Description
Complete the following professional development research activities:
Professional Organizations Web Search:
Research one of the websites of these professional organizations:
National Council of Teachers of English () ; International Literacy Association (); National Council for the Social Studies ();
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
( )
National Science Teaching Association ( )
1) Find one resource on the website that is especially helpful to you.
2) Read one position statement that you have a strong feeling about, either positive or negative.
3) Write a response to this Professional Organizations Web Search. In your response, make sure you: share the resources you found most helpful from the website, summarize and reflect on the position statement you selected from the organization. Finally, respond to the following two questions: 1) What did you get out of the professional organization web search process? 2) In what ways might this professional organization be used to support student learning?
Professional Blogs Web Search:
Research the various recommended blogs listed
Black Lives Matter at School
Celebrate Science – resignations)
Education Week –
Edutopia –
Kelly Gallagher –
Kylene Beers –
National Council of Teachers of English – First-Day Actions for a Culturally Sustaining Classroom EnvironmentNotable Sentences…for Imitation and Creation –
Penny Kittle –
Read Write Think (NCTE/ILA) –
Teaching Tolerance:
1) Select one blog that you find relevant and helpful to your role as a content area teacher and a teacher of literacy.
2) Read through multiple blog entries to get a better sense of what the blog has to offer you and the intended audience.
3) Select at least one blog entry that you that you have a strong feeling about, either positive or negative.
4) Write a response to this Professional Blogs Web Search. In your response, make sure you: share the various blogs you researched, the blog you selected and why, and respond to the following two questions: 1) What did you get out of the professional blogs web search process? 2) In what ways might these blogs be useful to you now and in the future?