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176 Ways to Involve Parents has realistic and ready-to-use ideas to help both teachers and administrators transform passive parents into eager educational partners. Readers learn new and innovative ways to sustain ongoing communication with parents, ideas for making parents feel welcome, strategies for getting parents involved in school governance, techniques for developing parent volunteer programs, and more.

ABCTE’s Prepare to Teach Workshops will not only help teaching candidates prepare for the Professional Teaching Knowledge Exam, but will also provide sound, practical advice to help teachers succeed once they are certified and in the classroom. In total, the workshops will consist of over 300 pages of content divided across ten topics, each with high-quality video case studies that demonstrate and reinforce the concepts discussed. These workshops are available online at any time so candidates can move at their own pace.

All enrolled candidates will receive complimentary access to ABCTE’s online Prepare to Teach Workshops. Access the workshops at http://www.abcte.org/courses/prepare-to-teach/index.html and login with your MyPass username and password.

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This page on TeacherVision's website features many resources organized under the categories of "The Art of Teaching," "Assessment," "Behavior Management," "Classroom Organization" and "Working with Parents."

ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

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The New Teacher Hotline features Dr. Glen Moulton, a supervisor of instruction and lifelong teacher trainer, and Michael Kelley, the author of Rookie Teaching for Dummies. These two hosts use their knowledge and experiences to provide straight-forward and practical tips and strategies to new teachers.

You can either listen right from the web site or download the podcast from iTunes and listen on the go! And best of all, this resource is absolutely free!

Picky Parent Guide is packed with dozens of practical ways to improve every child’s school performance and every family’s satisfaction with its school choices. It contains a point-by-point discussion about how to discover each child’s unique set of learning strengths, challenges and styles as well as other capabilities, passions, social needs and other factors important for choosing the right school. The book helps parents address their own values about curriculum content, disciplinary methods, parental involvement as well as practical matters like transportation, scheduling, and money.

Gain the upper hand on your first day of school. Written by the Coordinator of Preparation for the American Board, this friendly guide reveals what they don't teach you in education classes, offering practical advice and tons of real-life examples to help you set up and maintain an orderly classroom, engage your students, establish a grading system, and develop positive relationships with parents and school administrators. Furthermore, the book addresses issues for both elementary and secondary teachers, rather than just one group, as is typical of contemporary teacher instruction texts.

The Class Homepage Builder is a tool to help you create and post online news and information about your class. As a teacher, it's your personal online workspace for making a Class Homepage and Web-based materials to share with students and their parents. The Class Homepage Builder is free! Even if you have little computer experience, it's easy to use the Class Homepage Builder. The step by step tutorial will guide you throughout the process.

The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) was established in 2002 by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to provide educators, policymakers, researchers, and the public with a central and trusted source of scientific evidence of what works in education.