Teaching can be tough job. Teachers work hard, and sometimes do not get always get the recognition and pay they deserve. But, at the same time, many teachers are doing the job for other purposes. Helping to develop young minds is one of the highest callings that someone can have. As a result, there are many interested in teaching programs that can help them more effective do their jobs. While these programs can help, you can also get good advice from a variety of bloggers. There are a number of blogs that share teaching tips, ideas and inspiration. Here are 50 blogs that can help you be a better teacher:

Teaching Tips and Ideas

Get inspired with these blogs that offer teaching tips, ideas and even access to helpful resources.

1. Mrs. Cassidy’s Classroom Blog: Follow the students of this inspiring teacher. Sometimes her elementary students even submit posts.
2. It’s Not All Flowers and Sausages: Mrs. Mimi blogs about her experiences as a second grade teacher, offering great insights and ideas about teaching.
3. Docere Est Discere: Mr. B started this blog as a student teacher, and his musings on language and how to teach carry over to a number of subjects. The Latin title translates as “To teach is to learn”.
4. Teach For Us: Those who are involved with Teach for America blog about ways to better engage students, offering tips and inspiration.
5. Principals Page: Learn more about administration, as well as get insight into teaching and learning.
6. Regurgitated Alpha Bits: A look at teaching today, and the state of education. Includes ideas for better teaching, even with the issues facing the situation.
7. Classroom Solutions: This great blog from Scholastic provides inspiration for dealing with classroom issues.
8. Learning is Messy: A look at teaching, along with tips on how to do a better job.
9. The Jose Vilson: This inner city teacher offers insight and inspiration on teaching in difficult circumstances.
10. Indie Teacher: Get some insight into teaching, and find inspiration to be a better educator.
11. Just a Substitute Teacher: You can learn a lot about teaching from the musings of this substitute teacher.

Teaching Technology

You can use technology to become a better teacher. These blogs offer helpful information and tools that can enable you to use technology in your teaching efforts.

12. Creating Lifelong Learners: Tech savvy Mathew Needleman offers tips and ideas for teachers looking to use technology to encourage lifelong learning in their students.
13. Techno Tuesday: Keep up with technology, and its many uses in the classroom. A great resource for using media to teach.
14. Cool Cat Teacher Blog: A fun and interesting blog about using new tools to teach children.
15. Nik’s Learning Technology Blog: Helpful ideas and more when it comes to using technology in the classroom.
16. eLearning Technology: A helpful blog about online learning, and using technology to teach.
17. Technology Tips for Classroom Teachers: Helpful hints on using technology to be a more effective teacher.
18. Teaching with Technology: Learn more about how you can use technology to be a more effective teacher.
19. Free Technology for Teachers: Helpful ideas and tips on using technology, and where you can get free tech help.
20. Tammy’s Technology Tips for Teachers: Learn more about technology, and get weekly tips and tricks for better teaching.

School Subject Blogs

Learn more about teaching specific subjects. Encompasses a number of helpful blogs with targeted tips for the subject you teach the most.

21. The Teaching Palette: Art teachers can find endless inspiration and ideas for helping their students remain enthusiastic about art.
22. A Year of Reading: Learn ideas for getting children interested in reading, and teaching the joy of reading.
23. ScienceFix: Get great ideas for teaching science. Interesting experiments and inspiration for getting kids excited about science.
24. Reflections of a Science Teacher: Follow the thoughts of, and get some good ideas from, this science teacher.
25. Hooda Math Blog: A great approach to teaching math, and good ideas on how to help students grasp sometimes fiddly concepts.
26. Math Teacher Mambo: Learn about teaching high school math, and help students get the hang of it.
27. Ideas for Teaching Computer Technology to Kids: Help children learn about computer technology, and provide guidance for safe computer practices.
28. History is Elementary: Learn more about history and teaching history with interesting ideas and inspirations.
29. The History Teacher’s Attic: This high school history teacher offers great information and inspiration on teaching history.
30. The English Blog: Learn more about teaching English, and get tips on making the subject more interesting.

Teaching Special Education

One of the most rewarding and difficult things you can do is to teach special education. If you are looking for help and direction as you work with these kids, these blogs can help.

31. Ann’s Learning Disabilities Blog: Learn more about how to teach those with learning disabilities.
32. Special 2 Me: Follow the adventures of a special ed teacher in L.A., and learn inspirational ideas to teach better.
33. Teach Effectively!: This blog is aimed at helping teachers help at risk kids and those with disabilities.
34. The Life That Chose Me: Get ideas and inspiration for teaching special ed students from this high school teacher who has two children with special needs.
35. Bilingual Special Ed: An interesting blog that offers tips and insights on teaching bilingual special education.
36. Special Education and Learning Differences: Tips and ideas for better teaching when it comes to SpEd.
37. Teaching Students with Learning Difficulties: Resources, tips and more on how you can be a better special education teacher.
38. Making Special Education Actually Work: Inspiration and forward thinking about special education.
39. Special Education Strategies and More: Chock full of tips related to teaching special education students.
40. Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs: Keep up with ideas and resources for teaching those who have more than one special need.

Education News and Trends

Keeping up with the latest news and trends in the world of teaching can provide you with insights, as well as inspiration. Find helpful tools, tips and ideas when you read these blogs.

41. EduWonk: One of the best places to go when you want information on teaching tips and trends.
42. ED.gov: The U.S. Department of Education offers news, information, tools and resources related to education and teaching.
43. NEA: The National Education Association offers tips and ideas for teachers who want to improve their teaching using the latest trends.
44. Education Week: The latest trends in teaching, learning and helping students.
45. Edutopia: Offers tips and ideas for being a more effective teacher, as well as news and information about the latest trends in education.
46. Open Education: Follow the latest news and trends regarding education around the world.
47. Education News: Get the latest education and teaching news from The New York Times.
48. EducationNews.org: Follow education trends around the world.
49. Education News Blog: Helps you find interesting news from the world of teaching.
50. The Chronicle of Higher Education: Learn more about where education and teaching are going.

Since the idea for open education emerged and was realized with OpenCourseware from MIT, other “edupreneurs” have created businesses that may appeal to teachers from K-12 through college. The following list of the top 25 Web startups are revolutionizing teaching by making teaching easier, more robust and interactive for teachers, students and parents. Additionally, they provide clues for teaching jobs and revenue for teachers at all educational levels.

1. 2Tor: 2tor develops state-of-the-art technology platforms that enhance traditional offline curricula to create transformative instruction using the best educational and Web 2.0 technologies. 2tor also develops the human and support infrastructure needed “on the ground.”
2. Academic Earth: This Web site brings together academic content from various sources to create an environment in which content is remarkably easy to use and where user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable. Prior to Academic Earth, Richard Ludlow established Students for Organ Donation.
3. Apex Learning: Started in 1997 by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, this site works on the premise that online courses and test prep could be applied to K-12. After a series of ups-and-downs during the dot-com bubble, Apex Learning raised and spent $37 million from venture capital investors. Since 1999, Apex learning has served over 660,000 students.
4. Cramster: At Cramster, students can get unstuck on any homework problem whether it’s math, science, engineering, humanities, business, or writing help. Cramster offers free and premium memberships. In 2008, Cramster secured $3 million in Series A funding led by Shai Reshef, an online education industry veteran.
5. DreamBox Learning: This start up, a site that uses online games to teach math, was created in 2009 by Charter School Growth Fund, a nonprofit investment fund for charter schools. DreamBox Learning recently was acquired by Netflix. Reed Hastings, the founder and chief executive of Netflix, taught high school math in Swaziland with the Peace Corps after college.
6. Edmodo: Started in September 2008 and officially launched in September 2009, Edmodo is a private micro-blogging platform built for use by teachers and students for use in the classroom, built with the privacy of students in mind. Their free network offers a safe and easy way to post classroom materials.
7. Education Networks of America: ENA currently manages multiple statewide and district-wide education and library networks successfully serving over 5,000 end sites, 560 school districts, and 230 libraries. This ends up being more than 2.5 million students, teachers and administrators as well as more than 6.2 million librarians and patrons. ENA’s reach is quite significant.
8. EduFire: Jon Bischke founded this teaching and tutoring platform after he created two earlier education-related companies: 2000Tutor.com Network, which he sold in 2001, and LearnOutLoud.com, a catalog of educational audio, video, and podcasts. Instead of hiring professional teachers, eduFire lets anyone become a tutor and relies on the community to identify the most qualified members.
9. Flat World Knowledge: This for-profit business commissions professors to write open-source textbooks that are free online, and modestly priced for downloads or print-on-demand copies. Their books are open for instructors to modify and make their own (for their own course — not for anybody else’s). Flat World closed $8 million in VC funding earlier this spring.
10. GradeMate: GradeMate is a powerful online organizer for teachers and students to keep track of their courses — from managing grades, assignments, and events to sharing files, course notes and class discussions. Mike Gioia founded GradeMate in 2007 when he was still an engineering student at Lehigh University.
11. Grockit: Through the application of social networking and online gaming technology, the Grockit learning platform offers students in grades 8-12 a fun and engaging way to master academic skills and to prepare for standardized tests. Grockit was founded in 2007 by Farb Nivi, a former Princeton Review Teacher of the Year and academic director at Kaplan.
12. Guruvantage: Guruvantage.com is a single platform for professionals in India to come to in order to satisfy their training needs. This site provides information on training institutes, and provides you with the ability to review the quality of training you have received at the institute.
13. Inigral: With market-specific capabilities, Inigral leverages the Facebook platform across the student life cycle to address admissions marketing. An overwhelming majority of students are now on Facebook. Therefore, this platform allows for an increased yield of accepted students, student engagement, and increased retention of enrolled students and alumni involvement in order to increase donations.
14. Knewton: Founded in 2008 by Jose Ferriera, a former Kaplan, Inc. executive, this program uses uses adaptive learning technology to identify students’ strengths and weaknesses. Concepts are tagged at very specific levels, testing students’ grasp of hundreds of skills measured by standardized tests.
15. Kno: Osman Rashid, who previously started Chegg, a Netflix-for-college-text-books service, recently revolutionized the textbook, higher education and learning itself in one move with a device includes two touchscreen panels that students can use to write, highlight, watch video and read. It will launch as a student beta-test later this year.
16. Latimer Education: This is a for-profit education company that is developing an online university for African-Americans. Latimer Education received $1.25M in unattributed funding in April this year, and added Scott Royster as founder, chairman and CEO at the same time.
17. Learning Guide Network: LGN was incorporated in early 2006 with a mission of helping schools and private instructors to find students and students to find schools. Their directory and magazine covers recreational, personal and professional learning activities.
18. LectureShare: Founded in 2007, LectureShare’s goal is to allow teachers to create courses which are easily shared among universities and individuals. LectureShare intends to allow the users to define where, how and when their course material should be available to others. LectureShare currently is in early beta.
19. Peer2Peer University: In pilot phase, The Peer 2 Peer University is a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements. Peer2Peer got a $70,000 seed grant from the Hewlett Foundation to launch its first 10 pilot courses.
20. Scitable: This is an open online teaching/learning portal combining high quality educational articles authored by editors at NPG (Nature Publishing Group) with technology-based community features to fuel a global exchange of scientific insights, teaching practices, and study resources.
21. Shmoop: Shmoop is a digital textbook publisher, offering learning guides created by experts and educators. Shmoop writers come from Ph.D. and Masters programs at Stanford, Harvard, and Berkeley. Shmoop and PBS.org are the only education websites to be honored by the Webby Awards in both 2009 and 2010.
22. TeachStreet: Founded in 2007, TeachStreet is a dynamic online community that brings motivated learners and talented teachers together. TeachStreet is privately-funded and located in downtown Seattle, WA. They’ve formally launched in major cities all over the U.S. and customers have listed classes in more than 500 cities across the country.
23. Teachers Pay Teachers: Founded in 2006 by Paul Edelman, a former NYC public school teacher, TpT’s mission is to make teachers lives just a little easier by bringing together those who create curricula with those who are seeking fresh new approaches in the classroom. This is the world’s first open marketplace where teachers buy and sell original teaching materials.
24. University of the People: Open to classes in 2009, this is the world’s first tuition free online academic institution dedicated to the global advancement and democratization of higher education. Shai Reshef, UoPeople’s Founder and President, has 20 years of experience in the international education market.
25. UpToUs: Founded in 2008 with a new Web site launched in 2009, this site is a unique social network that brings parents together and helps them to organize their children’s communities, such as classrooms, sports teams and extracurricular activities. Only people in your group can see group information and each group leader acts as a gatekeeper.

With advancement in every area of life there is also an appropriate vision for teaching is driving in present world of science and technology. Below is provided a list of blogs that provide the scope of teaching in the world filled and driven with technology. The blogs are as following.

1. BlogHighEd: It is a higher Ed blogger network, which is established with focus and attention over unify community of bloggers that talk about the “higher ed” niche. It collects blogs from many areas as by webmasters, marketers, vendors, counselors, consultants and more.
2. High Techpectations: This blog is by Lucy Gray who is living at Chicago, Illinois and is an Apple Distinguished Educator and Google Certified Teacher. In this blog, community of tea hers and students as interested in Global education contributes by adding media, conversation and collaborative project ideas.
3. EDU Blogs: This blog is by Ewan who is Europe’s leading expert in digital media expert for public services especially in education. He was pioneer in setting up the most ambitious investment funds from a public service broadcaster in the UK. He is also founder of 38minutes.co.uk, the creative industries platform as restricted for the North of the UK.
4. Speed of Creativity:  This blog is by Wesley Fryer, who uses this site to digitally document his journey of learning and collaborating with other educators and life long learners through out the globe. On his blog he touches topics related to issues like web2.0 technologies, digital storytelling, education leadership, literacy, blended learning, creativity, appropriate use of educational technologies.
5. Mguhlin: This blog is by Miguel Guhlin who as a veteran educator tries to transform teaching, learning and leadership through strategic application of technology at the classroom, campus and district levels. He is a Director of Instructional Technology for a large urban district in Texas and Past President of the state-wide Technology Education Coordinator group in one of the largest United States technology educator organization.
6. Dangerously Irrelevant: This blog by Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Educational Administration program at Iowa State University is for the purpose of improving some issues related to K-12 school leaders.  More, he is the Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE).
7. NYC Educator: This is the blog by New York Educator, who is in the field of Education and is an ESL teacher in NewYork.   In this blog of him, he talks about variable differences of education pattern and new upcoming projects on education.

Education is just impossible without a proper and appropriate teacher and the present world that we are looking around would not be possible without an appropriate and right teacher. However, the great teachers of time had their own methods to teaching and learning and put through the foundation of present contemporary world. Below are mentioned some of the greatest teacher of our times who shaped the civilization to a greater extent.

1. Confucius: He was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher whose teachings have influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese life to a greater extent. In his philosophies, he advocated personal and governmental morality. His teachings developed into a system of philosophy known to be as Confucianism.
2. Aristotle: He was a Greek philosopher, student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He has written over a good number of subjects like physics, metaphysics, poetry, theatre, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, biology and zoology.
3. Johann Amos Coménius: He was a Moravian teacher, scientist, educator and writer. He was a Unity of the Brethren/ Moravian Protestant bishop, a religious refugee, the earliest champions of universal education and a concept set forth in his book Didactica Magna
4. John Locke: He was an emphatic follower of the belief that knowledge is needed to be taught.   He insisted on teaching of character first and academics later. He was of the belief that good character far exceeds the value of learning to read, write, and complete calculations and other uses.
5. Friedrich Froebel: He was a German pedagogue, a student of Pestalozzi who put forth foundation for modern education on the basis of research that students have their own specific need and capabilities for learning. He created the concept of kindergarten and coined the word as well for use in English language.
6. Henry David Thoreau: He was an American poet, author, surveyor, historian, philosopher and leading transcendentalist. He is better known for his book Walden, about simple living in natural surroundings. His articles, essays, journals and poetry total over 20 volumes.
7. Booker T. Washington: He was a noted and renowned American political leader, educator, orator and author. He was a prominent personality in the American- African community from 1890 to 1915 in the United States. He was from the last generation of those black leaders who were born in slavery and fought for the civil rights of their brethren.
8. Noah Webster: He was an American lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, word enthusiast and editor. He is known to be the Father of the American Scholarship and Education. His “Blue-Backed Speller” books have used for five generations in US to teach children English.
9. Albert Einstein: He was a theoretical physicist and his contribution to the physics is known from the special and general theories of relativity, the founding of relativistic cosmology, the first post-Newtonian expansion, explaining the perihelion advance of Mercury and others.  He is best known for his theories of special relativity and general relativity. In 1921, he received Nobel Prize in Physics for his services to Theoretical Physics and his discovery of law of photoelectric effect.
10. Ayn Rand: She was a renowned Russian- American Novelist, philosopher, playwright and screensaver and is known for her two best selling novels and starting a philosophical system that is known as Objectivism. She came into the fame with her novel The Fountainhead in 1943 and again she became immortalized with her philosophical novel Atlas Shrugged in 1957.

Online Masters in teaching is a Masters degree that qualifies an individual to teach in any academic institution as a lecturer or any other capacity in the teaching arena apart from professor. The online Masters in teaching is acquired by studying through the internet. The online mode of study is faster and cheaper. The online Masters in teaching equips the students with psychological skills of handling students of various statures and capacities. They are taught to understand the different levels of understanding of humans at different ages. They are also shown ways of exercising patience while they are teaching irate students as well as ways of nurturing students who take time to understand what they are taught.

There are different careers that one can venture into when they have graduated with a Masters in teaching. This is because the Masters equips the graduate with teaching skills for students in various capacities. Some people choose to practice in teaching colleges while others choose to do it in universities. Teaching children too is a well paying job. Some of the graduates of the online masters in teaching are hired by companies so that they can teach the new employees in the countries about the company practices and procedures.

Some of the graduates of the online masters in teaching decide not to look for employment. Instead, they open their own academic institutions and they employ other teachers. Graduates of online masters in marketing are also equipped with skills of managing academic institutions. They are given projects during the course study that require them to practice their management skills and come up with reports documenting the findings, experiences, challenges and the new skills that they have learnt. All this happens within a very short time since the students get their notes and course communication by email and online chat. This is an advantage since the online masters in teaching students can read at their own time and not the time that is fixed at the university like it is the case in local universities where one has to attend the classes.

Graduates of the online masters in teaching are all round teachers and they can even practice teaching religion in the churches, mosques and temples. The online course ensures that they are all well rounded in the teaching arena while at the same time, it emphasizes on the most efficient and ethical methods that are viable in the teaching practice.