Credentialing Support

State Resources

California Commission on Teacher Credentialing - A web site dedicated to California public school teaching credentials.

California Department of Education - California's Lead State Education Agency and Co-Sponsor of Statewide BTSA Programs.

California Pre-Intern Program

California Internship Teacher Preparation Programs

California Teacher Recruitment Centers

County Offices of Education with Pre-Intern Programs
Alameda Orange Santa Barbara Contra Costa Placer Santa Clara Imperial Riverside Santa Cruz Kings San Benito Solano Los Angeles San Francisco Stanislaus Marin San Joaquin Tulare Merced   San Luis Obispo   Ventura Monterey   San Mateo   Yuba

Testing Information

ETS-Teaching and Learning Division -The place to find out about some of the required tests for licensing.

National Evaluation Systems - CSET, SSAT and MSAT testing


Curriculum and Classroom Management

Classroom management can be one one of the most difficult areas for new educators. There are no generic management skills that can be easily adapted to all situations. New teachers must adopt techniques that fit not only their own teaching styles but fit the needs of the age group, ability and temperament of their class. This page contains links designed to assist new, as well as experienced educators with time and paper management, classroom management techniques, parent communication skills and stress management.

Time and Paper
  • Paper Control - How to organize classwork and homework.
  • Time management - A list of activities for students who have completed work early.
  • Teaching Tips - If you're just starting out as a teacher or if you are a veteran teacher, this site will have lots of timesaving & sanity-saving ideas for you!
Classroom
Parent Communication

SST/Child Study Team
A SST/Child Study Team is composed of parents, teachers, a psychologist and the school principal, who all meet together to assess, evaluate and plan strategies to help an individual student.

Stress
   

School Events

All teachers, new and experienced, have many extra jobs to do in their time of careers. Events such as back to school nights, open houses, report cards and parent/teacher conferences take much time in planning. Our goal is to support teachers with all these events they have to face throughout the year. We will provide discussion groups, the latest parent/teacher conference guides, and samples of report cards and progress reports.   First Day of School
  • The First Day of School Foundation - The First Day of School Holiday is an easy, effective and inexpensive way to improve education by encouraging parental involvement and community support.
  • New Teachers - This site has a wide variety of tools and lessons to use on the first day of school as well as throughout the year.
Back to School Night
Parent Teacher Conferences
Report Cards / Progress Reports
  • Report Designer - This is an excellent teacher resource for writing student progress reports in phrase or paragraph format. Find thousands of comments to match your curriculum learning outcomes.

Curriculum Resources

The Pedagogy in Practice video case studies include an extensive set or math and science resources along with over 200 downloadable pdfs. 

Language Arts
Math
Music
  • Mostly Music is a great site that has information about vocabulary, instrumnets, performing arts, music charts, museums and even music jokes.
Physical Education
Science
  • Delta Education - Scientific products, videos, and software for hands-on learning
  • Curriculum Associates - Process based activities that correlate to National Science Education Standards for purchase
  • Edmund Scientifics - Catalog for science and engineering enthusiasts
  • GEMS - Great Explorations in Math and Science - Well researched and easy to follow teacher's guides and handbooks. An excellent resource for activity based science and mathematics from the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley.
  • A site from the Exploratorium in San Francisco that has examples of Science projects
  • Eisenhower National Clearing House provides science lessons, plans and activities
  • The Environmental Education Network
  •  The American Museum of Natural History - Lots of resources for teachers and a great kids' section
  • Beyond Biology 101 - A report by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute on changes in the undergraduate biology education.
  • Ask a Biologist - A site created by the Arizona State University's Life Sciences Visualization Group as an educational resource for students K-12 and their teachers.
  • The Great Plant Escape - The University of Illinois created this site, which is geared toward fourth- and fifth-grade students.
  • American Forests - Everything you want to know about America's forests, including the National Registry of Big Trees:
  • NASA's Near Earth Object Program
  • ThinkQuest -- A collection of sites created by students, this is the place to go to find some of the most original sites on the Internet. (Think about encouraging students to put together a site for the competition!)
  • Astronomy Resources at STSci - Visitors to this site can learn about space and the Hubble Space Telescope. This site is provided by the Space Telescope Science Institute. The first article I read was about astronomers finding a spiral galaxy that spins in a different direction than they had predicted. This website is updated frequently with press releases and the latest research findings on the study of space.
  • Earth Science Enterprise is a web site developed by NASA. Kids can learn about the atmosphere and weather in “Droplet and the Water Cycle”, a fairy tale that follows a droplet of rain on its journey to earth. Kids play a game to maneuver Droplet through the stages of the water cycle, without getting absorbed or slurped along the way. There are also sections of the site that cover the ways in which air, people, water and land affect the earth.
  • Project Primary is a collaboration of university professors and K-3 teachers. The site provides many hand-on activities for use in teaching science.These are just activities, not detailed lesson plans, but many of them are very good. Categories include botany, chemistry, geology, physics and zoology. They also have a section on children’s nonfiction literature, including criteria to look for. Some of the activities even have hand-outs that you can print out and use in your classroom.
  • Wild Ones is the Children’s Education Program for the Wildlife Trust, a non-profit organization whose mission it is to educate people about endangered species and to conserve their habitats. The site features a wonderful “Teacher Connection” newsletter that has a different topic four times a year. The newsletter tells teacher what to look for on the website for a particular unit (i.e. Human Wildlife Conflict) and gives ideas for lessons.
  • Sport! Science@The Exploratorium could be used by adults or kids to discover the science behind some popular sports. Four sports are included on the site: skateboarding, cycling, baseball, and hockey. Users can learn about physics, energy, and aerodynamics and how each relates to their sport. The site features great pictures and lots of choices for study.
Social Studies
Technology

Global Connection/Pen Pals
  • Epals is a site that allows classrooms to exchange ideas and letters with other classrooms around the world.
  • Kidlink is a website that allows students to be involved in global dialogue.
  • Intercultural E-mail helps teachers link with partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail classroom pen-pal and project exchanges.
Web Quests
  • Why are webquests important?
  • Classroom Connect offers interactive on-line quests for students.
  • The Jason Project is designed to excite and engage students in science and technology and to motivate and provide professional development for teachers.
Health
  • Resources to teach about health and the human body

Sites That Contain Lesson Plans For All Subjects
  • Teachervision.com - Lesson plans across the curriculum for seasonal and current events using current learning theories with links to many sites
  • AskERIC Lesson Plans
  • Search for multiple lesson