Resources for Teachers

What are the issues surrounding teacher tenure? Read this FAQ to find out.

How does tenure affect layoffs of teachers for financial cuts or enrollment issues? Read this FAQ to find out.

What are a teacher's rights under tenure? Read this FAQ to find out.

There are four major stages involved in the typical teaching career. Learn about each stage and how to move from one to the next.

Teaching is an amazing career. Why should someone become a teacher? Take a look at this top ten list of great reasons to become a teacher?

You know you're a teacher when.... Users share their own humorous thoughts on how to tell you're a teacher.

When you're a teacher, you often find that the line between teaching and everyday life becomes blurred. Following is a humorous look at how teaching pervades our entire lives. My goal is to keep adding new items as I think of them. Please feel free to add your own thoughts at the end of the list. Enjoy!

What do you wish you'd have known during your first year of teaching? Share your thoughts with other educators here.

Why did you become a teacher? What made you join the teaching profession? Share your reasons for becoming a teacher.

In order to become more effective in our role as teacher, we must cultivate key organizational skills. This article looks at the reason why teachers need to become better organizers.

Use the classroom checkout list to help as you close out the school year.

Work for the U.S. Census Bureau during the summer and earn extra money.

Summer vacation is a time for teachers to recharge and refocus as they prepare for another group of students. Here are ten to do's that teachers can work on during this summer vacation.

Field trips are normally not a required part of the curriculum. This article deals with how teacher can create effective field trips.

How do you know if the school where you are teaching is the right one for you? How can you tell before you even take a job there? What are some of the key characteristics of effective schools? Here are 10 ways to know if your school is effective.

Use this Secondary School Educators guide site map to help you find the most important and useful features of About's Secondary School Educators website. Find information about lesson plans, curriculum areas, and resources for educators, teachers, administrators, and more.

What you need to know about sponsoring a student club.

Students often have a difficult time taking notes in a classroom setting. This article talks about ways that you can help students as they take notes.

What are the most important aspects of a quality school? Teachers share their thoughts and opinions.

What is pedagogy? Learn what this term means with this definition.

It is very important that teachers are careful with both their words and actions because without meaning to they can have a huge, lifelong impact on their students. This article looks at the importance of teacher's words and actions.