Useful Sites for Teachers

• General References
• Search Engines
• Sites of interest to teachers in Ontario
• Sites of general interest to teachers everywhere
• Faculty of Education Home Page

References

• Dictionary of English Acronyms
• Encyclopædia Britannica The world's best Web sites, plus magazines, books, and the complete Encyclopædia Britannica.
• Grammar and Style Notes by Jack Lynch
• A Guide to Grammar and Writing. "Contains several digital handouts on grammar and English usage, nearly fifty computer-graded quizzes, recommendations on writing -- from basic problems in subject-verb agreement to exercises in parallel structures, and a way a to submit questions about grammar and writing."
• Hypertext Webster Interface provides a point-and-click client interface for accessing the various Webster's dictionary services on the Internet.
• Map Quest. Maps, point to point driving directions...
• Roget's Thesaurus.
• WWWebster^(tm) Dictionary. Based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate^® Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
• World Wide Words by Michael Quinion. Devoted to the English language - its history, quirks, curiosities and evolution.
• Yahoo's Encyclopedia search

Online Newspapers and Media

• CANADA ONLINE News & Media
• Newspapers of the World on Internet

Search Engines

Sites of interest to teachers in Ontario

• Barebones Learning Solutions "Barebones support the Ontario Curriculum
  and other learning and career skills initiatives across Canada in schools and in other learning contexts."
• Board Watch News A bi-monthly report on the Toronto District School Board
  
• Canada's SchoolNet
• CANCOPY - provides legal access to copyright-protected works
  for millions of Canadian copyright users.
• Ontario Association For Mathematics Education
• Ontario College of Teachers
  • Standards of Practice for the Teaching Profession
• Ontario Curriculum Clearinghouse
  • Investment in Secondary School Learning Resources Initiative, Grade 9, 1999
    • Approved English Language Learning Resources
    • Ressources d'apprentissage en français approuvées
  • Grade 9 Secondary School Course Profile Project, 1999
  • Ontario MoET List of Approved Learning Materials, 1999
• Ontario Ministry Of Education and Training
  • Elementary and Secondary Curriculum and Policy Documents
• Ontario Public School Boards' Association
  • Alphabetical Listing of OPSBA Member Boards
  • Northern Ontario English-Language Public District School Board Boundaries
  • Ontario French-Language Public District School Board Boundaries
  • Ontario School Authority Boundaries
  • Southern Ontario English-Language Public District School Board Boundaries
• People For Education Working together to defend fully publicly-funded eduation in Ontario
• Statistics Canada Education Resources
• Teaching Human Rights In Ontario
• Yahoo! Canada's Education Ontario list

Sites of general interest to teachers everywhere

• The Apple Learning Interchange
• Black History Month All Year Long
• The Canadian Safe School Network is a grassroots, charitable organization dedicated to reducing youth and school violence.
• Canada's SchoolNet
• The Education for Sustainable Development Tool Kit "...is based on the idea that communities and educational systems within communities need to dovetail their sustainability efforts. As communities develop sustainability goals, local educational systems can modify existing curriculums to reinforce those goals."
• Jobs In Education
• LD OnLine - the interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and children.
• The Learning Station - the most cost-effective technology solutions for academic achievement.
• MediaSeek Inc. MediaSeek helps you match resources, curriculum, and educational standards to your learning needs and interests. Home of:
  • ExplorAsource.com ...the online service that finds resources to match specific learning needs and education standards.
  • Resource Correlator is a tool designed to efficiently generate "correlation reports" that show the matches between their resources and standards documents.
• Richard Fouchaux's Lesson Plans Collection (annotated)
• Teaching Overseas
• The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary, with links to a superb thesaurus and other reference tools.
• SuperKids Math Worksheet Creator
• The National Association for Music Education (MENC)
• The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
• 21st Century Teachers Network
• The Virtual Training Suite is a set of online tutorials designed to help students, lecturers and researchers improve their Internet information skills.
• The WWW Virtual Library