Everyone needs a helping hand, whether it’s to get advice on
how to make a marble cake, or what to do when starting a new phrase in your
life. We all have to learn to take other peoples opinion and either makes use
of them in your own way by converting to suite your needs, or just listen and
simply say Thank You! I had the pleasure to do a mini research for finding
different websites for practicing teachers. Being that I am an up and coming
educator myself, I found these four websites very creative and informative.
When I bounced up this site I was overly impressed. Mrs.
Meacham’s site is very creative. She has the alphabet as her standard page and
under most of the letters there are subcategories where you can find almost
everything. It gives you ideas on how to set up your calendar in class, down to
different activities to help your students with Fine Motor Skills. Mrs. Meacham
also makes most of her activities printable for upcoming teachers like you and
I. Things that you learned about in school many times you hear teachers say
that it is not used when school is out, but I found it interesting that Mrs.
Meacham talked about using “Harry Wong” approach when it comes to procedures in
her classroom. This site is great and I give it 5 stars….
What I like about this site is that as soon as you enter it,
it is very inviting. It has an appeal to it that you will just want to click
and explore. It gives us upcoming teachers ideas on how to strategize ourselves
for teaching and for classroom management. There are various themes on the site
and it is placed in different months of the year and subjects of the class. For
example, Columbus Day is in October and it is also a Social Studies topic, so
it is placed in both places so the teacher can see the comparison. The way the
site is set up reflects the month that school starts to the month it ends.
Under every month have different category to reflect what is happening at that
time, whether it is back to school for September to end of the year for June. A
lot of resources are also offered on the site and printable as well.
This is a great site for teachers to get an insight on
different ways they can help their young students. It has different learning
areas like literacy; math; science and even fine motor. There are great
classroom ideas giving teachers different tips on how to handle your class on
the first day of school down to ways in which you can assess your student to
see what level they are on. The ideas on this site are pretty helpful. What I
like most about this site is the different articles that are there for you to
read about different technologies that can be used for preschoolers.
Candler’s site has a file cabinet where each subject that you
click on is broken down into sub categories. There are many lessons that
teachers can use to teach their students. She also has a list of different
strategies that teachers can use with their students. The resources that she
gave are very helpful and informative. It tells you what the strategy is about
and how you can go about breaking it down to use within your classroom. The
good thing about this site is that it is so resourceful. If you need to find a
particular book, you can go into Laura’s Books and you will find different
types of common core books that will be very beneficial for your students.
These sites that I have provided are just a few out of many
that are available for us new teachers that are up and coming. It okay to
research and find different ways to improve a skill that we have not fully
grown into as yet. Practicing teacher’s websites supports the learning
environment for young learners. Check them out and let me know what you think!
