New Teacher Center at University of California, Santa Cruz A national resource dedicated to teacher development. Offering several support programs designed to equip the new teacher with necessary skills and support for success in the classroom.
What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching Dedicated to the first year teacher. The site manages to articulate the primary challenges and rewards of teaching in a clear and succinct way, using the words of the teachers themselves. New and Veteran teachers respond to issues ranging from professional isolation to differences in student ability to the unexpected exhilaration of this demanding career.
Recruiting New Teachers, Inc. This site examines the teaching profession in great detail, as well as providing resources for potential teachers.
SoYouWanna Be A Teacher? This article goes through the entire process, from certification to lesson plans, so that a person will know what to expect and how to prepare for a career in teaching.
Mentoring the New Teacher SkyLight Professional Development provides a summer program that provides training for the most critical problems facing novice teachers.
Summerbridge A program for high school and college students to teach other students a few courses during the summer in exchange for a stipend. Program is run in a number of cities around the United states.
Ten Tips for New Teachers Ten tips to help student teachers become successful in the classroom. Written by a veteran teacher and student teacher mentor.
New Physics Teacher Project Advice for the first year physics teacher gathered from interviews with expert physics educators.
Primary Catholic Partnership School-centred initial teacher training in the Southampton, UK area which promotes high standards of teaching and learning based on a Catholic philosophy of education.
Information on Teach for America Details of an interview experience with Teach for America, and links to their national web site and the Houston school district which hired this particular person.
Bedgrove Infant Training School Background information about the school as well as about the different ways of training to become a teacher in the UK.
Mentor Junction A comprehensive support environment for professionals mentoring or supervising novice teachers. The site also contains an integration of theory, research, and application of promising practices for promoting educator learning and personal development.
Nontraditional Career Resource Center at Rutgers University A program funded by the New Jersey Department of Education, and is housed at the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Parents, educators and students explore, research, and share information on nontraditional (for their gender) careers.
Teach For America TFA is a national teacher corps of recent college graduates who commit two years to teach and to effect change in under-resourced urban and rural public schools.
New Teacher Survival Guide Includes how to get a job, teaching jokes, classroom discipline tips, pros and cons of public and private schools, and more.
Hip Teacher Weblog covering the whole first year out of college as a teacher.
Training and Development Agency for Schools (UK) An executive Non-Departmental Public Body established to raise standards in schools by attracting able and committed people to teaching and by improving the quality of teacher training.
2Schools Consortium School-based initial teacher training through the GTP route. UK.
Owatonna Mentoring Program Experienced Owatonna educators are teamed up with probationary teachers in a three-year progression, to provide support, encouragement and professional development.
Embrace Challenge Information is primarily for student and new science teachers. Ideas include classroom management suggestions, how to prepare for the start of the school year, and how to handle laboratory situations.
