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Staff Room - Links & resources

 

Jobs

Resume for Educators Creators of interview-generating resumes and covering letters, with lifetime updating, since 1970.

Times Educational Supplement. One of the largest job search pages for teachers

T.E.S. with a link for job search. Search by county/country e.t.c..
Job search The world's most reccomended teacher's jobs website with around 2000 sites pointing to it.

Resources

The Canadian Teacher - Free Resources Free Stuff For Canadian Teachers is very good if you are looking for free resources. Many resources available internationally.
Primary Resources Gareth Pitchford's wonderful site for Primary Teachers
John Taylor's Freebies A new site for teachers.
School Web
This site has excellent resources for teachers, pupils and parents.
Pedago Net
THE learning material and resource centre.
Ask Eric

"Educational Information with the Personal Touch".A wealth of information and help for teachers of all experience. Brilliant!

Schools Net
News, Lessons, Revision, Jobs, Shopping. This site is a must visit.
Virtual Teacher Centre
The Virtual Teacher Centre provides a focus for information and resource materials for teachers, including support for professional development and classroom resources.
Educational links for teachers and students. Some interesting news stories too.
Lots of links for teachers.
From The Guardian. Learn.co.uk is one of the largest learning resources on the web. Use it for homework, revision, or preparing lessons.
Create your own games and puzzles or get students to do online tests.. Brilliant idea and great resource.
Rod says "As I became more and more frustrated with the teacher pages I looked at being incomplete I decidied to create my own. It's pretty simple but comprehensive"
Free resources by a teacher.
A new site that could do with some feedback and page hits.
Teachnet.com Great Site with lots for every teacher.
ACE Educational Supplies Commercial site selling resources for teachers, organised by subject or by grade.
Teachers helping Teachers Lesson Plans and educational links. More than 2 million hits on this page!
Sabine Virtual School A site containing loads of resource links . You can search for items of interest.
A game a day A site providing a game a day - use games and puzzles in your teaching.
Inkjet Cartridges USA and Canada Only. Cheapest inkjet cartridges anywhere.
   
Education World A huge site. If you enjoy wasting a couple of hours effortlessly, try this site. Amazing.
Education.com

Educational Communities for families, kids and teachers.

Education.com is the brainchild of Knowledge Adventure, award-winning developers who provide education solutions to parents and kids through more than 100 software titles in a wide range of subjects. Our site-and our sister sites in France, Germany, Ireland and England-enjoys the resources and expertise of Knowledge Adventure, and is constantly scouting out new expert resources that enhance our services.

The Creative Teaching Site Wouldn't it be nice to have inspiring, fun and informative lessons that the kids talk about for ages. Well perhaps this site can offer ideas to enhance your creativity - from dogs in the classroom to using Star Trek the Next Generation to teach language (no not Klingon).
Teaching as a work of Heart

Quote from web page:
" Hello and welcome to Teaching is a Work of Heart. If you are looking for teaching ideas, inspiration, links, lessons, units, activity sheets, virtual sites, or a laugh - you are at the right place... I have designed this site as a learning tool for myself and and as a helping tool for other teachers who love teaching children as much as I do. Enjoy! "

Masses of links - Very valuable site.

Software

Grade Keeper Shareware Grade Book Program. Simpler than most and cheap!! $20 for a single license, $100 for a site license. I would use this myself if my head of department hadn't insisted we use a different, more expensive program.

Create professional-looking word search puzzles for your students. Freeware. A Superb program.

Mathematics Worksheet Factory Lite is another Freeware program available at this site.

Hungry Frog

Play internet games with your browser. Maths, Latin, Spanish and french. Plus windows and PalmOS software. Lots for younger kids but also for older ones. For example:

EPLabSimulator (tm) Software - WinElectronic Project Lab Simulator software for Windows 95/98, Windows NT

You can create your own circuits with sounds and actions. Save and load circuits in progress. Learn as expert or beginner.

Set contains 15 built-in projects with detailed instructions, help and study questions. Built-in circuits include AND, NOR, NAND and other logic circuits as well as oscillators and circuits which introduce resistance and capacitance.

Ray's Educational Shareware

 

Great Educational Shareware and Freeware for all. Includes: Ray's Spelling and Word Games; Kids Tables and Time; Atoms, Symbols and Equations; Atoms, Bonding and Structure; Ray's Letters and Numbers and a free Reportwriting tool.

 

Allfreeware Software

 

A collection of software for teachers which I suppose are all free.

 

Atomica Personal Edition

 

 

Atomica Personal (formerly GuruNet) is a free tool that automatically analyzes the context of selected text. Using a simple, non-linked "Answer Bar" window, Atomica delivers reference information from a dictionary, thesaurus, or encyclopedia. It also provides real-time information, such as news, sports, weather, or stock quotes from online sources. It works in e-mail programs, PIMs, browsers, and other applications such as Microsoft Office. Atomica also features language translations, enhanced financial links, up-to-date weather, U.S. area codes, and more.
Free

 

Other Interests

Staffroom

A site for teachers to go and relax. Fun and informative articles, including:

A close encounter of the FE kind
"It doesn't matter how good your lesson plan is, you can't teach with your trousers around your ankles".

School Assemblies A site where teachers can freely download and submit assembly ideas, scripts and links.
School Banner Exchange A free banner exchange for school web sites
Embracing the Child About children.
Skoolbuzz - Open Forum for teachers Can I let you know that you can "POST FREE" on the news/events message board (and any of the other message boards) at www.skoolbuzz.co.uk A new site (non profit making) that acts as "an open" forum so as long as you don't swear or make overly abusive comments. Anything goes!
Help and advice on bullying issues.
Resources in Teaching
Multiple Intelligences
Ideas and theories about types of intelligence.

Student Interests

Teach-me Tuition

 

We have experienced tutors to provide private tuition in all subjects from Key Stages 2 to Degree level. Also special needs, EFL and study skills. Contact us for more information. Based in Bedfordshire.
S-Cool
A site dedicated to the students. This site has revision guides for many topics up to A level. Very useful and well laid out.
What an I do as a parent? Information on learning disabilities, learning disorders, attention deficit disorder, ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, dysnomia, speech...
Adolescence Directory On-Line Adolescence Directory On-Line (ADOL) is an electronic guide to information on adolescent issues. It is a service of the Center for Adolescent Studies at Indiana University. Educators, counselors, parents, researchers, health practitioners, and teens can use ADOL to find Web resources on various topics.