Online Teacher and Educator Resources for K12 Teachers Administrators & Parents
Teachers Area
Welcome to the Teachers Area of the Educational CyberPlayground. The new paradigm of the central teaching / learning function is: the course is not the container; teaching 'space' is not a physical place; and 'personal' does not mean 'in person'.
There are more than 1500 pages on this site so plan to visit often, because this takes time, and it will be time well spent.
Silver and gold will rot away but a good education will never decay.
"Coverage is the enemy of understanding"
~ Howard Gardner
Public school, is 200 years old and given America the strongest economy in world history. There are more than 14,000 districts. Nearly 50 million students are heading off to approximately 97,000 public elementary and secondary schools for the fall 2008 term. Before the school year is out, an estimated $489 billion will be spent related to their education, with an average of $9,969 to be spent per pupil for fall enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools. Some 3.2 million teachers are projected to be employed in public elementary and secondary schools in 2007-08. And more than 1.1 million students -- about two percent of all students -- will be homeschooled. These are just a few of the statistics contained in "Back to School Stats," compiled by the Institute of Education Sciences' research and statistical centers.
2008 “High schools are coming under pressure from the federal government to improve the nation’s dismal dropout rate — one in four students.”New rules address ‘outrageous’ dropout rates There is something wrong when one quarter of the children do not finish high school. The burden that this places on the economy is enormous.
Follow Contracts and Federal Spending Major Contracting Agency is the Dept. of Education for more statistical information about American elementary, secondary and postsecondary schools, students, and the educational process. [also]
"Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."
~ Joseph Stalin
Educators, Administrators, Parents and Policy Wonks alike will find sections dedicated to
Motivate Students
Special Topics and Issues
- How to Teach Non Fear Based Internet Curriculum.
- Censorship, Plagiarism, Copyright, and CopyLeft, plagiarism checker and detection
- K-12 Classroom Law
music contract, music copyright laws, free music download, free mp3 download, Family Rights, Privacy, Standards, HomeSchoolers - 2008 New technology standards for teachers issued by The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
- Children's Rights, Family Rights A report from the Alliance for Childhood warns that the nation is "blindly pursuing educational policies that could well damage the intellectual, social, and physical development of an entire generation." Classic play materials like blocks, sand-and-water tables, and props for dramatic play are disappearing, and in many kindergartens there is no playtime.
- Websites that are good for little kids
Resources and Tools
- New to the classroom?
Find Classroom Management tips and the New Teacher Tool Kit. - Classroom Resources
the element song, periodic table song, presidents song, health, brain music, baby timeline, child development chart - Different Teaching Styles
teach reading, san diego quick assessment, light retention scale.Music and Reading - Search Engines
- Grants and Scholarships
- 12th Grade Seniors Going To College - Stanford Report, June 14, 2005
'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005. - How To Get Into College (Who's Your Daddy)
~ Chinese Proverb
Are you new to the internet?
Please start by playing with the interactive tutorial for beginners where you will how to click and scroll to rock'n roll around the net.
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K-12 INTERNET HISTORY
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"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." -- Socrates (420 BC) |
The NetHappenings Mailing List, is the first and oldest education list in the US started in 1989. Please consider joining this community or one of the other education mailing lists we moderate and keep up with the latest info about education and nethappenings.
School Directory is also the first and oldest database created for school websites when they first came online. This area is organized by state or grade level. Citizens are invited to list your school's website into the Hot List Master Registry where you can see what the other schools have done with their sites.
Don't be shy - you can ask the expert Ring Leaders on the CyberPlayGround for help. Some of these folks are part of K-12 education and internet history, they were the the original education pioneers and are true netizens.
The most damaging phrase in any language is "it's always been done that way."
~ Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
Social Networking web 2.0 Kids know how to use technology but teachers don't. Teachers who participated in the Bell South Foundation's Power to Teach project reported that they had made significant strides in integrating technology into the learning experience. However students reported seeing few changes in classroom instruction, they see it as nothing has changed, technology is still only an add on and not really a seemless part of the ONLINE CURRICULA.
"The fate of empires depends on the education of youth." ~ Aristotle
Students, Teachers Differ on Technology Use. It is still a disaster in the K-12 classroom according to the children PDF.
2005 - 72 million children attend the nation's public and private schools.
The purpose of public schools and the rationale for the Land Ordinance of 1785 which surveyed areas to establish townships and provide for public education -- was to produce good citizens.
Politicians like: Senator Kennedy worked tirelessly to ensure that the highest quality public education was available to all, with special attention to poor children, children of color, children with disabilities, children learning English, homeless children, and young people who could not otherwise afford higher education. He formed alliances with legislators of both political parties, and advocacy groups across the ideological spectrum, to effectively pass legislation that put children first and gave voice to those who had little voice.
"To find our way to the future, we need the skills, the insight and the productivity of every American, in a nation in which each of us shares responsibility for the future and where the blessings of progress are shared fairly by all our citizens in return...We need a national education strategy to assure that America can advance, not retreat, in the global economy in the years ahead...We are past the point where we can afford only to talk the talk without walking the walk..." -- National Press Club, January 2005
Don't ever doubt that Education is a Business, Big Business as only Merrill Lynch Research can show. And don't forget that getting into college is all about "who's your daddy".
United States Department of Education Statistics and Teacher Resources, Educator Resources, Teaching Styles, US Census
Source U.S. Census
A HALF-CENTURY OF LEARNING: Historical Census Statistics on Educational Attainment in the United States, 1940 - 2000
2006 Report, National Spending Per Student Rises to $8,287. U.S. public school districts spent an average of $8,287 per student in 2004, up from the previous year's total of $8,019. In all, public elementary and secondary education received $462.7 billion from federal, state and local sources in 2004, up 5.1 percent from 2003." Summary Direct to Federal, State, and Local Governments 2004 Public Elementary-Secondary Education Finance Data.
The National Education Association has estimated that the current average cost per student for public schools across America is $7552. For a special education pupil, add $9369 per pupil for an average cost of $16921.
"Findings from the Pilot Teacher Compensation Survey: 2005-06" This pilot test collected data from the administrative records of seven states (AZ, AR, CO, FL, IA, MO, and OK), including base salary, total salary, benefits, highest level of education, and years of experience.
U.S. Department of Education http://www.ed.gov/
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Washington, DC 20202-0498
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Current Education Press Releases
Contracts and Federal Spending -- Major Contracting Agency is the Dept. of Education
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
WORK READY = COLLEGE READY
What do an electrician, construction worker and plumber have in common with college freshmen? They all need comparable reading and math skills to succeed. The new report, "Ready for College and Ready for Work: Same or Different? compared 476,000 high school juniors' results from 2001 to 2004 on two exams: the ACT college admissions test and WorkKeys, an assessment of employability skills. ACT determined that similar reading and math skills are required to pass first-year college courses as are needed to succeed in entry-level "family wage" jobs.
Do you already have experience building school websites?
Do you know how to Bury Your Dead Ed Dot With Dignity?
Do you know how to prevent your site from showing up in a school classroom as a nasty /xxx/ site?
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
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