ASSIST

On-Line professional staff development designed to provide support to new teachers and experienced teachers who are working to improve target areas in their practice.

Atomic Learning

As a subscriber to Atomic Learning you have full access to our library of thousands of tutorials and other valuable educational resources. We recently rolled out eight new tutorial series representing over 500 new tutorials. From Basic to Advanced here's the best resource.

Basic Skills Training

Microsoft Office Tutorials - Beginner's Training for Office 2003. Free online training courses just for beginners. Get a jump start on your Word, Excel, and Powerpoint skills.

EDUREF.org

Web site formerly known as ERIC

The Educator's Reference Desk provides high-quality resources and services to the education community. From the people who created AskERIC, the Gateway to Educational Materials, and the Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator's Reference Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on. Lesson plans, links to online education information, and archive.

K-2 - What’’s Online for You?

Download this PDF printable file with links for teachers of young children.

"Computers and the Internet by themselves hold little educational value,” says John Bailey, former director of educational technology at the U.S. Department of Education. "But when used well, technology lets kids tap into a vast store of knowledge that was once almost inaccessible. …"

Marco Polo

Access lesson plans, student activities, reviewed Web sites in

Science, Language Arts, Social Studies, Arts, Econ, Humanities, Geography

Michigan Assist

Suppose there could be a better way to begin teaching... you can find useful information directly targeted to provide both “just in time” information for immediate application, and ideas for discussion. further study, and professional development within the website. ASSIST materials are tools for learning ways to improve teaching practice.

Michigan Dept of Education

Michigan's content standards are a set of learning expectations developed by parents, educators, business leaders and university professors to assist schools in the development of local district curricula. These standards and more detailed learning objectives called benchmarks are contained within the Michigan Curriculum Framework.

Michigan Electronic Library

MEL provides articles from magazines, newspapers, and ebooks.

Easily and quickly find a variety of reliable sources targeted at your students' ages, interests, and reading levels. Information on linking to curriculum standards and integrating online resources into your lesson plans.

Access is free and automatic from any Michigan school or library computer. Michigan residents may go to mel.org, click on "logon at home or work" and enter a valid Michigan driver's license number or state ID. Children may use a parent's number.

Michigan Reading Association

is a dynamic and diverse organization whose mission is to promote literacy.
• Reading is the key to learning.
• Everyone has the responsibility to promote literacy.
• Diversity contributes to understanding and positive social action.
• Literacy practice and policy demand knowledgeable decision makers

Michigan Teacher Network

Michigan Teacher Network provides easy access to PK-12 education related Web resources that have been carefully evaluated for quality, relevance, and effectiveness. MTN describes thousands of excellent resources that can be used with students in the classroom, with teachers for professional development, and by educators for planning and problem solving.

MiCLIMB

MI CLiMB is a product that contains the clarification of each core area benchmark; it is not a new curriculum. Because arts education, English language arts, mathematics, science and social studies content areas use specialized language, MI CLiMB explains each benchmark so that it is easily understood.

Teacher Leader Recommendations

Looking for information specific to Dearborn Curriculum in your content area? This is the place.

Teacher to Teacher Workshops

The U.S. Department of Education has brought together some of the nation's most effective teachers and practitioners to share the research-based practices and ways of using data they have used in their own schools to make a difference in student achievement. For the past 2 years they have shared their expertise through the U.S. Department of Education's Teacher-to-Teacher Workshops offered in various locations. You could spend the entire summer here.

WCRESA Video Streaming

Log in, then click on TEACHER CENTER for Interactive Training

Learn how to integrate digitized media content into your lessons with these fun, self-paced training modules.