Create a post on your personal blog or wiki (the one you created for EDCI5825) with three hyper linked content-area specific resources (websites, texts, videos, other artifacts, etc.) you would like to use as a teacher. Write a description to go along with each resource that provides a rationale for selecting the resource. Your rationale should include a description of your beliefs about:
How people learn,
How "good teachers" teach, and
How students develop competency in your content area.
Teachercreated.com is a website I stumbled upon while preforming a simple Google search of the topic, "Creative teaching resources". This particular website caught my attention because of the free monthly calendars offered as a teaching resource tool. The monthly calendars offered a wide range of topics to stimulate interest and variety in the classroom. Each day the calendar is filled in with a fun fact giving the students an opportunity to explore their imaginations.
I feel students learn best by igniting their minds with curiosity leading to critical thinking questions. “Good teachers” will discover the interest in their students with useful tools like the calendar offered on the teachercreated.com website. The instructor can incorporate the new fact into a morning round group session in order to get the students minds working creatively. Considering my content area is Special Education, my responsibility to students will be to stimulate interest in an imaginative fashion. My students will develop competency in all content area courses with the help of a inspiring educator willing to use all avenues of instruction to reach each student.
Throughout my search I also came across a website which I found to be extremely helpful. The website offers different links to educational and interactive games useful for Special Education students. Taking a deeper looking look into the website I was shocked to find out it was created by a Special Education teacher on Blogspot.com, the very website the class was introduced to a week earlier. The creator also provides links to many other websites useful for teaching basic skills. Regardless, the information on the site looks to be extremely helpful.
People learn in a multitude of fashions while children enjoy fun, exciting games as a great tool for teaching. This website offers all of this for children receiving Special Education Services. “Good teachers” understand this concept and seek useful information like what is provided on this particular blog. Providing new and fun avenues of education for special needs students is key for teachers seeking to create a successful learning environment in all content areas especially Special educators.
The last website I discovered is extremely useful for Special Educators in almost all aspects of teaching. The website offers free lesson plans, printable worksheets and graphic organizers. Grade level and subject categorize the lessons plans and other appropriate documents. Another important and interesting feature of the website included a category devoted to tips for Classroom Management. Many new teachers find this task very difficult as they enter the classroom for the first time. The website gives clear instructions on how to manage your classroom given the task at hand. One link provides access to an article titled, “ Elementary Teacher Survival Guide”
Keeping in mind the three questions, people learn when they are provided the tools to success. This website provides different options for teachers to give their students their various keys to learning. Competency can be attained through enforcing concrete studying skills. The website delivers the devices teachers should use to enforce critical and essential skills students need to utilize in order to grow as a student.
Theresa,
ReplyDeleteThe inclusion of your intro paragraph makes this blog post high-quality and useful for future readers!
GNA