Alternative Teacher Certification

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, is an index of education-related journal articles and materials from scholarly organizations, professional associations, research centers, policy organizations, university presses, the U.S. Department of Education, and other governmental agencies. This link connects to the database on the Ebscohost platform.

Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

An easy-to-use online resource that provides multimedia content to complement children's and young adult books. Resources include audio book readings, book discussion guides, lesson plans, and more, for over 40,000 children’s and young adult books in English and Spanish.

Professional Development Collection is recommended for locating full text articles from educational journals covering all educational levels on a variety of topics, including practical information, evidence-based research, educational theory, developmental psychology, and educational administration.

Explora for Elementary and Primary Students offers a search interface that is easy for K-5 students to use when looking for articles, books, and encyclopedias on a variety of topics, including animals, art, music, geography, language arts, math, science, and social studies. The database is relevant to students enrolled in MCC's Alternative Teacher Certification Program, students taking Child Development courses, and students or community members with school-age children.

Explora for High School is an easy-to-use search interface for students in grades 6-12 looking for magazine and newspaper articles, books, informational texts, primary sources, multimedia, and more on a variety of curriculum-related topics. The MCC Library lists this resource for students in the Alternative Teacher Certification program, its relevance to community members visiting the library, and its relevance to MCC students with school-age children.

MAS Complete is designed for high school researchers and provides multidisciplinary, full-text access to magazines, reference books, biographies, primary source documents, photos, maps, and flag images.

Learning Express Library is a resource organized into targeted centers, with tutorials, practice tests, ebooks, and video courses to help users improve core academic skills, pass the GED, prepare for college entrance exams, join the military, study for occupational certifications, navigate the job search process, and much more. To use this resource, users must create a personal account, enabling your progress to be saved.