The Teaching Tolerance website as stated on their About Us tab was founded by the Southern Poverty Law Center to help prevent prejudice benahavis, to improve intergroup relations, and to ensure fair treatment for students in school. The three biggest resources that can be used by any educator to better plan and develop lessons for the classroom are: the various articles in the magazine tab, the professional development tab, and the classroom resources tab. The latter of the three provides the most help, as it allows the user to toggle between the information they wish to search through in the left hand corner.
Continuing on with this, one can clearly find the information they are seeking when using the advanced search tools. For example, …show more content…
The professional development tab presents the viewer with three links, classroom strategies, school climate, and reflective teaching. Now, the purpose of this assignment is to find resources that can help plan or develope a lesson, all three do this, but to different degree. For example, knowing what the perfect school climate should look like can help educators present a helpful and productive classroom environment; as well as help plan how they should react to students. But, more importantly when it comes to planning and developing lesson plans is the strategies of teaching and reflective teaching. Unlike the previous resource, this requires a bit more thought, as the reflective teaching requires the educator to think about their own teaching style and to find a ways to improve it. This helps planning as it will force a teacher to always want to do better. Lastly, there is the teaching strategies, which by far is one of the best resources on this tab and may very well be the best on the website. For novice teachers having the ability to veiw all these different strategies in one place on this website is a vital resource to better themselves and their own classroom. Teaching does not always come naturally to everyone, and seeing other ideas for how it should be done can both influence planning and definitely impact how a lesson is …show more content…
The magazines in this website are not tabloides nor are they meaningless blurbs about celebrities, instead they are topics about things teachers will face everyday in our every changing world. Unlike the other resources, this is a more concise tool, yes articles can be found in the other tabs that may pertain to these topics but not to the extent that they are discussed in the magazine article. An example of this can be found in the summer 2015 article number 50, which talks about sexual orientation and how teachers should learn about it. Page 10 of the article talks about how words can be truly devastating to students; but it also talks about how to present information that may be controversial to a classroom by not using words that may cause anger or other emotions. This resource helps show teachers a more compacted view on a certain topic, meaning for my example, a government teaching talking about the recently passed same sex marriage laws by the supreme court can talk and the topic but at the same time avoid having problems in the classroom.
In conclusion, the resources on this website are abundant and available, every aspiring teacher should be able to find information here that can be useful to creating and developing lessons for class. Either by looking at what other teachers do in the professional development tabs, or through searchings in the classroom resources.
Continuing on with this, one can clearly find the information they are seeking when using the advanced search tools. For example, …show more content…
The professional development tab presents the viewer with three links, classroom strategies, school climate, and reflective teaching. Now, the purpose of this assignment is to find resources that can help plan or develope a lesson, all three do this, but to different degree. For example, knowing what the perfect school climate should look like can help educators present a helpful and productive classroom environment; as well as help plan how they should react to students. But, more importantly when it comes to planning and developing lesson plans is the strategies of teaching and reflective teaching. Unlike the previous resource, this requires a bit more thought, as the reflective teaching requires the educator to think about their own teaching style and to find a ways to improve it. This helps planning as it will force a teacher to always want to do better. Lastly, there is the teaching strategies, which by far is one of the best resources on this tab and may very well be the best on the website. For novice teachers having the ability to veiw all these different strategies in one place on this website is a vital resource to better themselves and their own classroom. Teaching does not always come naturally to everyone, and seeing other ideas for how it should be done can both influence planning and definitely impact how a lesson is …show more content…
The magazines in this website are not tabloides nor are they meaningless blurbs about celebrities, instead they are topics about things teachers will face everyday in our every changing world. Unlike the other resources, this is a more concise tool, yes articles can be found in the other tabs that may pertain to these topics but not to the extent that they are discussed in the magazine article. An example of this can be found in the summer 2015 article number 50, which talks about sexual orientation and how teachers should learn about it. Page 10 of the article talks about how words can be truly devastating to students; but it also talks about how to present information that may be controversial to a classroom by not using words that may cause anger or other emotions. This resource helps show teachers a more compacted view on a certain topic, meaning for my example, a government teaching talking about the recently passed same sex marriage laws by the supreme court can talk and the topic but at the same time avoid having problems in the classroom.
In conclusion, the resources on this website are abundant and available, every aspiring teacher should be able to find information here that can be useful to creating and developing lessons for class. Either by looking at what other teachers do in the professional development tabs, or through searchings in the classroom resources.