EDU101ProfessionalOrganizationWiki

Your team will research the professional organizations that support K-12 teachers in their work as a teacher in your concentration. You can pick national, regional, state, or local organizations. You will each make a wiki page about an organization related to your concentration. Later, you will link to the pages made by your colleagues. Ultimately, your job is to create a resource that someone could use to compare and contrast the various organizations that serve teachers of your concentration.

Your page needs to include the following information for each of the organizations:
 * a brief description of each organization's purpose (mission/ vision/ etc.)
 * a description of the membership for each (who's in it; how many; is it local, state, regional, national, international; etc.)
 * a listing of the membership benefits (newsletters, discounts, publications, conferences, etc.)
 * the price of membership (and the various levels, e.g., is there a student discount?)
 * the URL for each organizations' website
 * contact information
 * anything else interesting

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about your professional organization wiki:
 * It's okay to copy and paste the information from the organization's Web site as long as you put it in quotes and give a citation.
 * Organize the information and use tools available in the wiki (colored text, font size, bold, italics, underline, etc.) to make it very easy to find the desired information.

A good list of [|professional organizations for science teachers] has been compiled by Dr. Herr at California Southern University, Northridge.

A good list of [|professional organizations for mathematics teachers]has been compiled by Mathforum.org. Note that some of the groups listed are not ones that you can join, but that create good resources. Be sure to pick an organization that offers a membership--typically an "association" will work but not a "center." (Site shared by Andrea C., Spring 2013)