Education Resources

General Resources

National Science Education Standards
The nation's first comprehensive standards to improve science education in grades K-12, written by a national committee of school teachers, university and college faculty, scientists, and state and local school administrators.

Project 2061
"Project 2061 is the long-term initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science working to reform K-12 science, mathematics, and technology education nationwide."

Science for All Americans
"Essential reading for the making of a scientifically literate America, exploring what constitutes scientific literacy in a modern society: the knowledge, skills and attitudes all students should acquire in scientific study, and what steps this country must take in reforming its system of education in science, mathematics, and technology."

National Teacher Recruitment Clearinghouse
The National Teacher Recruitment Clearinghouse, hosted by Recruiting New Teachers, Inc. (RNT), is a resource for prospective teachers seeking jobs -- and for school districts and states seeking qualified teachers.

A New Teacher's Survival Guide
A resource for beginning teachers covering organization, the first day, classroom management, discipline, grading.

Time on Task
Strategies for increasing time on task and motivating students to learn. Ten tips for keeping students' attention on their work.

Books/Journals for Science Teachers

Tips for the Science Teacher: Research-Based Strategies to Help Students Learn
"An authoritative, research-based, thoroughly up-to-date and readable review of the best available techniques for science instruction."

The New Science Teacher: Cultivating Good Practice
"Tracking six prospective biology teachers from their university training through their first years in the classroom, the author uses her own observations as well as interviews and direct quotes from the teachers to record not only their growth, but to reflect on her own development as well."

Transforming Middle School Science Education
"In this penetrating volume, Paul DeHart Hurd combines more than half a century of experience and current scholarship with his vision for improving the middle school science curriculum."

Designing Project-Based Science: Connecting Learners Through Guided Inquiry
"This interpretive case study of an exceptional teacher provides a fascinating account of the difficulties and rewards of putting innovative teaching into practice."

Developing Inquiry-Based Science Materials: A Guide for Educators
"A unique and powerfully practical book. It combines instructional materials development and the curriculum in a way that makes the curriculum come alive for teachers of sciencea must for every teacher who has ever struggled with how to select quality instructional materials for his or her students." Shelley A. Lee, National Science Teachers Association President, 1995-96

To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher
"To Teach is the story of one teachers odyssey into the ethical and intellectual heart of teaching, and at the same time an invitation to teachers to more thoughtfully and carefully map their own pathways. This second edition offers new resources and addresses the small schools movement, as well as new challenges facing teachers. In conceptual and practical ways, To Teach narrates an essential journey all teachers must take if, at the end of their own Yellow Brick Roads, they are to achieve the basics: a heart, a brain, the nerve, and a home."

The Scientist
"The Scientist is an international news magazine published in print and on the Web. It reports on and analyzes the issues and events that impact the world of life scientists." The website and journal is a great resource for staying current on the exciting events in life science research.

Teachers College Press
"For nearly a century, Teachers College Press has been committed to addressing the ideas that matter most to educators."

Pitfalls and potholes: a checklist for avoiding common mistakes of beginning teachers
"This handy guide will help you avoid many of the mistakes new teachers say they wish someone had told them about in college."

Bright Ideas: A Pocket Mentor for Beginning Teachers
Provides beginning teachers with tips for preparing, personally and professionally, for their fist job.