Faculty Teaching Aids

  • 4Teachers - free tools to create web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and calendars; also tools for student use and professional development resources.
  • Bookshare.org - gives print disabled people in the U.S. legal access to over 32,300 books and 150 periodicals that are converted to Braille, large print or text to speech audio files.
  • ClassBlogmeister - free tool facilitates a classroom blog which requires teacher approval of all student-generated content.
  • EduHound - Clipart, templates, print and web resources.
  • Education World - The "educator's best friend" - a database of 56,000 sites.
  • EdWeb - a (free) professional social network for the education community.
  • Enchanted Learning - many free classroom teaching aids.
  • Global Schoolhouse - resource for global project-based learning, problem-based learning, and online collaborative learning.
  • Massachusetts Agression Reduction Center - Providing Bullying and Cyberbullying Research, Programs, and Resources for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
  • Read Write Think - Internationad Reading Association - "providing educatiors a students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction."
  • PBS TeacherSource - high-quality preK-12 educational resources suitable for a wide range of subjects and grade levels. Lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations correlated to state and national educational standards and tied to PBS' award-winning programming.
  • Resources for educators - thousands of links to lesson plans and other resources; includes lesson plans and resources unique to the site.
  • Rethinking Schools - nurturing a belief that teachers, parents, and students are essential to building a movement to go fetch a better future.
  • MiddleWeb - reform-oriented resources for educators, parents, and public school advocates working to raise achievement for all students in the middle grades. Includes hundreds of articles and links about curriculum, teaching strategies, teacher professional development, parent involvement, classroom assessment. Supported by Stenhouse Publishers, and by the volunteer efforts of members of the MiddleWeb Community.
  • Scholastic Home Page - website of Scholastic, the largest publisher and distributor of children's books in the world.
  • Teacher Magazine - a publication of Editorial Projects in Education Inc, a nonprofit organization whose primary mission is to help raise the level of awareness and understanding among professionals and the public of important issues in American education.
  • Teachers Net - to allow teacher-users to contribute the content and direct site development; to utilize the Internet to harness the collective intellect and wisdom of the worldwide teaching community; to minimize costs to the greatest extent possible through automation, and; to never charge teachers for using our resources.
  • The Journal - dedicated to informing and educating K-12 administrators, technologists, and tech-savvy educators to improve and advance the learning process through the use of technology.