BETAC - Teacher Links

http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/biling/iti.htm - A Tuition Assistance Program for Bilingual and English as a Second Language Certification Coursework in General and Special Education

Language and Culture

Voices of New York

{http://www.nyu.edu/classes/blake.map2001/}

Library of Congress Country Studies

{http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html}

Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR)

{http://www.sietar.org}

Fostering Intercultural Harmony in Schools

{http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/8/topsyn7.html}

Multicultural Education

{http://www.nwrel.org/comm/topics/multicultural.html}

An Extensive Selection of Online Foreign Language Dictionaries

{http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages.html}

Informe - Database of magazine articles, periodicals and newspapers in Spanish

{http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/nysl_ca_renssel}

EBSCOhost Espanol - full text and bibliographic databases

{http://search.epnet.com}

Language & Culture

{http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/resabout/culture/}

Digital Workshops for Teachers of Native American Students

The U.S. Department of Education's Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative, in collaboration with Office of Indian Education, is proud to announce the launch of the Digital Teacher Workshops for Teachers of Native American students. The workshops are designed to provide professional development opportunities for teachers of American Indians and Alaska Natives in all grade levels and content areas. The workshops support mastery of academic content and application by modeling strong teaching methods that have been successful in the classroom and providing a classroom application component, and additional resources.

{www.t2tweb.us/nativeamerican/}

The Story Teller

Imagine a world where all human beings are like children or kids: human beings of all ages that want to read stories, fables, and riddles ...

Come, meet a world of ...

Once upon a time ...

This website is a great way to engage students into not only reading, but making reading fun. As students read these Stories, fables, and riddles they can cultivate a sense of passion for reading and even an interest in writing. These humorous tales can develop the inner voice that many youngsters have within them.

This website can also be one of those websites that children can go to without parents and/or teachers having to be worried about parental controls. It’s an educational website with means to educate and stimulate young ones brains without making them feel like they are even reading. Below please find the humorous website link:

{http://www.terra.es/personal/kokopaco/home.html}

Children Stories

Here you can find the story you have always been looking for, because there is more than 600 stories that are alphabetized. Your cooperation is important, participate sending your stories. The objective is to be able to store here a great number of stories so they can be readily available for young readers. This website is a working process tool that is used as a story storage website. This website does not only contain alphabetized stories but also contains, audio stories, 157 stories of Hans Christian Anderson, visual stories, 101 classic stories from India, pictogram stories, and much more. The email address to submit any Spanish stories is pacomova@eresmas.net

{http://pacomova.eresmas.net/}

Top Ten Languages in Questar III BETAC Region

Chinese and Latinos in the Capital Region

{http://www.archives.nysed.gov/projects/legacies/leg_cd.shtml}

Spanish

Spanish versions of content area texts - Prentice Hall

http://phcatalog.pearson.com/co_home.cfm?site_id=241%20

Best Spanish Language Web Sites

{http://lone-eagles.com/miglang.htm}

Hot Internet Sites ¡n Español!

{http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listspanish.html}

Chinese

China Page

{http://www.chinapage.org}

Urdu

Urdu Language History and Culture

{http://www.rpi.edu/dept/union/paksa/www/html/pakistan/urdu1.html}

Russian

Russia on the Web

{http://www.valley.net/~transnat/}

Window to Russia

{http://www.wtr.ru}

Arabic

100 questions and answers about Arab-Americans

http://www.freep.com/legacy/jobspage/arabs.htm

The Arab World: Information and Resources

{http://cecilmarie.web.prw.net/arabworld/}

Arabic Words in English: A List of Cognates

{http://www.al-bab.com/arab/language/lang.htm#words}

Pashtu

The History of Pashtu

{http://www.afghan-network.net/Ethnic-Groups/pashtu-history.html}

Korean

An Introduction to the Korean Language

{http://www.langintro.com/kintro/}

Culture of Korea

{http://www.geocities.com/mokkim/khistoryindex.html}

Albanian

Information on Albanian Culture

{http://www.albanianculturalheritage.com}

Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian Language

{http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=SRC}

Other Languages

Triqui

http://www.san-andres-chicahuaxtla.8m.com/

Content Areas

Teaching Math and Science to English Language Learners

{http://www.nwrel.org/msec/just_good/8/index.html}

Help Kits

{http://escort.org/index.php?q=node/149}

Supporting Early Literacy in Natural Environments/Apoyando La Alfabetización A Etapa Temprana En Ambientes Naturales

{http://www.walearning.com/PDF/Spanish_level_1_activities.pdf}

State Standards/Assessments

General

{http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/osa/}

Wonderful resource, providing example tests, games, quizzes, study guides and links.

{http://www.regentsprep.org}

SUNY's New York Network Regents Review

{http://www.regentsreviewlive.net/}

General

A great website with access to lesson plans and educational resources.

{http://www.thegateway.org}

Dave Sperling’s Famous Website: Dave’s ESL Cafe

Racial Achievement Gap

Helping Youth Develop their Racial and Ethnic Identities

http://www.casey.org/Resources/Projects/REI

Metro Center's Equity Assistance Center

Scientifically Based Research

NCREL's Using SBR to Guide Educational Decisions

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/go/go900.htm

What Works Clearinghouse

http://www.w-w-c.org/

The Center for Comprehensive School Reform

http://www.csrclearinghouse.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Technology

Language Learning and Technology

{http://llt.msu.edu}

9/11

National Association of School Psychologists: Coping with National Tragedy

{http://www.nasponline.org/resources/crisis_safety/terror_general.aspx}

100 Questions and Answers about Arab Americans

{http://www.freep.com/legacy/jobspage/arabs/}

Educational/Professional Organizations

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)

{http://www.actfl.org}

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

{http://www.ascd.org}

Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)

{http://www.cal.org}

Escort

{http://www.escort.org}

Help for Schools

{http://www.helpforschools.com}

National Association of Bilingual Education (NABE)

{http://www.nabe.org}

New York State Association of Bilingual Education (NYSABE)

{http://www.nysabe.org}

National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (formerly NCBE)

{http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/}

Teachers to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL International)

{http://www.tesol.org}

New York State Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (NYSTESOL)

{http://www.nystesol.org}

Greater Capital Region Teacher Center

{http://www.teachercenter.org/}

Federal and State Agencies

U.S. Department of Education

{http://www.ed.gov/index.jsp}

New York State Education Department

{http://www.nysed.gov}

New York State Bilingual/ESL Network (NYSBEN)

{http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/biling/nysben.html}

NYSBEN Publications

{http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/biling/nysbenpub.html}

Administrators

Contact information for administrators in all QUESTAR III districts

http://www.nysed.gov/admin/admindex.html

School Districts Websites by Counties

http://www.strose.edu/Current_Students_and_Faculty/Career_Center/schooldistricts.asp

Links to State Education Documents

Home Language Questionnaire

{http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/biling/hlq.html}

Commissioner’s Regulations Part 154, Apportionment

{http://www.betac.org/pdf/Part154Amendments.pdf}

For Individual District Allocations of Title III Money

{http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/deputy/Documents/funding-opport.htm}

Board of Regents

{http://www.regents.nysed.gov/}

No Child Left Behind

{http://www.NoChildLeftBehind.gov/}

ESL Learning Standards

{http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/biling/resource/ESL/standards.html}

Bilingual Education Online Courses

Buffalo State College

http://www.buffalostate.edu/uip/onlinelearning.xml

Bookstores

Libreria La Tertulia

http://www.tertulia.com/

Editorial Universidad

http://www.laeditorialupr.org/default.aspx

Publishers/Resource List

Alibris

http://www.alibris.com/ - Sells used books, used textbooks, and rare, out-of-print books from a worldwide network of independent booksellers.

ASCD

http://shop.ascd.org/ - On line store committed to the mission of forging covenants in teaching and learning for the success of all learners.

Asia for Kids

www.asiaforkids.com - Publishes books to CD-ROMs to make the language and culture a living experience for kids of all ages.

Attanasio and Associates

http://www.attanasioandassociates.com/ - Offering standards-based classroom libraries in all content areas; intervention materials that make a difference and really work; and dictionaries, both word to word accommodations and foreign language. In response to a strong clamoring from the field, we published Getting Ready for the NYSESLAT and Beyond.

Center for Applied Linguistics

http://calstore.cal.org/store/default.aspx - Provides a comprehensive range of research-based language and cultural education resources and testing tools. CAL's experienced staff of researchers and educators is committed to using the results of our research and projects to develop practical resources related to language learning, cultural orientation, linguistics, and more.

EAI Education

http://www.eaieducation.com/math.html - Offers a comprehensive selection of Math and Reading educational materials, literature books and test preparation

ESL Net

http://www.esl.net/ - ESL.net offers software, videos, textbooks, and consultation services to English learners, teachers, and professionals worldwide.

Heinemann

http://www.heinemann.com/

Heinle Cengage

http://elt.heinle.com/ - 25 Thomson Place, Boston, MA 02210; Phone: 877-NEED-ESL - Heinle is the publisher of innovative instructional materials for English language teaching and learning in K-12, Adult Education and Higher Education.

Holt, Rinehart and Winston

http://hrw.com/index.htm

Mantra Lingua Ltd.

http://www.mantralingua.com/ - Bilingual Children's Books, Bilingual Children's Toys, Bilingual Children's Posters, Bilingual Children's CD ROMs, Bilingual Children's CD's, ...

McGraw Hill

http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/edu/default.shtml

Oxford University Press, Oxford Picture Dictionaries

http://www.oup.com/us/corporate/publishingprograms/esl/titles/cd.rom/opdi/?view=usa

Peepal Tree Press

http://www.peepaltreepress.com/ - Publishes challenging and inspiring literature from Caribbean, Black British and some South Asian titles.

Prentice Hall

http://www.prenticehall.com/

Queue, Inc.

http://www.qworkbooks.com/qworkbookad.html - Publishes and distributes CD-ROM titles in a variety of subject areas.

Saddleback Educational

http://www.sdlback.com/ - Offers materials for grades K-adult in a range of subject areas, including science, social studies, and language arts.

Scholastic

http://www.scholastic.com/

Shen's Books

http://www.shens.com/ - Specializing in children's picture books and fairy-tales for a variety of age groups and cultural backgrounds.

Teacher's College Press

http://www.teacherscollegepress.com/index.html - Teachers College Press presents the latest in educational books.

US Department of Education products (incl. NCLB)

http://www.edpubs.org/webstore/Content/search.asp - Overview of sources for U.S. Department of Education publications including ED Pubs., Innovations in Education, Education resources for Spanish speakers.

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