Helpful+First+Year+Teacher+Tools

__ General Resources __
 * I nspiring Teachers Website. Links for [|New Teachers]
 * 100 best [|Video Sites for Teachers]
 * [|Blogs from Edutopia] on supporting new teachers
 * [|Alberta Teachers' Association] - don't forget to sign up for your free specialist council!
 * [|Galileo Education Network] - inquiry learning, student intellectual engagement and much more!
 * [|LearnALBERTA] - sign up with your teaching certificate number to create an account and to ensure access to all the resources provided! * Please take a close look at the [|ORC] (this [|ATA article] (June, 2013) highlights the key features of the ORC and is worth the quick read), the [|math/ science Gizmos], the social studies resources (especially [|critical challenges and the corresponding tools]) & [|T4T] courses
 * [|2Learn Education Society] - technology infusion ideas, webinars, VC student opportunities, digital seasonal celebration resources etc.

__ Curriculum Resources __

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 * Alberta Regional Professional Development Consortia (all subjects and grades)
 * Archived PD sessions on a variety of topics, teacher resources and much more!
 * Teacher created unit resources for [|Social Studies] & more [|Social Studies]; [|Assessment] and more [|Assessment]; [|CTS] and more [|CTS]; [|Differentiated Instruction] and [|more DI];[| Early Learning] and more [|Early Learning]; [|FNMI] and [|more FNM]I; [|French] and more [|French]; [|Literacy/ ELA] and more [|Literacy/ELA]; [|Math] and more [|Math];[| Phys Ed]; [|Science] & more [|Science]
 * PD Resources for new or beginning teachers (look on the left hand menu for many other PR resources in a variety of topic/ subject areas).
 * Literacy for All (K - 6) and Numeracy for All project websites
 * E-Teachers
 * Elk Island Public Teachers have many e-teachers. Visit the school websites, click on e-teachers and select a teacher from the right hand drop down menu. Here is an example of an [|elementary school] and a j[|unior/senior school]. Check our EIPS home page for many more.
 * [|Black Gold Public Schools], [|Rocky View Public Schools], [|Grand Prairie Public Schools], are other districts with e-teacher pages present. Snoop around school websites to find teacher pages.
 * Alberta Assessment Consortia - AAC (* login required for full resource access)
 * [|assessment materials]
 * [|professional learning resources] including articles, classroom video exemplars and much more.
 * Subject Specific Links
 * [|Science in Motion] - Science presentations from the Telus World of Science in Edmonton. They travel!
 * [|Mindfuel] (formerly Science Alberta Foundation)
 * [|Science Gizmos] listed on LearnAlberta.ca
 * [|Inside Education] Cross Curricular Classroom resources for Elementary, Juinor and Senior High School. Wonderful tools for examing the new Alberta Education Stewardship Competencies!
 * [|Social Studies Grade Level websites] - grades K - 11
 * [|Teaching Sexual Health] a wonderful resource for teaching many health outcomes grades 4 - CALM
 * [|Teaching Media Literacy] - a Canadian resource for teaching media literacy to all ages. [| Links to specific Alberta curriculum are here]
 * [|Career Cruising] - a helpful tool for Junior High Health and CALM classes. We have a district license - speak to your principal.
 * This is a compilation of high school review resources that I created in spring 2013. All core subject areas mostly grade 12, but some 10 and 11 as well.[[file:Samples of Diploma Review websites from Alberta Teachers.docx]]
 * This is the [|University of Lethbridge lesson plan pag]e. The criteria they use for inclusion of sites is:
 * 1) The size of the lesson plan databases,
 * 2) The ease of their use,
 * 3) The accuracy of their search engine