Resource Guide:
Elementary Education
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
- Occupational Outlook Handbook Teachers – Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle and Secondary
- U.S. Department of Education
- U.S. Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
- National Education Association
- Virginia Department of Education
- Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
- Philosophy of Education Society
- Virginia Professional Educators
- American Education Research Association
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Elementary school teaching
- Education, elementary
- Education, elementary – aims and objectives
- Elementary education – curricula
- Elementary education – curricula, United States
- Education (elementary) Great Britain
- Education, elementary – handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Education, elementary – parent participation
- Education, elementary – periodicals
- Education, elementary – social aspects
- Education, elementary – standards ‚ United States
- Education, elementary – United States ‚ evaluation
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Education
- Education as Change
- Education Digest
- Education Innovator
- Education Next
- Education Review
- Education Statistics Quarterly
- Education Week
- Education Policy Analysis and Strategic Research
- Educational Theory
- Elementary School Journal
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Rethinking standards through teacher preparation partnerships | e-Book |
| The flat world and education: how America’s commitment… | LC213.D37 2010 |
| Saving schools: from Horace Mann to virtual learning | LA226.P44 2010 |
| Artful teaching: integrating the arts … across the curriculum | LB159.5.U6167 2010 |
| Liberating learning: technology, politics, and the future… | LB1028.M625 2009 |
| Teaching the female brain: how girls learn math and science | QA11.2.J36 2009 |
| American education | LC191.S684 2014 |
| High-stakes testing and the decline of teaching and learning | LB3051.H89 2008 |
| The best schools: how human development research… | LB1131.A729 2006 |
| Awakening children’s minds | HQ767.9.B465 2001 |
| What kids need today’s best ideas for nurturing, teaching… | e-Book |
| Movement + music: learning on the move, ages 3-7 | GV452.W436 2004 |