on the ncte website i found a lot of great stuff that will be helpful to us, not only this year, but long after we graduate & continue on with our teaching endeavors.if you scroll over the "resources" tab, there's a drop box of beneficial things like reminders, current events, standards, etc. pertaining to the aforementioned. read down & you'll see "career opportunities." click on that & it takes you to a page where you'll find current job listings by state. how awesome is that!?!
Like Jessy, I found the "Resources" section especially useful because it includes new book titles on education, journal articles on classroom strategies and management. I also like the resource that is called the "Anti-censorship Center" under the resource tab. It gives several sources on defending works and fighting possible censorship. I also like the "Hot Topics" section because it is good to keep up with current debates and have an educated and informed stance on these issues.
If you click on secondary and scroll down to "Clips from the Web" there is a link to readfa.st. It is a website design to help you learn to... well... read faster. I played around with it a couple of minutes. It's kind of like a treadmill for reading. I figured I would try to use it, especially for this July. So much to read, so little time.
I, too was interested in the resources tab. Under it, you will find "Lesson Plans." There I found a lesson plan that I fell in love with. It was a lesson on analyzing and interpreting famous speeches as an alternative to the average texts, such as poetry, novels, articles, etc. As a Rhetoric minor, this got me super excited!
Well, as a Rhetoric major I loved the lesson plan that focused on analyzing famous speeches argument, because that is what I love. Picking apart a speech and creating meaning from interpretation using critical lenses. !!!!! I really liked that lesson plan; ti was cool to see a language and composition focused lesson plan.
This is a great thing to put in your ideas portfolio under the "specific ideas" tab. Otherwise a year from now you'll be thinking, "I remember reading about a lesson on analyzing speeches... Where was that?!"
My favorite feature of the NCTE site was the connected community, which has a link on the home page. You have to have an NCTE log-in to access the groups, but once you have one there are about 35 different discussion groups, such as 21st Century Literacies. I've found that teaching can be a really isolating experience (if you're not careful) and having as many professional groups as possible helps diminish that feeling. It's nice to read what other teachers are doing; also, each group has a document library where users can upload presentations, handouts, and lesson plans. Some of them are pretty nifty.
Note that next month you'll be required to join NCTE. I figured you needed a little more time to somehow get more money to do such a thing. Luckily the membership for students is half price. If you want to go ahead and join now, feel free. As a member, more parts of the website will be open to you.
Oh my goodness, the Career Opportunities section is absolutely amazing. You can find job opportunities listed by state. The anti-censorship section is also so helpful; there are tons of censorship rationales listen by texts that you will need to gather for each work you want to teach. Such an amazing resource!
I like how the website provides many different ways to help teachers. If you click on the "Middle" link from the homepage, and then click on "Common Core Standards", there help explaining the standards. And I really think the "Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards" will be extremely helpful in the future. Both the "Middle" and "Secondary" links also have a link that brings up books that are useful for teaching either of these.
I kept coming back to the journals that are available. There are so many periodicals about so many different aspects of teaching english. You can get a traditional hard copy subscription, or an online only pdf subscription to any of them. I found a couple that I definitely plan to subscribe to, student members get a 50% discount on top of the massive discount that you get just from being an NCTE member.
My favorite part of this website was the Resources tab. Between the career opportunities, the lesson plans and standards page, this will be immensely useful in the future. Out of all of them though I think the career opportunities page is what got me most excited. I have found several different job listings for the education field, but nothing just for English teachers.
on the ncte website i found a lot of great stuff that will be helpful to us, not only this year, but long after we graduate & continue on with our teaching endeavors.if you scroll over the "resources" tab, there's a drop box of beneficial things like reminders, current events, standards, etc. pertaining to the aforementioned. read down & you'll see "career opportunities." click on that & it takes you to a page where you'll find current job listings by state. how awesome is that!?!
ReplyDeleteLike Jessy, I found the "Resources" section especially useful because it includes new book titles on education, journal articles on classroom strategies and management. I also like the resource that is called the "Anti-censorship Center" under the resource tab. It gives several sources on defending works and fighting possible censorship. I also like the "Hot Topics" section because it is good to keep up with current debates and have an educated and informed stance on these issues.
ReplyDeleteIf you click on secondary and scroll down to "Clips from the Web" there is a link to readfa.st. It is a website design to help you learn to... well... read faster. I played around with it a couple of minutes. It's kind of like a treadmill for reading. I figured I would try to use it, especially for this July. So much to read, so little time.
ReplyDeleteI, too was interested in the resources tab. Under it, you will find "Lesson Plans." There I found a lesson plan that I fell in love with. It was a lesson on analyzing and interpreting famous speeches as an alternative to the average texts, such as poetry, novels, articles, etc. As a Rhetoric minor, this got me super excited!
ReplyDeleteWell, as a Rhetoric major I loved the lesson plan that focused on analyzing famous speeches argument, because that is what I love. Picking apart a speech and creating meaning from interpretation using critical lenses. !!!!! I really liked that lesson plan; ti was cool to see a language and composition focused lesson plan.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great thing to put in your ideas portfolio under the "specific ideas" tab. Otherwise a year from now you'll be thinking, "I remember reading about a lesson on analyzing speeches... Where was that?!"
DeleteMy favorite feature of the NCTE site was the connected community, which has a link on the home page. You have to have an NCTE log-in to access the groups, but once you have one there are about 35 different discussion groups, such as 21st Century Literacies. I've found that teaching can be a really isolating experience (if you're not careful) and having as many professional groups as possible helps diminish that feeling. It's nice to read what other teachers are doing; also, each group has a document library where users can upload presentations, handouts, and lesson plans. Some of them are pretty nifty.
ReplyDeleteNote that next month you'll be required to join NCTE. I figured you needed a little more time to somehow get more money to do such a thing. Luckily the membership for students is half price. If you want to go ahead and join now, feel free. As a member, more parts of the website will be open to you.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, the Career Opportunities section is absolutely amazing. You can find job opportunities listed by state. The anti-censorship section is also so helpful; there are tons of censorship rationales listen by texts that you will need to gather for each work you want to teach. Such an amazing resource!
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DeleteI like how the website provides many different ways to help teachers. If you click on the "Middle" link from the homepage, and then click on "Common Core Standards", there help explaining the standards. And I really think the "Supporting Students in a Time of Core Standards" will be extremely helpful in the future. Both the "Middle" and "Secondary" links also have a link that brings up books that are useful for teaching either of these.
ReplyDeleteI kept coming back to the journals that are available. There are so many periodicals about so many different aspects of teaching english. You can get a traditional hard copy subscription, or an online only pdf subscription to any of them. I found a couple that I definitely plan to subscribe to, student members get a 50% discount on top of the massive discount that you get just from being an NCTE member.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite part of this website was the Resources tab. Between the career opportunities, the lesson plans and standards page, this will be immensely useful in the future. Out of all of them though I think the career opportunities page is what got me most excited. I have found several different job listings for the education field, but nothing just for English teachers.
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