Useful Materials
for Teachers

Online Tools and Web Sites:

ICTS Study Guides
Use these study guides to help you prepare for the Illinois Certification Testing System exams.

Discovery School.com
Advice for forming lesson plans for children's fiction and non-fiction materials.

You Think-But Do You Know? (for teachers)
A web site devoted to worldwide issues and how teachers can teach them to their classes.

US Department of Education
The US federal web site containing information on "No Child Left Behind," federal financial aid, and more.

Write It
Tips on how to write more professionally, publishing your work, and creating a portfolio.

The Library of Congress Learning Page 
A collection of websites that support humanities education.

Work Hard, Be Nice: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America by Jay Mathews
370/MAT

Autism in Your Classroom: A General Educator’s Guide to Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders by Deborah Fein
371.94/FEI

Letters to a Young Teacher by Jonathan Kozol
371.1/KOZ

Excel for Teachers by Colleen Conmy
005.369/EXC

Technology and the School Library: A Comprehensive Guide for Media Specialists and Other Educators by Odin L. Jurkowski
027.8/JUR

Murder is No Accident: Understanding and Preventing Youth Violence in America by Deborah Prothrow-Stith
303.6/PRO

Great Books for High School Kids: A Teacher’s Guide to Books That Can Change Teens’ Lives by Rick Ayers
028.535/GRE

Conflict Resolution Education: A Guide to Implementing Programs in Schools, Youth-Serving Organizations, and Community and Juvenile Justice Settings by Donna K. Crawford
303.69/CRA

Teacher Man: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
921/MCC

Stuttering: Straight Talk for Teachers: A Handbook for Teachers and Speech-Language Pathologists by Lisa Scott
616.8554/STU

The Promise by Oral Lee Brown and Caille Millner
921/BRO

Quality Education for Latinos and Latinas: Print and Oral Skills for All Students, K-College by Rita Portales
371.82968/POR

Why Boys Don’t Talk and Why It Matters by Susan Morris Shaffer
305.235/SHA

ADHD in the Classroom: A Powerful, Practical Solution by Beatrice Hair
616.8589/HAI