Wednesday, March 31, 2010
School Flyers
Although I am not a teacher I am the President of the school's PTO and I know when I do flyers I make sure they are on nicely colored paper so they stand out from the other information that the students are bringing home. I can honestly say that I am one of those parents that reads everything that comes home in my sons' backpack, however there are times that I look at flyers, brochures or information and think that it could be done differently to catch the attention of many of the parents who I know don't read the information. Sometimes to just take a few extra minutes to create a flyer or brochure that is pleasing to the eye, may help greatly in getting the parents to read the information. I think the design is key in this.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Educational Merits for Classroom Site
First, I am sorry for not posting sooner, I have had two very sick boys home the past three days, one at the ER and other just sick. So again I am sorry for not posting sooner…
I believe it is very important for a classroom teacher to maintain a classroom web site. I am not in a full classroom yet, I just started co-teaching a writing class. However, I am noticing that many of my students are on the internet chatting and “surfing”, I think it would be a great idea to get their minds working on a web site they design and can help maintain. Perhaps it can get their creative writing flowing.
I found an article: Using a classroom webpage to communicate with parents (http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/689). This article was great, it was about a first-grade teacher who created a webpage to communicate with the student’s parents.
The Website consisted of: welcoming statement including contact information and times that she checks email each day.
A link to her daily summaries page. The news for each day is posted in different fonts and/or colors and replaced daily with the corresponding weekday. For example, on the day I visited Kathleen’s class, she erased the previous week’s text for Monday, March 10 and wrote the date and news for Monday, March 17. The previous week’s Tuesday through Friday summaries remained on the site to be changed as the week progressed.
Each Monday, Kathleen sends home a weekly newsletter with students. This newsletter is also posted each week on the site. Through the newsletter, Kathleen sends information about curricular units, upcoming field trips, homework, and/or requests for parent volunteers.
At the beginning of each school year, all parents in Kathleen’s classroom are provided with a handbook outlining school policies and classroom procedures. Throughout the year, parents can access the handbook through Kathleen’s site. As the grade level chair, Kathleen is responsible for selecting appropriate sites to be included on all the first grade teachers’ classroom pages. Students and parents are encouraged to email sites to her for inclusion in this section.
Another section of the site includes pictures of students and samples of student writing. (Students’ last names are never used, only initials. Some parents have also requested that their children’s first names not be used.)
This website was a great way to get parent’s involved in their children’s day and classroom. This would be great if all grades were this enthusiastic about their teaching and the children’s learning.
I found a website: http://www.ehow.com/how_4531502_creating-website-teachers.html, which discusses and gives detail on how to create a website for teachers, it is quite informative.
I believe it is very important for a classroom teacher to maintain a classroom web site. I am not in a full classroom yet, I just started co-teaching a writing class. However, I am noticing that many of my students are on the internet chatting and “surfing”, I think it would be a great idea to get their minds working on a web site they design and can help maintain. Perhaps it can get their creative writing flowing.
I found an article: Using a classroom webpage to communicate with parents (http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/689). This article was great, it was about a first-grade teacher who created a webpage to communicate with the student’s parents.
The Website consisted of: welcoming statement including contact information and times that she checks email each day.
A link to her daily summaries page. The news for each day is posted in different fonts and/or colors and replaced daily with the corresponding weekday. For example, on the day I visited Kathleen’s class, she erased the previous week’s text for Monday, March 10 and wrote the date and news for Monday, March 17. The previous week’s Tuesday through Friday summaries remained on the site to be changed as the week progressed.
Each Monday, Kathleen sends home a weekly newsletter with students. This newsletter is also posted each week on the site. Through the newsletter, Kathleen sends information about curricular units, upcoming field trips, homework, and/or requests for parent volunteers.
At the beginning of each school year, all parents in Kathleen’s classroom are provided with a handbook outlining school policies and classroom procedures. Throughout the year, parents can access the handbook through Kathleen’s site. As the grade level chair, Kathleen is responsible for selecting appropriate sites to be included on all the first grade teachers’ classroom pages. Students and parents are encouraged to email sites to her for inclusion in this section.
Another section of the site includes pictures of students and samples of student writing. (Students’ last names are never used, only initials. Some parents have also requested that their children’s first names not be used.)
This website was a great way to get parent’s involved in their children’s day and classroom. This would be great if all grades were this enthusiastic about their teaching and the children’s learning.
I found a website: http://www.ehow.com/how_4531502_creating-website-teachers.html, which discusses and gives detail on how to create a website for teachers, it is quite informative.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Discussion - website
This was my first web site I ever created. At first I found it frustrating because many of the items I tried to post I couldn't view, but after alot of trial and error I felt a little better. As I am keeping my site up to date, I am learning more techniques and more ways around the site. I think web site design has the potential to be very useful for a special education teacher or any teacher if it is maintained properly and kept current. It also has to has to keep the focus of the "audience" being the parents and students.
Creating a Website for Teachers
Very imformative website in case anyone is interested in setting up a website for their classroom.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Many facets of being a teacher..
If a doctor, lawyer or dentist had 40 people in their office at the one time, all of who had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or desntis, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then they might have some conception off the classroom teacher's job.
Donald D. Quinn.
Donald D. Quinn.
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