Classroom Newsletter (NETS 1)

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Social Bookmarking (NETS 3)

National Archives
On the National Archives website I chose to explore the exhibit titled “Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II”. This exhibit archives a variety of promotional posters that were a major part of life in the U.S. during WWII. This exhibit is incredibly informative and provides students and teachers with an opportunity to view actual artifacts from a pivotal time in our country’s history. It is so important to use primary sources in a classroom. Using primary sources helps to insure that the information you are providing your students with is relevant and, most importantly, accurate.

National Education Association
I chose the following three areas from the NEA’s “Becoming a Culturally Competent Educator”:

- Engage school staff in discussions and activities that offer an opportunity to explore attitudes, beliefs, and values related to cultural diversity and cultural competence.

- Network with other schools that are developing and implementing culturally competent systems. Adapt the processes and information that are consistent with your school's needs and interests.

- Network with parent, family, minority community, and faith-based organizations concerned with the needs of diverse students. Solicit their involvement and input in the design and implementation of initiatives for culturally, linguistically, racially, and ethnically diverse groups.

I believe whole-heartedly in the idea of teaching for the individual. I chose these three areas because I believe that teaching to each of my students’ individual needs requires the collaboration of teachers, families, schools, and the community. Through such a collaboration, teachers can gain a well-rounded understanding of all of their students and adapt their teaching styles accordingly.

KidsClick!
Through KidsClick.org I found a great site called Poets.org. This site is an excellent resource for any high school English teacher. It provides biographical information on a vast array of poets as well as many links providing information regarding the poets. This site is also a great resource for high school students as it is listed at a reading level of grades 9-12.

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
I explored the Literature & Language Arts section of Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators listed under the Subject Access section. This is a great site that contains a long list of links related to the Literature and Language Arts subjects. These links are a valuable resource for any English teacher. Some links provide lesson plans and classroom activities and others allow teachers to access literary archives. I can definitely see myself using any one of these great resources in my future classroom.

Instructional Module on Multiple Intelligences
While exploring Multiple Intelligences, I read a section exploring the relationship between Differentiated Instruction and Multiple Intelligences. I found this section incredibly informative and interesting. I believe in individualized instruction, and this segment of the Multiple Intelligences website offered a more in depth look at applying differentiated instruction in the classroom. This is a model that I can see myself applying in my future classroom to help me provide my students with the individualized instruction they need.

Teaching Tolerance
Under the Classroom Activities link on the Teaching Tolerance website I found a classroom “game” called Origins. This activity has students explore the origins of words to better understand their history and meaning. This activity is a great way for students to gain a deeper understanding of words and phrases as well as understand some of the more derogatory and prejudiced meanings of many of the common words and phrases used today. I would love to apply this game to vocabulary lessons in my future classroom. I think it would be a great way for my students to truly understand the words they are studying while also learning how to live a more tolerant lifestyle.

Multicultural Education & Equity Awareness Quiz
I found questions 11 and 13 of the quiz to be the most interesting:

11.) Based on a 2007 report from the Economic Policy Institute, the annual earnings of the average full-time U.S. worker is roughly equal to: the daily earnings of the average CEO in the U.S.

13.) According to the U.S. Census Bureau, how many U.S. citizens are millionaires?
Roughly 2,600,000

I was aware that there is a large socio-economic gap in America, but I was not aware how vast that gap was. As the daughter of average working class parents, I was especially shocked to see the comparison between the annual and daily incomes of average full-time workers and CEOs.

Netiquette Guidelines
Score: 100%
It is absolutely crucial to teach students about Netiquette. So much of our students’ worlds take place online now that it is important that they learn the rules of online behavior. Many students are unaware that there are rules for online behavior because they tend to forget the human element (Rule #1 of Netiquette: Remember the human.) If we can teach our students proper Netiquette, they can learn to use the internet properly and successfully. @}->--

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