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Guide to Information Resources in Education:
Professional Organizations

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NCATE Constituent Organizations

The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) is the accrediting body for teacher education program at the college and university level. NCATE is "a coalition of 33 pscialty professional associations of teachers, teacher educators, content specialists, and local and state policy makers."

The Web sites maintained by these NCATE constituent organizations provide access to professional resources, including discussion lists, publications, membership materials, etc. Virtually every one of these sites includes a considerable amount of freely accessible materials, as well as additional information accessible only to members.

• American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD) http://www.aahperd.org/
• American Educational Research Association (AERA) http://www.aera.net
• American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) http://www.aacte.org/
• American Association of School Administrators (AASA) http://www.aasa.org/
• American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) http://www.actful.org/
• American Federation of Teachers (AFT) http://www.aft.org/
• American Library Association http://www.ala.org/
• Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) http://www.udel.edu/bateman/acei/
• Association for Education Communications and Technology (AECT) http://www.aect.org/
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) http://www.ascd.org/
• Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) http://www.ate1.org/
• Council of Learned Societies in Education (CLSE) http://members.aol.com/caddogap/clsehome.htm
• Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) http://cec.sped.org/
• Council for Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) http://www.ccsso.org/
• International Reading Association (IRA) http://www.reading.org/
• International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) http://www.iste.org/
• International Technology Education Association (ITEA) http://www.iteawww.org/
• National Association for the Education of Young Children http://www.naeyc.org/
• National Association of Black School Educators (NABSE) http://www.nabse.org/
• National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) http://www.naesp.org/
• National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) http://www.nassp.org/
• National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) http://www.nasponline.org/index2.html
• National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) http://www.nasbe.org/index2.html
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) http://www.nbpts.org/
• National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) http://www.ncss.org/
• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) http://www.ncte.org/
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) http://www.nctm.org/
• National Education Association (NEA) http://www.nea.org/
• National Middle School Association (NMSA) http://www.nmsa.org/
• National School Boards Association (NSBA) http://www.nsba.org/
• National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) http://www.nsta.org/
• Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) http://www.tesol.org/

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Ohio Organizations

List of Ohio professional organizations http://library.osu.edu/sites/education/ohio2.php

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Other Organizations

• American Association of School Librarians (AASL) http://www.ala.org/aasl/index.html
• American School Counselor Association (ASCA) http://www.schoolcounselor.org/
• Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Education and Behavioral Sciences Section (EBSS) http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/aboutacrl/acrlsections/EBSS/ebss.htm
• National Art Education Association (NAEA) http://www.naea-reston.org/

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More Resources

Directory of Organizations in Educational Management http://eric.uoregon.edu/directory/index.html

Published by the ERIC Clearinghouse for Educational Management, this is a searchable directory of professional and research organizations in the field.

Yahoo! Directory of Educational Organizations http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Organizations

Links to a variety of education-oriented organizations, including professional, scholarly, and issues-based groups.

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