School-based initial teacher training through the GTP route. UK.

Includes news, publications, meetings, teacher preparation information, professional development, and state chapters.

Contains information and discussion concerning the following conceptual aspects of assessing teachers' effectiveness: purposes; category of teachers to be assessed; conceptions of teachers' work; dimensions of teacher quality; approach to establishing validity of assessments.

Weblog covering the whole first year out of college as a teacher.

A national resource dedicated to teacher development. Offering several support programs designed to equip the new teacher with necessary skills and support for success in the classroom.

Includes how to get a job, teaching jokes, classroom discipline tips, and pros and cons of public and private schools.

Information about helping new teachers.

School-centred initial teacher training in the Southampton, UK area which promotes high standards of teaching and learning based on a Catholic philosophy of education.

TFA is a national teacher corps of recent college graduates who commit two years to teach and to effect change in under-resourced urban and rural public schools.

An executive non-departmental public body whose purpose is to raise standards in schools by attracting able and committed people to teaching and by improving the quality of teacher training.

A former Teach for America corps member reflects on the program and offers advice to prospective applicants.