Early Childhood Education Internet Resources

Within this page, you will find a very helpful list of internet sites dedicated to educators and those aspiring to be educators. You can find sites for electronic magazines, teacher bulletin boards, the national and state education boards, along with a plethora of other useful sites that are especially geared toward early childhood education majors.

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STUDENTS and EDUCATORS: If you know of some internet sites that you find very useful for preservice educators that are not listed below, please feel free to e-mail me with those WWW addresses!

[ Assessment and Evaluation | Additional Resource Links | General Sites | Lesson Plans | Online Periodicals | Organizations ]

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Assessment and Evaluation

National Center for Fair & Open Testing: The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) is an advocacy organization working to end the abuses, misuses and flaws of standardized testing and ensure that evaluation of students and workers is fair, open, and educationally sound.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation: The ERIC®Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation seeks to provide balanced information concerning educational assessment and resources to encourage responsible test use.

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Additional Resource Links

Study Web: Study Web, known as "The Learning Portal" provides links to just about any area of interest in education. It is not only an excellent reference for students, but provides great ideas for educators to use in the classroom. No subject has been left untouched with this site's reference to over 88,000 quality URL's!

Internet School Library Media Center: This electronic library provides online resources that are of interest to librarians and teachers who need ideas and information for the classroom.

Web Resources of Public Schools of North Carolina: This site contains educational resources on the web, submitted and evaluated by North Carolina teachers and education consultants.

American School Directory: This is the Internet gateway to all 106,000 American public K-12 schools.

Education Resources Online

Lesson Plan Sites: This is a very comprehensive listing of the Internet's most useful lesson plan sites.

The Children's Literature Web Guide: This site provides internet resources related to books for children and young adults.

Yahoo!'s Teaching Page: Yahoo! provides a comprehensive listing of internet resources for educators of all levels.

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General Sites

The Awesome Library: This site provides very useful resources for teachers & students and parents. Check out their library of lesson plans and activities for all the discplines and their multidisciplinary section, which covers thematic units.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education: This branch of ERIC addresses all issues pertaining to early childhood education.

AskERIC: AskERIC is an Internet-based information service for educators, parents, and anyone else interested in education, and contains extremely valuable information.

Early Childhood Education On Line: This site offers support and opportunities for information exchange to all educators: families, teachers, caregivers, and others interested in providing quality care and learning situations for young children birth through 8 years, and exists to promote and facilitate information management and exchange, to serve as a resource and benefit for all children, their families, and all people who help them grow and learn.

Education Resources Online

microsoft.com Education: For those of you who are interested in staying abreast of education and the integration of computer technology, stay in tune with Microsoft. They have the latest news in technology in education.

The History of Education site: This, site, produced out of the Netherlands, is an international archive of links and source materials about the history of education & history of childhood.

The Why Files: The Why Files explain the science behind the news with personality and punch, making complicated issues - from DNA fingerprinting to electric cars - clear and compelling.

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Education Resources Online

Lesson Plans

Columbia Education Center Lesson Plans: These lesson plans were created by teachers for use in their own classrooms, and CEC has comprised them for public use.

Connections+: Connections+ consists of Internet resources--lesson plans, activities, curriculum resources--linked with corresponding subject-area content standards.

The Lesson Plans Page: Home of one of the largest collections of lesson plans on the Internet! Accessible with or without Java (Java is more convenient).

Teachers Helping Teachers: An excellent source of free lessons plans contributed by very experienced educators.

Teachers.net Lesson Bank: This site, which is a division of Teachers Web, provides teacher-made lessons that cover all parts of the curriculum for all grade levels.

AskERIC Lesson Plans: AskERIC provides one of the most comprehensive sources for finding lesson plans online.

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Online Periodicals

Teacher Magazine: This online version of the popular, Teacher Magazine, provides current articles that are found in the magazine, as well as the most up-to-date information of interest for educators.

Education Week on the Web: This online version of the famous magazine provides all the current information found in the printed periodical electronically. This site also provides daily news not found in the printed magazine, and advertises for educational services and products.Education Week archives can also be found at this site.

NCTM Journals: This page, supported by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), provides a complete listing of journal links dealing with all levels and types of mathematics.

Educational Leadership: This online publication is best known for its theme issues on current educational trends and is useful for all concerned educators.

Instructor Magazine: This journal is maintained by Scholastic, and it gives valuable ideas for thematic units, assessment, and other helpful resources for the early childhood educator.

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Organizations

STUDENTS & EDUCATORS! Keep in mind that many of the web sites of these wonderful organizations offer FREE useful resources for lesson plans, classroom management, assessment, and MUCH MORE!

National Assocation for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)

Professional Organization for Childhood Education (PACE)

National Education Association (NEA)

American Federation of Teachers (AFT)

National Black Child Development Institute

Association for Childhood Education International

Georgia Association of Educators

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