Teacher Education Sources
Books and Videos
- Athena - Midway College Library Catalog
- WorldCat - Search a catalog of books and other materials from libraries worldwide. You can also request books for interlibrary loan.
- NetLibrary - A collection of full-text electronic books.
- Academic Search Premier - Multi-disciplinary database of full text journals.
- ERIC - Educational Resource Information Center--records and links to full-text ERIC documents.
- Kentucky Virtual Library - Providing all Kentuckians with equitable access to quality library and information resources. Special sites for kid and K-12.
- Professional Development Collection - Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of high quality education journals.
Teacher Reference Center - Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
Digital Education Network (DEN)
This website offers online tutorials and research tools for educators. It offers a variety of software tutorials such as Front Page, but it is geared more towards teaching elementary and high school students how to use the software.
This is a peer reviewed journal published by Mary Lou Fulton College of Education, Arizona State and the University of South Florida. In addition to English it is also available in Spanish and Portuguese. It has access to full text articles dealing with education policy from 1993-2007 (v.1-15).
Education Professional Standards Board
The EPSB is responsible for issuing and renewing certificates for all Kentucky teachers and administrators.
Early Childhood Research Practices
This is a refereed, online, early childhood education journal. It covers topics related to the development, care and education of children from birth-8 years old. It provides access to practice related research development and has full text articles from 1999-2007.
- International Children's Digital Library Your Fairy Bookmother
This site was created as a resource for finding children's books. You can search by subject or reader's age. Title, author, illustrator and a brief description are given. Book lists and reviews are also available.
Kentucky Department of Education
KDE homepage.
KERA: Resources on the Kentucky Education Reform Act
Resources on the Kentucky Education Reform Act maintained by Western Kentucky University Libraries' Web KERA Group.
National Center for Educational Statistics
NCES, located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
The National Institute for Early Childhood Education Research supports early childhood education initiatives by providing objective, nonpartisan information based on research.
This site is a great site for current and student teachers (note I used this site a lot when I was teaching to come up with lesson plans). It has 1000’s of lesson plans for every subject and grade level. It has teacher classifieds where you can buy, sell and trade items related to teaching. It also has message boards for teaching discussions and an area for job searching. The site also contains articles from the teachers.net gazette which is a teacher support newsletter and it is free.
This is another website similar to teachers.net that offers teaching ideas, hints, tips, lesson plans, room ideas and an advice column for K-12 teachers.
The Virtual Learning Resources Center is actually a great general website that could cut across many different areas of study and not just education. It is an information finding site, created by a librarian, for secondary school students and teachers; it gives easy access to pre-selected and evaluated information resources and it covers a wide variety of subjects. It is both an index of over 10,000 web pages as well as a meta-search engine that includes information obtained from many of the best research portals and university and public library internet subject guides recommended by teachers and librarians. It has information that can be used at both the school and university project level.
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
Provides a productive environment where the country’s leading scholars conduct basic and applied education research. It has access to full text project publications, WCER working papers and WCER research highlights.