Welcome, teachers, to your own faculty lounge!

. October 5, 2009

Welcome to the Faculty Lounge!

.What's new for teachers?

What informational resources can the Jesse Bethel site provide with your help?

Teacher Online Resources
Education Info: All for Teachers by a Libraian whose specialty is the field of education.
Teacher Training Programs & Opportunities
Departments Home Page
Webmaster to JBHS Teachers & Students
Teacher-to-Teacher: Samples of Excellent Teacher Websites
Committee, Task Force & Working Group Home Page
VCUSD Board Policies

Essential Links:

California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP)
California Commission on Teacher Credentialing : now you can search for a credential for a public school teacher, print renewal forms from online or RENEW online!
The place to start for latest information on topics from new policies, to standards, to state mandated testing: California Department of Education
VEA (Vallejo Education Association)
Academic Word Lists from Victoria University's Department of Linguistics, Wellington, NZ. Recommended by respected education specialists and teacher trainers like Kate Kinsella of S.F. State University.
Organization for Free Software in Education & Teaching (OFSET)

Teachers! Do you know when Progress reports (PR) or grades (G) are due? Do you know when they need to be entered into the system? Right-click & download this schedule. You will need MS Word.

Imagine how more successful your students could be if they & their parents could your web page for information about course content, assignments and homework! Well, this is more possible that ever because Jesse Bethel H.S. has acquired a site license for Macromedia's MX Studio. MX Studio provides EVERYTHING you need to create and develop your own websites, including graphic software, an HTML editing program and an FTP client for uploading your pages to your own site. The site license includes teacher take-home rights so that you may begin to maintain and run your own information website.

Your school webmaster can provide after-school training in MX Studio to help you. You should have your software installed before training begins! You will be given a template w/banner for your teacher pages; content need be your only concern. If you wish to offer this level of service to your students and parents please, contact your JBHS webmaster now!

If you are a strong self-learner, your webmaster has a collection of special online resources, including FREE online tutorials, for those embarking on web page and web site design projects.

If you prefer working with templates from a teacher hosting service, once you've created your page, send us your address and we'll create the link at your own Jesse Bethel web page! Here are the two best sites offering this free service.

Teacher Web
Inspiring Teacher's “Free Web Pages For Teachers”
Would some clip art improve your class handouts and classroom posters? Find Free Clip Art for Teachers at "School Clip Art:"
Would you like a lot of online help as you research Lesson Plans for math, science, English or even P.E.? One good start is with the Open Directory Project of DMOZ, used by Google and many other search engines! There are no pop ups/pop unders or in-your-face promotions; directory navigation makes the most of your time.

About your school's website:

The Jesse Bethel web site has received and continues to receive many visitors every week. Typically, we receive between 1800 and 2300 unique visitors who return visits bring visitorship to between 2600 & 3100. Summer months experience a relatively small drop in visitorship.

Please visit the departmental pages for your department. Could it offer more information for our visitors? With your help, you bet!!

Do you serve on a committee and wish to have committee meeting times and information posted? Please contact your web master.

Help your webmaster to help you and your departments make the most of this powerful communication medium. If you find an error, please let your webmaster know what it is and on what page to find it. If someone can send the webmaster as a file attachment the competencies for various courses in your departments, they can be posted for your visitors. You may also have links for student research to contribute. Those links will be placed either under the IMC subject area links pages or at the departmental pages where links are more directly related to departmental standards and learning.

Your webmaster, also, encourages you to contribute links at your teacher's page. If you would to recommend a site, please first check to see if it isn't all ready available. Explore the wonderful resources of your own school's web site!

Committee & Special Group Links

2009-2010

Meeting Calendar (.doc)

Teacher-to-Teacher Tips

Linda Kaiser's Guidelines for Writing Letters of Recommendation for Undergraduate Applicants. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader for this PDF file.

This site was recommended for AP English teachers looking for help with their courses: Literature Works' AP English Study Material

Discovery School's Lesson Plans for Teachers is a bank of lessons for a variety of subjects and different grade levels - meeting current standards.

Invitation: If you have a special technique to get students to come to class on time or to deal with any typical classroom management issues, please drop your webmaster a line via email to share it with other staff members. webmaster@jessebethel.net

Calif. Ed. Code Sec. 44034. Any classroom teacher who, in the interest of improving his or her personal teaching techniques, wishes to use an audio recording device in a classroom to record classroom instructional presentations, may employ that device without the necessity of obtaining the approval of the school principal or other school officials.

Interested in more CA. Ed Code information or more information about our own school rules? Click here.