Our assignment in class last week was to consider all of the elements involved with choosing and critiquing a web page that you will use in the classroom. We were allowed to choose any web site on the internet for our assignment. This proved to be a bit of a challenge because since this is a piece of work I will be graded on, I wanted the perfect website. The unfortunate part of this story is that you could spend years searching for the "perfect" website...and I only had an hour and a half. I initially was going to choose a site through our materials given by Kathy Schrock, and found one made by teachers that gave great ice-breakers for the first day of school, but I wanted something with a little more information.
That's when I went back to our dear friend, Google, and typed in 'teaching websites'. This opened the floodgates and thousands of options were available. But part of the assignment was to prove the validity of the website and search through it to find out whether the information you're getting has been accounted for by a body of education.
I finally chose a site called "Teachers Helping Teachers." It was created by the director of the Pacific Singers Musical Theatre Group, a man named Dr. Scott Mandel. The site is basically a place where teachers can come and post any lesson plans on any subject and use any of the lessons already posted for their classrooms. It has been in use for 15 years, and teachers from all over the country take advantage of this resource. All educators that leave lesson plans have to post their name, email, and name of the school or teaching status. I enjoyed reading all of the different ideas and can see myself using this resource in the future for my classroom.
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