Primary and Secondary Teaching Resources

This page provides links to general resources for primary and secondary teaching practicum. Curriculum specific resource links are also available:

Curriculum Specific Links

Arts Education
English
(including Children's Literature)
Health and Physical Education
Maori Education

General Teaching

Assessment
Links to New Zealand sites providing assessment tools for teaching and learning.

BBC Schools Online
Recipient of the BETT 2000 Award for best learning resource online

Discovery School
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning

Edlink
Annotated links to education information on the Internet.

EdResearch Online
Database of 13 827 online education research documents and articles. These form a subset of the Australian Education Index.

Edsoft
New Zealand and Australian Educational software

The Educator's Reference Desk
Links to a range of curriculum related sites, resource guides, lesson plans and the free version of the ERIC database. Also available is an archive of the questions sent to the ASK ERIC service between 1992 and 2003.

Education Statistics National Centre for education Statistics. NCES is the primary Federal entity for collecting and analysing data that are related to education in the United States and other nations.

Education World
Large site excellent resources covering all topics.

TheGateway
The Gateway to Educational Materials is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites. GEM is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and is a special project of theERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology

GlobalNet
GlobalNet is designed to involve children and young people aged 10 to 16. It aims to focus on the issues that are important to this age group and to provide an opportunity for children to voice their concerns, hopes and dreams about what the future will be like

indexNZ Top Education Sites
Major source of links to New Zealand education websites.

Inspiring Teachers
An international resource for beginning teachers

Kid Info

This site includes resources for students (homework help, reference resources, fun sites), teachers (web resources, tutorials, lesson plans) and young children (online books and reading activities, educational games).

KidStuff
Good links and resources compiled by librarians of the Christchurch City Library

Kindergarten
This is a collection of Internet resources for early childhood education, including sites about language and reading, clip art, and lesson plans. (Kindergarten in Canada & USA covers ages 4-5)

Learning Media
Includes Online Ngata English-Maori Dictionary and information on latest Learning Media publications.

New Zealand Educational Resources
Excellent sites for years 1-13, compiled by the National Library of New Zealand.

NZ Home Education
New Zealand site for parents who educate their children at home rather than at school

No Bully
Bullying is a big problem in New Zealand and it's important that we all work to stop it, so Telecom and the Police have developed a campaign to help parents and their children.

Scholastic Teacher's Homepage
Winner of both the Webby and People's Voice Awards for excellence in websites

S.E.S.- Specialist Education Services
Services for the benefit of people with learning difficulties.

Teachers@Work
Over 1000 of the Best Internet Sites for Educators. This resource has been developed by Mark Treadwell to assist teachers in finding relevant web sites for both themselves, and their students, on the Internet. Reviewed sites with the New Zealand Curriculum in mind

Teaching Online
Access to Starters and Strategies the New Zealand teachers' magazine, lesson plans and lists useful educational sites

User Friendly Resources
Independant Educational Publishers based in Christchurch. Curriculum and Professional Development materials for New Zealand Schools

Where the Wild Things Are
"Best information on the Net". Index of education sites that includes lesson plans.