Sunday, November 23, 2014

Outstanding Teacher Websites

For my online class, we are supposed to find four teacher websites and analyze their characteristics and their posts about classroom arrangement, structure, organization and activities. I chose the following four websites.

1) The Resourceful Room
    Found at: http://www.theresourcefulroom.com  
    This website outlines a variety of activities regarding a large amount of themes or ideas in the classroom for second graders. It incorporates fun activities for the children and easy set up for the teacher. Additionally, it uses part of the blog to show the classroom arrangement and organization that can give any future teacher ideas. The blog is easy to navigate and is fun in the ideas and creativity. It also links to other blogs making finding ideas for the specific topic you want easier which is extremely important when you are a busy teacher. 
2) Kindergarten Squared
     Found at:  http://kindergartensquared.blogspot.com  
     This blog outlines two kindergarten teachers adventures in their classroom and includes a wide variety of materials, posts, ideas and just an overall fun blog to spend time on. It includes a variety of activities for many different themes that can be used in the classroom. It also includes a wide variety of posters and such to purchase to use in your classroom. It also outlines the design of their classroom and the materials they use in the classroom. This is a fun blog with a combination of teacher ideas, recommendations, strategies and activities to use in the classroom. This would be helpful to any teacher looking for ideas on what to use in the classroom to help their children get more excited about learning. 
3) Prekinders
     Found at: http://www.prekinders.com/  
     This website and blog is perfect for the preschool teacher. It outlines a variety of activities to use in the classroom with preschool children. It also includes a variety of activities about how to organize and arrange a preschool classroom that is fun for the children and effective to teach in. It gives a variety of ideas on what to do with centers, what activities to include in them and ways to use things that aren't typically used like broken parts. This is helpful for any teacher in giving creative ideas to use with preschool children in a busy classroom. 
4) 2 Care 2 Teach 4 Kids
     Found at:  http://2care2teach4 kids.blogspot.com
    This website is also by a preschool teacher and is used in combination with a website that she had created that has a variety of resources for the preschool teacher. It includes posts about the set up of the classroom, what is helpful to put in the centers as well as ways to generally organize the classroom. In addition to classroom arrangement and structure, it includes many activities that teachers can use in their classroom that are easy to prepare and fun for the children. It also includes a fun way to transition children from activities and offers advice for the teacher in using a variety of methods. This site is perfect for teachers who are looking to get ideas or help in designing a classroom and a place to order materials for their classroom.

These websites are extremely helpful for any teacher and are fun to browse through and get ideas from. 

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