Friday, April 6, 2018

Ideas and Strategies on Classroom Arrangement, Structure, Activities, and Organization

Teachers' Websites For Ideas and Strategies

The Cornerstone For Teachers https://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/about/


Angela Watson is the creator of the website thecornerstoneforteachers.com. It was known first as Ms. Powell's Management Ideas for Teachers in 2003, however; it wad rename in 2008. This website helps the teacher set-up arrangement in his or her classroom. From Angela's experiences she gives you the essential needs of the classroom arrangement with pictures. Specific examples why I chose thecornerstoneforteachers is because of the visual, detailed and it provides multiple links for a teacher to arrange their classroom. The websites provides you with other teachers classroom and gives you a lot of motivation to setting-up your own own classroom in the future. Cornerstone is supportive learning environments for young learners because there are space, seating arrangements and opportunities for growth. You can see from different classroom arrangement there is little room for disruption. Students can play apart of the classroom arrangement. In addition, this website has been featured in BrainPop, The Huffington Post, education podcastnetwork, CNBC, and eSchool News.

Scholastic www.scholastic.com/teachers/home

Scholastic is an excellent websites that covers a lot of information for teachers. Scholastic supports teachers, parents and students. On Scholastic it is a lot of organization, activities, and structure for teachers to use. From the website you can print out just about anything for grades level Pre-K to 8th. What stood out the most to me was the teachers's tool kit. It provides videos, daily starters, planning calendars, magazine, workshops and a teacher store. Everything is available at a click of a button on this website.

Teacher Tap https://eduscapes.com/tap/topic.86/html 
Professional development Resources for Educators and Librarians

Founders of edscapes.com/lamb are Annette Lamb and Larry Johnson are the creators. This site gives teachers a list of websites for activities in every subject matter. These games are interactive activities, simulations, and learning games. What caught my attention are the activities. Some of the activities I do in my classroom now I see on there. The others links looks fun and the students have the opportunity to click on as many activities as they want to learn. This website can help with drill and practice, puzzles and quizzes which is amazing. All grades level will have a fun time exploring and learning through many of the activities on the website.

Everything Just So https://everythingjustso.org/about/

Jennifer Martinez is the creator of everything just so. Everything just so is a blogger made by Jennifer for busy teachers. I have been following her blog for a couple weeks and lately she has been discussing organization such as lesson planning process, resources and routines. She explains why it is important to stay organize and ahead in a classroom which is a plus because I love being organize and staying on top of everything. There are available resources, tolls and tips for a successful school year and additional resources that are useful in a classroom. This website supports teachers and students because it is a guide through being and staying organization in your classroom.