The gallery project I chose was the second one. This project asked us to find web pages which would provide students' parents with information about questions which they may be asking. I decided to find web pages that provided information on how to help students learn better study skills and homework management. I believe this is a very important topic for parents to learn. The reason why I believe this is so important is because learning cannot end in the classroom. In order for students to achieve to be the best that they can be, they need support in the home as well as the classroom. When parents are able to take the time to sit and help their children, it not only benefits the student, but it enables parents to know how their children are succeeding, where they are struggling and what they are learning in the classroom. Parents may also have strategies which they implemented when they were in school that could be different from what the teacher is teaching and beneficial to their children. Parents should know their children better than anybody else and should also know their capabilities and temperament and can be a great asset toward their learning. They can help build up their child's self-esteem with words of encouragement and pride and with the proper strategies, can really promote their child's education. At the same time, if the proper strategies are not implemented, this support could prove to be detrimental if it goes against what their child is learning in school. To try to help parents know which strategies to use and how, I believe that it will help students to become the best at doing homework that they can and the best test takers which they could be. For this reason, I searched the web for sites that would provide teachers AND parents with very useful strategies to use in the classroom and at home.
Although I have found that it can be difficult to find good websites which have these RSS feeds, when sites are found, they could prove to be very beneficial when I become a teacher. For student learning, having the RSS feeds on a classroom websites will allow students to easily find pages which I would like them to use for various assignments (without having to search the web and have the possibility of inappropriate sites popping up), coursework or other activities which I wish for them to do. Students will be able to stay up to date about what is happening in our classroom and for their assignments. Having the RSS feed will allow students AND teachers to know when new information has been added to sites which I would like them to be using since new content is automatically added. It is perfect for communicating with parents for many reasons. For example, as I stated above, it can enable parents to easily find tips which I believe prove to be beneficial which they can use to help their child succeed in the classroom. It allows students and teachers to stay up to date on what they need to know for succeeding. As a teacher, using RSS is important for professional development, because in our world of ever growing technology, an RSS feed can help us to find, exchange and implement information and resources which are useful for us in our classrooms. New content will automatically be uploaded for me to view and to be able to use for my own teaching advantages.
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Elissa,
I too agree with you when you say that learning can not end in the classroom. I believe that it is very important for parents to be involved with their child’s education, and that includes working with them at home. If children do not get support at home, they might not be motivated to do well in the classroom. Before reading your post, I did not realize that you could use RSS to make sure students are up to date about what is happening in the classroom and with assignments. Additionally, the blogs that are found in your widget are very beneficial and I will certainly refer to them in the future.
Good job!
Carrie
I thought that maybe I was the only one who was having trouble finding sites for my aggregator, but it's a bit of a relief to know that I wasn't the only one (though I mean that in the nicest way, of course! :) ) I mentioned to another blogger who talked about parental involvement about how important it is in determining a child's success, so it's good to have so many sites to refer to! The first site on your blogroll - Planning a Wedding Overseas - threw me off for a minute though (though it 'did' get me to click on the link :); that's when I saw it was an ESL site!)
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