Ms. Rodriguez's Math Class

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Reflection on Mr. Salsich's Math Class Website

Link: http://jmsalsich.edublogs.org/

I really liked how it showcased and highlighted students’ work. It really emphasizes relationships, looking at the comments, I can see their mother or dad commented so it seems that parents can really know and comprehend what is going on at school. Students show themselves what they know about content on this blog. I also really like how he has blog guidelines, especially after seeing the mandatory law seminar and realize how as teachers, we can be liable for many different reasons and I would not want to be liable. I would adapt by adding more calendars, schedules, anything that is available and relevant for parent information. I would also adapt it by my own making it more creative on the layout, it is kind of wording. Personally, I really like the typical kind of teacher blog but I would like to have rich content such as in this websites.

Best,

Ms. Rodriguez

Math for English Language Learners Resource

Link: http://www.tsusmell.org/index.htm

This blog has a lot of lesson plans and presentations that seem very helpful with teaching ELL students. I thought that it was very interesting to look at the graphs that really put into perspective how far behind ELL students are in compared to the rest of the student population. It contains a lot of different lesson plans that are specifically designed for students who are ELL. This website is very data and researched based and was also better formatted to me personally. This site seems mainly used as a teacher resource for the classroom. I prefer this website rather than a blog type resource just because I am not very well versed in blogs and it can be more difficult to navigate to me. It has a lot of helpful information which for me is very important. I would rather use this type of informational website to enrich my lessons to really help English Language Learners. I would definitely use this resource to sharpen my lessons to cater the needs of English Language Learners. Although, I would have liked to seen videos or recording of modeling the lessons and how they were successful so that I could know what the optimal things that I should incorporate into my lessons.