What did you get out of the professional blogs web search process? In what ways might these blogs be useful to you now and in the future?

Professional Development Online Research

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 (www.ncte.org) ; International Literacy Association (www.literacyworldwide.org); National Council for the Social Studies (https://www.socialstudies.org);

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

(https://www.nctm.org )

National Science Teaching Association (https://www.nsta.org/publications/ )

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 https://www.blacklivesmatteratschool.com/

Celebrate Science – http://celebratescience.blogspot.com/(Recent resignations)

Education Week – http://www.edweek.org/ew/section/blogs/index.html

Edutopia – https://www.edutopia.org/latest

Kelly Gallagher – http://www.kellygallagher.org/

Kylene Beers – http://kylenebeers.com/blog/

National Council of Teachers of English – First-Day Actions for a Culturally Sustaining Classroom EnvironmentNotable Sentences…for Imitation and Creation – http://greatsentences.blogspot.com/

Penny Kittle – http://pennykittle.net/

Read Write Think (NCTE/ILA) – http://www.readwritethink.org/

Teaching Tolerance: https://www.tolerance.org

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?