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Teacher Education Resources

Resources and procedures for students working toward certification in K-12.

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Search for your topic by Keyword.
                        Example:  Biology Study and Teaching Elementary
     Then:         Once you locate a "good" choice in the results list, display the complete entry, and look at the Subject Headings.

Example of finding subject headings in a library catalog book record.

When searching SLUth - Search Plus, try using the following as SUBJECTS, along with your topic and some related keywords for it.

Teaching Methods in SUBJECT OR Science--Study & Teaching in SUBJECT
AND
Elementary Education in SUBJECT
AND
Your topic plus related terms -- Example:  Microbiology or microbes or microorganism* or bacteria or fung* in All Fields

Reference from SLUth with subject headings for more terms to search.

When searching Education Source, try using the following as SUBJECTS, along with your topic and some alternative keywords for it.

Teaching Methods in SUBJECT OR Study & Teaching in SUBJECT
AND
Elementary Education in SUBJECT
AND
Your topic plus related terms -- Example:  earth science or geology or meteorology or weather or climatology in All Fields

Reference from Education Source showing subjects to search.

When searching ERIC, try using the following as SUBJECTS, along with your topic and some alternative keywords for it.

Teaching Methods in SUBJECT
AND
Elementary school science in SUBJECT
AND
Your topic -- Example: physical science or physics or chemistry or forensics in any field

Same reference from ERIC with additional subject headings.

Select just the Education ebooks. Next do a search for
     molecular biology in All Text Fields
AND
     elementary students in All Text Fields

LIMIT by SUBJECT in the left-hand column to science--study and teaching (elementary)--united states

The results are shown below.

Results from Molecular Biology and Elementary Students search of EBSCOhost eBooks.