PDQ (Professional Development QuickTips)
Creating Resource Sites for your Teachers
Category:
Digital Content
Tip:
As professional developers, you probably incorporate information literacy skills as you teach educators how to find, use, and evaluate web sites. I have found that many of the teachers I work with would like me to do the background work for them and post sites based on the curriculum they are teaching. Some ideas you might want to try:
- Use resources from sites such as eThemes mentioned in the previous tip.
- Ask teachers to give you curriculum areas that they would like supplemented with web resources.
- Co-develop a lesson or activity with your teachers to use as a model in a staff development session.
- Create a website with instructions and links to relevant resources.
- Model the website in a professional development session.
Teachers find that if they point to credible and valid sites instead of having students search for sites, they can manage students better by keeping them focused on the research they need to do to understand the content.
Submitted by:
Barbara Bray
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How to get teachers to attend workshops
PDQ Coordinator: Barbara Bray, President, My eCoach
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