: This website features ideas for bulletin boards in categories such as Back to School, End of the Year and General.
Attacking the Multiplication Facts: A Bulletin Board Idea: This website offers a bulletin board idea to teach math multiplication facts and factors.
Ideas for Bulletin Boards: This website offers tips, subject ideas and background ideas for bulletin boards.
Tips/Bulletin Boards: This website offers tips and ideas for bulletin boards submitted by teachers.
Bulletin Boards for Teachers: This website offers various subjects for bulletin boards, including “People Who Help Us Stay Healthy,” and “Save the Earth.”
Bulletin Board Works 4 Me: This site by the National Education Association offers tips and ideas from fellow teachers for bulletin boards.
Bulletin Board Pro: This website offers a photo gallery of bulletin board ideas, subject matter and a bulletin board contest for teachers.
Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators Bulletin Board Ideas: This website offers photos and examples of elementary school teachers’ bulletin board ideas.

Professional Organizations

Jobs

Teacher Job Center: This website lists searchable job opportunities for teachers across the United States. It also allows teachers to post their own resumes.
Teaching Jobs: This is a website for a teacher recruitment service. It has sections for those seeking teaching jobs in the United States and for schools seeking teachers.
K-12 Jobs: This site allows teachers to search for teaching jobs from kindergarten through grade 12 and administrative school positions across the United States.
Directory of Resources for Teaching Jobs: This site lists both national teacher job websites and websites advertising teaching jobs in specific states.
Teaching Jobs in the United States: This searchable site lists teaching jobs for grades kindergarten through 12 in the United States and overseas.
Elementary Teacher Jobs: This site scours Internet postings, newspapers and classified ads for jobs in elementary education and posts them.
Employment Opportunities: USA K-12: Sponsored by the University of Kentucky College of Education, this site offers links to each state’s Department of Education and its job opportunity area.
Teach for America: This site of the Teach for America Corps recruits teacher for opportunities in low-income and other communities in need of educators.
50 States’ Certification Requirements: This site by the University of Kentucky College of Education lists each state’s link for its Teacher Certification Requirements.