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Virginia Department of Education’s Professional Development
Learn about the Virginia Department of Education’s professional development resources and opportunities.


Virginia Naturally’s Professional Development

Find out and register for professional training opportunities for teachers.


TeachVirginia

Explore and prepare becoming a teacher in Virginia.


Project Wet

Designed to teach students how to think, rather than what to think. Special emphasis is given to understanding the needs for water by all water users (e.g., municipalities, farmers and ranchers, power suppliers, industry, recreationists, and fish and wildlife).


Teachers Institute

Learn more about the annual teachers institute, "Virginians at Work" which will be held at the Virginia Historical Society from June 19–23, 2006. The program will immerse a group of select teachers in an intensive study of the commonwealth's economic transformation over the past four centuries by focusing on how Virginians earned (and earn) a living.


Department of Environmental Quality’s Summer 2006 Professional Development

Learn about professional training opportunities for teachers from the Smithsonian Institute.


Virginia Society for Technology in Education

Become a member of VSTE to help promote the role of technology in Virginia’s educational systems.


PBS teacher resource

Teacher resource by PBS




   

Standards of Learning Resources
Find information about the content and skills related to the SOLs.


Virginia Historical Society Standards of Learning Tours

Tour an award-winning exhibition, The Story of Virginia, are tailored to meet the requirements of grade-specific SOLs.


Virginia Naturally’s Sixth Grade Science Resources

Developed with the Virginia Department of Education, provides sixth grade teachers with relevant resources to meet the Standards of Learning.


Virginia Naturally’s Classroom Grants

Learn more about the grant program to provide teachers with funding for environmental education.


Jamestown and Yorktown Lesson Resources

Find lesson ideas and resources about Jamestown and Yorktown.


Sixth Grade Science Resources

Developed by the Department of Environmental Quality in conjunction with the Virginia Department of Education, provides sixth grade teachers with the most relevant resources to meet the new Standards of Learning.


Love-A-Tree

Find out about this year's kit which focused on air quality.


Global Village

Interested in communicating with, visiting, or accessing resources of other peoples and cultures?  Find helpful pointers at Global Village.


Bay Link

Explore an educational site about the Chesapeake Bay estuary, the people living on its drainage area, and the effect the various natural and human forces have on the Bay.  Includes ideas for lesson plans, student projects and field trips.


Virginia Council on Economic Education

Find workshop and program information related to educating students about economics.


Virginia Geographic Alliance

Sponsors activities aimed at K-12 curriculum development, teacher training, assessment, and public awareness about geography.





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Teachers for Tomorrow
Find out about Virginia's statewide program for recruiting high school students into the teaching profession.


TeachVirginia Employment Opportunities

Search TeachVirginia’s job bank.


Job Opportunities

Discover job opportunities with Virginia Education.




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Healthy Virginians Scorecard
Schools can submit self-assessments for the Healthy Virginians initiative. View award winning schools.

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State Wide Triennial School Census
Triennial School Census - Virginian's 132 school divisions are gearing up for the 2008 Triennial School Census of school-age children.

 



         


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