This website is useful because it offers straight forward explanations about teaching students how to dissect and analyze a reading passage in order to encounter the main idea and major focal point within a passage.
This website offers various articles about teaching topics, such as "pitfalls of wikipedia" and other topics that we will come in contact with when we are in the classroom.
The official Department of Education website offers a plan for the integration of technology in the classroom. The mission of the OET is also described: providing leadership for maximizing technology's contribution to improving education at all levels. The website offers teaching resources as well as other online services and support.
This is a great lesson plan that teaches what poetry is and exposes students to different types of poetry. Students will write their own poetry and create a poetry anthology.
I know some English majors that are also studying to achieve a Spanish endorsement...I figured some of these tips and tricks on how to teach Spanish to Secondary Ed. students would be greatly beneficial to prospective teachers!
This is a website that offers resources, lesson plans, and ideas for teaching reading and writing up to a middle school classroom. This is important in teaching the basics of these skills
This website will particularly be beneficial to my own lesson plan creation and professional development. The website offers a multitude of activities and strategies for teachers to use. In addition, it offers online professional growth training.
The strategies themselves might seem like common sense, but the explanations that back them are solid and give decent food for thought. It's also comforting to know that this teacher backs these methods after 17 years and after teaching many diverse students and subjects.
This website offers a great list of lesson plans for teaching high school English. They are a great place to start when brainstorming what types of activities to do for a text. It is especially helpful in regards to teaching grammar.
This site provides A LOT of lesson plans, for each content area, grade, etc. The site breaks up the lesson plans into sections as well, including poetry, reading comprehension, writing, etc. A great tool to gain some ideas for lesson plans in the future.
This is another page from webenglishteacher, and it lists seriously any author you would ever teach in your class. Click on an author, and instantly it points you to different lesson plan ideas about that author. So cool.
I would use this website to get ideas for lesson plans on poetry, public speaking, grammar and spelling. This is a great place for teachers of all content areas and grade levels.
This is a resource for teachers who teach English. There is an online lesson library, links to other resources, worksheets, activity ideas, and tips on lesson prep.