On the Web: New Teacher Tips

Science Teachers' Grab Bag

The Science Teachers' Grab Bag lists various inexpensive resources for you and your classroom. Below are listings that relate to New Teacher Tips:

• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: The guide lists websites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
• Survival Guide for New Teachers: How New Teachers Can Work Effectively With Veteran Teachers, Parents, Principals, and Teacher Educators. Developed by the U.S. Department of Education, the guide includes the reflections of award-winning first-year teachers who talk candidly about their successes and setbacks, with a particular emphasis on the relationships they formed with their colleagues, university professors, and their students’ parents. The book includes suggestions about how new teachers can foster supportive professional relationships and what they stand to gain from them.
• The MERLOT Digital Library
  This site offers constantly updated resources for teaching and learning science. Recommended by NSTA New Science Teacher Academy fellows.
• The new Science Teacher (TnST)
  TnST is intended as a reference source for preservice teachers, current educators, and parents. New teachers can research information about science topics as well as the pedagogy behind appropriate teaching practices.
• What Works in Schools Report
  Powerful facts and statistics about education issues such as PreK, class size, curriculum, segregation, teacher quality, and after-school learning comprise What Works in Schools: What We Know and What We Need to Learn to Address Inequalities in Education. This special report is contained in the 2007 Annual Report of Teachers College, Columbia University. To bring the research alive, the report takes you into classrooms, communities, and other theaters of education.

NSTA Discussion Board Forum: New Teachers
This forum allows an exchange of ideas and opinions on topics related to science education. New and experienced teachers participate.

NSTA Recommends
Read product reviews of the best available supplements for your science teaching from NSTA’s panel of top-flight teachers and other outstanding science educators.

NSTA Special Book Offer for Nonmembers
Join NSTA now through September 26 and receive $10 off your individual regular* membership dues and have your choice of a free book. Elementary Teachers get Picture Perfect Science Lessons (Offer valid only on individual, regular memberships).

The Early Years
Learn how colleagues are managing their classrooms of young science learners in The Early Years Blog, NSTA’s online forum for early childhood educators.