Professional Developement

Today I visited www.Starfall.com. I went into the educators tab. This site has so much good information for the parents and teachers. This site is desinged to help children learn how to read. It has many good reviews by both the teachers and parents. The site helps the children with motivation, phonimec awarness, systemetic awarness, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehenshion. It has so many different things that the children can do to learn. The children like to do this because the website made it so fun, like a game. So the children don't even think that it is learning, but fun.
My daughter came home from kindergarten one day and she wanted to play a game on the computer. She told me it was a game she played in her classroom, I thought that we would not be able to play the game thinking that it was a program only for school. Thankful I did try it and yes it worked, my daughter loved it.



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Professional Development Plan

I visited http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic21.htm today. I went to Educational Portals and starting Points. This webpage helps the teachers find a good website by putting a yellow star next to the websites name. This website has so much information on linking you to other good resourceful websites. Even other ones like higher education resources, subject directories and thematic starters for educators, focus on children, focus on young adults, and subject specific resources. On here I saw a few of the websites that I have been on before and I have to say that those websites are very resourceful. I am sure that I will make use of this website when I become a teacher.

I want to know more about... websites like this one, learn more on how to make things in my classroom useful for the students, how students use the technology in their homes, what parents know about technology.

Professional Development Plan

I visited www.education-world.com today. This site has so much to offer: lesson planning, professional development, technology integration, administrator's desk, school issues, and much more that is under more resources. Wow this website has so much to offer to teachers. They have so many great lessons that the teachers can use in their classroom. This website has probably any the lesson that you could think of. It has so much information about anything that you could think of. I think that this website would be one of the websites that I would use when I become a teacher and it might be the only one with all that information I don't think that I would not find what I am looking for.

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Children's thoughts on the lessons being taught,

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Professional Development Plan

I visited www.K12conection.org today. On this page there were many different topics that we could choose from like: early childhood education, K12 education, educational activities, elementary education, toddler learning, virtual schools, and many more. I chose virtual schools and from there I clicked award winning virtual school. From there I went here http://www.thejubileeacademy.org/who/principal1.php. This site is about a home school program that parents can use to home school their children at home. The program is called The Jubilee Academy. I read on the principle of this virtual school. Her name is Karlie Margaret Houser who believes that learning comes through touching, hearing, and seeing. Not just in the classrooms, but rather really life experiences. She came up with a curriculum herself that later was used by her neighbor Fred Rogers. The program shows on PBS it is called "Mr.Rogers Neighborhood". I remember I used to see this show when I was a little girl. This is all so interesting, to find out about home schooling and that this particular academy is has a relationship with "Mr. Rogers".

How many children are home schooled?

Do they like being home schooled?

What is the difference of being home schooled and going to a public school?

Is "Mr.Rogers" still on PBS?

Professional Development Plan

I visited www2.scholastic.com, this web site has so much information. The home page alone has tone of information for everyone, students, parents, and teachers. I went to teacher resources. This page has anything that the teacher would imagine: lesson plans, strategies, tools, printable, for new teachers, free programs, giveaways, and ideas for your classroom. I think that this is a great web site for all teachers they can come and get different ideas that they can incorporate in their own classrooms. It is important for teachers to keep their students attention while still learning in the classroom. I think that I will use this web site when I become a teacher, I enjoyed seeing all the different information that is provided on this web site. I will start using this web site as a parent, also.

I would like to learn more about....

web sites like this one, different things that I can take to my classroom, free programs, being organized, and managing time in my classroom.

Professional Development Plan

I visited http://www.pbs.org. This is very interesting information I learned, I had gone on this website before but I had no idea that they had PBS TeacherLine. I had gone on this website with my daughter to play games, which are very educational. TeacherLine offers graduate-level courses on reading, language arts, mathematics, instructional technology, instructional strategies, and science. This site helps the teachers gain more knowledge and it helps out the schools. The teachers will have better teaching methods that they acquire by the graduate courses, so the students will learn more.


How will this site help me help my students?
How will this site improve my understanding?
What other sites like this are there?
Will I be able to get my masters on line?

Professional Development Plan

I visited http://www.edutopia.org. This site had a lot of information on what works in public education. They had a lot of information like videos, magazines, blogs, and a lot of different tools that a teacher can use in their classrooms. I read the article on "Why is teacher development important?". http://www.edutopia.org/teacher-development-introduction This article talked about how important it was for the teacher preparation programs to have hands on in classrooms. Having a mentor once they are teaching, and how it is very important for veteran teachers to have professional development. To help them be up to date on how students learn, and learning how to implement technology into their classrooms.

Other things that I would like to know more about...
technology in classrooms,
programs students could also use at home,
programs for teachers,
hands on project to do with the students.