Resources for Faculty and Students



Counselor Education Resources/Websites
U.S. Department of Education
State Education Department
EdInfo Resources
Reading and Writing Resources
Standards
NY State Code of Ethics
Middle & High School Education: Master's Thesis Guides


Counselor Education Resources/Websites

American Counseling Association (ACA)
http://www.counseling.org

American School Counselor Association (ASCA)
http://www.schoolcounselor.org

Center for School Counseling Outcome Research
http://www.umass.edu/schoolcounseling/index.htm

New York State School Counselor Association (NYSSCA)
http://www.nyssca.org

The National Center for Transforming School Counseling (NCTSC) at The Education Trust
http://www2.edtrust.org/EdTrust/Transforming+School+Counseling/main

The National Office for School Counselor Advocacy (NOSCA) at The College
Board

http://advocacy.collegeboard.org/college-preparation-access/national-office-school-counselor-advocacy-nosca


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U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Education

http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml

U.S. Department of Education: Institute of Education Sciences - What Works Clearinghouse

http://whatworks.ed.gov

More than 1500 Free Federal Resources for teaching & learning

http://free.ed.gov
Science: Activities, experiments, and visualizations in earth and space sciences, biology, physics, chemistry...
Math: Simulations of key math concepts, online challenges for students, activities for families...
History: Primary documents, historical maps and places, people who changed the course of history...
Language Arts: Literature, writers, online professional development to help all children learn to read...
Also Arts & Music, Health & Phys Ed


U.S. Department of Education - What Works Clearinghouse

Report on interventions designed to improve the academic achievement of LEP elementary school students.
http://www.whatworks.ed.gov/Topic.asp?tid=10&ReturnPage=default.asp

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence include:

Arts:
"Deception & Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe l'Oeil Painting"
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/trompe-info.htm

"Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music"
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mussmhtml/

Language Arts:
"Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers"
http://www.pbs.org/launchingreaders/

Math:
"Create a Graph"
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/

"Explore Your Knowledge"
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/eyk/index.asp?flash=true

Science:
"Toxtown"
http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/

Social Studies:
"LewisandClark200.gov"
http://www.lewisandclark200.org/
"Life in the White House"
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/life/
"Our Documents"
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/
"Voices from the Field"
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/educators/

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State Education Department

New York State Education Department
http://www.nysed.gov/

New York State Ed Curriculum, Instruction & Instructional Technology
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/home.html

New York State Learning Standards

Math, Science and Technology


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NYC Department of Education

New York City Department of Education


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ED Info Resources

Teacher-to-Teacher: Digital Workshops
http://www.paec.org/teacher2teacher/

FREE Teaching Resources from federal agencies:
http://free.ed.gov

FREE Teaching Resources:
http://wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov/CFAPPS/FREE/displaydate.cfm

History
"Civil War Maps"

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/index.html

"The Homestead Act of 1862"
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/homestead-act/activities.html

Math
USA Mathematical Talent Search

http://www.usamts.org/

Science
ActionBioscience.org

http://www.actionbioscience.org/lessondirectory.html

"BEN: BiosciEdNet"

Registration required. (National Science Foundation)
http://www.biosciednet.org/portal/

"The Elegant Universe: It's String Theory"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant

"Investigating the Climate System: Weather" http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/ICS_Weather.html

"Jet Propulsion Laboratory Education Gateway"
http://education.jpl.nasa.gov/educators/lp5-12.html

"Strange Matter"
http://www.strangematterexhibit.com/index.html


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Reading and Writing Resources

Content-Area Resources
The Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org

News for Students and Educators
The Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication
http://reading.indiana.edu/

The Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence
http://crede.berkeley.edu/


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Middle & High School Education: Master's Thesis Guides

Curriculum (PDF)
Empirical (PDF)
Scholarly (PDF)


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