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The very first time I stepped into a school as a teacher was in Australia. The principal guided me through the school grounds and explained most students were either emotionally disturbed or refugees. He thought the best way to immerse yourself into the field of education was to simply dive into it. We strolled into a courtyard surrounded by a very tall wall. He pointed to a student who was riding a bicycle very close to the edge of the wall. Just as I was trying to wrap my head around the fact that a child was able to get a bicycle up on the roof, the student hopped off and teetered along the edge. The principal looked at me and said “Coach him off the roof” and walked away. At first, I stood there stunned into silence trying to grasp at what I should do. The student was getting more and more unstable so I made a quick assessment of the situation and began talking to him. It was probably one of the most frightening, yet exhilarating times in my life and one I wouldn’t change for the world. It took me about ten seconds to read his personality and about a minute to discover what tactic to use to get him down. Luckily for me, the whole process was over in about ten to twenty minutes with the student safely and cheerfully on the ground.
After teaching in Australia, I made my way to England and then Canada. I’m one of those people who can’t turn off their job even when I’m on vacation. I’m constantly thinking of my previous and future students. I spent a lot of time travelling around Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and the UK collecting interesting little resources I could use later in the classroom. Nothing really prepared me for my first job in Canada. I would be responsible for launching an unprecedented pilot project, but we were severely understaffed. In the end, I was responsible for teaching 50 courses simultaneously and so was my only partner. Believe it or not, that was probably the simplest of our duties. As a person who always embraced a good challenge, I took it upon myself to learn as much as I could about each of these subjects. Not only did I never leave the library when I wasn’t in a classroom, but I would eventually find solace in journals that discussed how best to approach teaching these subjects and using various technologies that might better aid you in the classroom.
Here is a list of some of the journals I read at the time. Sometimes you will still catch me in the library reading the journals. I hope you enjoy them.
ART EDUCATION
Art Education (Journal of the National Art Education Association)
www.Arteducators.org
Arts and Activities
www.artsandactivities.com
School Arts
http://www.davisart.com/Portal/SchoolArts/SAdefault.aspx
Information on company only
Canadian Society for Education through Art
http://www.csea-scea.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=91
LITERACY
Australian Journal of Language and Literacy
http://www.alea.edu.au/resources/ajll-archive/ajll-archive-2011
Book News (Canadian children’s)
http://booknews.bookcentre.ca/archive.html
Children’s Literature in Education
http://www.springerlink.com/content/0045-6713
English four to eleven: The English Association
http://www.le.ac.uk/engassoc/publications/41144.html
English in Australia: The Journal of Australian Association for the Teaching of English
http://www.aate.org.au/view_journal.php?id=49
Read Write Think
www.readwritethink.org
Language
www.languagemagazine.com
Information on company only
Kids Can Press
http://www.kidscanpress.com/canada/by-CURRICULUM-C4914.aspx?section=6
MATH
Mathematics in school for secondary and college teachers of mathematics
http://www.m-a.org.uk/jsp/index.jsp
Mathematics Teaching
www.atm.org.uk
SCIENCE
American Biology Teacher
http://www.nabt.org/websites/institution/index.php?p=31
School Science
www.schoolscience.co.uk
LEARNING DISABILITIES
British Journal of Learning Disabilities
www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/bld
American Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
http://aaiddjournals.org/toc/ajmr/117/2
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities)
http://aaiddjournals.org/toc/ajmr/117/2
Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/jir
Information on company only
Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness
http://www.afb.org/afbpress/pubjvib.asp?DocID=jvib0601toc
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Applied Cognitive Psychology
www.Wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/acp
Australian Psychologist
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1742-9544
British Journal of Educational Psychology
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)2044-8279
Canadian Psychology
http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/cap/sample.aspx
Child Development
http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-CDEV.html
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
http://online.liebertpub.com/loi/CYBER
Developmental Psychology
http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/dev/sample.aspx
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/jcpp
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
British Journal of Educational Technology
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8535
Educational Media International (The Official Quarterly Journal of the International Council for Educational Media)
http://emi.cardet.org
Tech Learning
http://www.techlearning.com/CurrentIssue
HIGHER LEARNING
Change: The Magazine for Higher Learning
www.changemag.org
The Chronicle of Higher Education
www.chronicle.com
Times Higher Education
www.timeshighereducation.co.uk
OTHER SITES
Early Childhood Education Journal
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1082-3301
Education Week
http://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html
Educational Horizons Magazine
http://pilambda.org/benefits/publications/educational-horizons/
Instructor
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/instructor/index.htm
International Educator (National Association of International Educators)
http://www.nafsa.org/publications/default.aspx?id=32303
Teaching Geography
www.geography.org.uk
Teaching Thinking and Creativity
www.teachthinking.co.uk
Tech directions
www.techdirections.com
Information on the organization only
Adult Education and Development
www.dvv-international.de
Canadian Music Educator
www.cmea.ca
Child Education Plus: Fantastic resources for teachers and children aged 5 to 11
www.childedplus.co.uk
Chinese Education and Society
http://mesharpe.metapress.com/app/home/issue.asp?referrer=parent&backto=journal,10,200;linkingpublicationresults,1:110902,1
EFTO Voice (Elementary Teacher’s Federation of Ontario)
http://etfovoice.ca/site/
Education Forum (OSSTF – Ontario Secondary School Teacher’s Forum)
www.osstf.on.ca
Education Today
www.opsba.org
English Journal: National Council of Teachers
www.ncte.org
History of Education Quarterly
http://www.historyofeducation.org/index.htm
The History Teacher
www.thehistoryteacher.org
History of Education Researcher
www.historyofeducation.org.uk
Exceptional Children (Council for Exceptional Children)
http://www.cec.sped.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Publications2/ExceptionalChildren/default.htm
Green Teacher: Education for Planet Earth
www.greenteacher.com
List/Link of Educational Journals
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/showPublications?category=43983488
Learning Disabilities Research and Practice
www.TeachingLD.org
Mathematics Teacher (National council of Teachers of Mathematics)/ Mathematics teaching in the middle school
http://www.nctm.org/publications/toc.aspx?jrnl=mt
Middle School Journal
http://www.amle.org/Publications/MiddleSchoolJournal/Articles/March2012/tabid/2586/Default.aspx
Modern English Teacher
www.onlineMET.com
Music Educators
www.nafme.org
Physical and Health Education Journal
www.phecanada.ca
Reading today
http://www.reading.org/General/Publications/blog.aspx
Rethinking schools
www.rethinkingschools.org
Science Learning Centre
www.sciencelearningcentres.org.uk/courses-and-events
Teaching music (national association of music education)
www.menc.org
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