Assignment #2

Classroom Organization Resources

This website contains many useful links to other websites. While some may require a fee, others contain a variety of free information and teacher resources. I found a bullying archive that had step-by-step interventions at school, classroom, and individual levels. In addition, some organizational tools on another site could help keep my students work and materials in order. I also found some good tips for room arrangement that could provide a more effective configuration. Finally, I found a great link to a website that generates very useful project based checklists that I will use to create rubrics. I will also generate some for my students to evaluate their own or their peers work.

Education World

This site is full of units that cross all areas of the curriculum. I could use these as a whole, or use selected pieces, such as some charts, graphs and timelines to enhance my own lessons or my students’ progress. Another website with easy science experiments using common school objects would help meet district requirements. Another link led me to a variety of free lesson plans. Finally, I found a place value lesson that would provide a change of pace to my “usual” delivery.

New Horizons

This site has many good resources for teachers and parents of children with special needs. I found a great link that shows 55 ways to manage a “tough” class. It could very useful in planning environment, interventions, peer and teacher interactions. I found an article providing examples of how some networked computers could guide instruction in many areas, not just reading. Finally, I located an article that explained some approaches that will be helpful in working with a student I have that has a spectrum disorder.