http://www.teachnet.com/how-to/manage/
This site offers many, many ideas of games and activities to incorporate into any classroom management plan. In this way, it makes discipline fun but relevant. Some of these ideas are very creative which can be modified for different learning levels and abilities.

http://www.brains.org/classroom_management.htm
This site offers an article that breaks down discipline and teaching. It covers a brief history and description of how teachers are taught classroom discipline. The site investigates many theories, what works and what doesn’t work. It also gives behavior management recommendations as well as references.

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/tv/browse.php?term=350200000000
This site offers classroom management articles for each grade level. The articles contain helpful steps and suggestions to develop a management plan or even to remedy problems within the classroom.

http://www.proteacher.com/030000.shtml
This site offers a wealth of resources for teachers. It offers a message board for teachers of all grade levels. Here teachers can post questions, problems, comments, and receive assistance and suggestions from other teachers. In addition, the site offers some articles and a behavior management survey.

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/assess.html
This site offers everything you need to know about rubrics. It explains the reasoning behind them. There are multitudes of sample rubrics as well. It offers many rubrics for evaluating student web pages as well. It also offers many resources to other rubric sites and articles related to rubrics.

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/tv/tvsearch.php?keywords=assessment&go.x=0&go.y=0&sitesearch=1
This site offers numerous resources for teachers looking for assessment information. It includes articles and many printable pages for a teacher to use and modify. A free trial membership is offered but it appears one needs to become a member which may cost money.

http://www.rmcdenver.com/useguide/assessme/online.htm
This site is Texas based, but offers excellent tips on incorporating and developing lesson plans around your expectations and assessment. It covers how to communicate expectations to students and parents as well. It also informs you how assessment can improve student scores and your teaching as well.

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr2port.htm
This site offers support for creating student portfolios out of classroom notebooks. It offers reflection questions for students to answer. The question process also guides the student step-by-step when evaluating and putting the portfolio together. This is very useful for an educator who already has the students keep their work but needs a way to convert it into something presentable.

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec596r/students/Abrenica/Abrenica.html
This site offers information on electronic portfolios. It begins with reasoning as to why electronic portfolios should be used. It then explains how to create an electronic portfolio. It also lists resources and internet assistance.

www.newhorizons.org/strategies/differentiated/front_differentiated.htm
New Horizons for Learning provides helpful articles for teachers to read in order to learn more about differentiated instruction and meeting the needs of all learners. This is a great support system for teachers regardless of experience with differentiated instruction!

www.manhattan.k12.ca.us/staff/pware/diff/index.htm
This website provides a variety of differentiated lesson plans in all subject areas for K through 12 classrooms. This site shares the five elements of good instruction. In addition, it also contains material on three types of intelligences: analytical, practical, and creative.

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/di.htm
This site is a “one-stop shop” for learning about differentiated instruction and how it works in the classroom. There are numerous articles focusing on the components of differentiated instruction and there are sample unit and lesson plans.

http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/motiv.htm
This is an outstanding website. It contains a great deal of information but it is simplified and well laid out. This site offers general strategies, instructional behaviors that motivate, course structure, and de-emphasizing grades as ways to motivate students. It also includes a great reference list.

http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content2/Student_motivatation.html#Help
This site offers basic information highlighting what is motivation, the factors that influence motivation, intrinsic motivation, and fostering motivation in school. The site also offers related articles on gifted students and students with ADHD.

http://www.nwrel.org/request/oct00/textonly.html
This site gives very detailed information on motivation, research on motivation, and increasing motivation in schools. What is unique about this website is that it offers a lot of information on motivating and homework. It shares tips and techniques to make homework time productive and painless as well as how long different ages of students should spend on homework.

http://www.edpsycinteractive.org/topics/motivation/motivate.html
This site informs from the scientific aspect of motivation. It is very detailed and discusses in great detail the humanistic needs and desires in relation to motivation. It offers many graphics and charts, including Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. This site is would be used for the scientific reasoning for what motivation is and how it is developed.

http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/affective/motivation.html
This site offers straightforward information for motivation. It gives simple suggestions as to what to do to motivate students. Much of the material on this site is also on the other websites, but not in as much detail. The best part of the website is the three presentations on student motivation that are linked at the bottom of the page.