Preparation
The San Jose State University Department of English: Information on Earning a Single-Subject CredentialThe San Jose State University College of Education
How to Become a Teacher: San Jose State University College of Education Guidelines
Credentialing
and Testing
Teaching Credential, Subject Matter Competence, and Supplementary Authorization Information
for elementary, secondary and specialist teachersThe California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, California Department of Education
California Student Aid Commission: financial assistance for prospective teachers
The California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST) Homepage: The latest CBEST testing
information from National Evaluation Systems, Inc.
The
Job Market
Santa Clara County Office of EducationCalTeach: The Interactive Recruitment Network of the State of California
Statewide Ed-Join: Online Education Job Opportunities Network for the state of California
School District and School Information: searchable A-Z list of every school and district
in the state of CaliforniaEduTech Online Education Employment Search
Lesson
Plans and Guides
The Hot Potatoes site offers six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web.The M-Tech Worksheet Generator: Creates printable worksheets; allows you to make word/letter scramble, matching, and fill in the blanks exercises.
Teacher's Edition Online: This online weekly newsletter offers education news and lesson plans that include objectives, resources, and teacher preparation descriptions. It also has micro activities and practical tips on everything from classroom decor to getting organized.
TeacherServe: The National Humanities Center's Interactive Curriculum Enrichment Service for High School Teachers
EDSITEment: Online Humanities Resources for Teachers from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including resources for literature and language arts, searchable by grade level.
Schools of California Online Resources (SCORE) for Language Arts Teachers
The Busy Teachers' Website K-12
A Guide to Lesson Plan Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
A Lesson-Planning Workshop: includes templates
Creating Internet Lesson Plans: a guide for high school teachers unfamiliar with using the Internet in teaching
A Guide to Successful Lesson Plans: includes ideas for integrating the Internet into classroom teaching, as well as lesson-plan models
Teaching With Technology: Links of all kinds for educators who use technology in the classroom
Mentor Classifieds: An online database of volunteers helping teachers in the Bay Area to develop their technology skills.
The Ultimate Educational Resource Heaven: a USA Today award winning site
The Lesson Plan Resource Page: all grade levels, updated often
A-Z TeacherStuff: online lesson plans and lesson plan resources, thematic units, themes, classroom activities, teacher tips, web projects, discussion, educational ideas for K-12.
Lesson
Plan Search: searchable database of all subjects for K-12.
Multicultural
Resources
The Multicultural Pavilion: Multicultural Resources for Educators and Students
Multiculturalism, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Children's and Young Adult Books: excellent listings of multicultural books,
A Guide to Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults from the Internet Public Library
The Multicultural Publishing and Education Council Homepage
A "Webliography" of Multicultural Resources
A Bibliography of Southeast Asian Children's Books compiled by Michael M. Levy at UW-Stout
A Bibliography of Multicultural and Multilingual Education Resources compiled by Rosalie Giacchino-Baker
A Guide to Choosing Multicultural Literature for Children: an article that originally appeared in the Children's Advocate magazine
Literature for Children
Children's Literature Activities IndexA Collection of Web Sites and Online Resources for Teachers
The Children's Literature Web Guide
Children's Literature Resources from the Fairrosa Cyber Library
Children's Literature and Language Arts Resources from the Internet School Media Library Center
A Selective Guide to Reference Books in Children's Literature
The Newbery Classroom Homepage
Picturing Books: a Web Site about Picture Books
The Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents (CSBS)
The Internet Public Library Youth Division
Reading About Children's Literature: a bibliography of criticism compiled by Perry Nodelman
Kay Vandergrift's Children's Literature Page
PBS TeacherSource: ideas for teachers from Public Television, includes resources for high school literature and humanities
Literature for Young Adults
A Collection of Web Sites and Online Resources for TeachersThe Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents (CSBS)
The Internet Public Library Teen Division
Reading About Children's Literature: a bibliography of criticism compiled by Perry Nodelman
Kay Vandergrift's Young Adult Literature Page
A Young Adult Literature Bibliography
A Guide to Using Young Adult Problem Fiction and Non-Fiction To Produce Critical Readers
K-12 Resources from Random House
K-12 Teachers' Guides from HarperCollins
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
Gary Soto: A Teacher's Resource File
SCORE Teacher's Guide to Gary Soto's Short Stories
SCORE Teacher's Guide to Natalie Babbitt
A site devoted to Mark Twain from the University of Virginia
Mark Twain and American Humor. From the NEH's EDSITEment: uncover the sources of Twainís comic genius in American traditions of dialect humor and literary satire.
Huck Finn in Context, from PBS TeacherSource
A Poetry Unit for High School Teachers
Can You Haiku? From the NEH's EDSITEment: students learn the rules and conventions of haiku, study examples by Japanese masters, and create haiku of their own.
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Someone a Letter. Using EDSITEment's vast online resources, you and your students read the correspondence of the famous, the infamous, and the ordinary and use these letters as a starting point for discussion of and practice in the conventions and purposes of letter writing.
The Favorite Poem Project Site: sponsored by Public Television, includes poetry lesson plans and a page of poems by teens
PBS TeacherSource: ideas for teachers from Public Television, including Arts & Literature ideas and activities.
A Guide to Teaching With Movies
Resources for Teaching Shakespeare
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet: Probably the most complete directory of Shakespeare resources on the internet. This is an excellent place to start a search for materials on any Shakespearean topic.
"Webspeare": resources for high school teachers and students, includes curricular materials and lots of fun stuff (like a guide to learning to speak with an Elizabethan accent)
"Chill with Will": a site dedicated to helping high school students learn to love Shakespeare
Surfing With the Bard: Links to other Shakespeare resources on the Internet, including a special section devoted to Hamlet. Written by a teacher for teachers.
A Shakespeare site put together by high school students in Illinois
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
The Folger Shakespeare Library's Guide to Teaching Shakespeare for grades K-12.
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet: a complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on Internet, that includes critical, historical and biographical information and a Shakespeare Timeline, which gives the key events of Shakespeare's life and work along with related documentary evidence, a chart showing the relevant family relationships and dates.
The Shakespeare Classroom: includes resources about Shakespeare, study questions for the plays, and information about filmed versions of the plays,
A Romeo and Juliet Unit
A Romeo and Juliet Web Guide for Grade 9
The Romeo and Juliet Theme Page: links to curricular materials and instructional resources
"You Kiss by the Book." From the NEH's EDSITEment: learn how Shakespeare used the sonnet tradition to enhance his stagecraft by performing a scene from Romeo and Juliet.An In-Depth Analysis of Macbeth
A Guide to Enjoying Macbeth
An online Macbeth GuideAn online Othello Guide
Another online Othello Guide that includes lesson plans and some readings
A Guide to Enjoying Hamlet
A Short Course on Hamlet
The Hamlet Navigator Page: basic, but useful for beginners
SCORE's Guide to Hamlet
