When I looked at the Study Guides adn Strategies site I liked how everything was laid out. It seemed to look at each phase a teacher goes through when planning, teaching, assigning homework or classwork to preparing students for thier test. I really thought it was neat that it had sections that advocated for the student athlete and ADHD.
The Kathy Schrock’s Guide For Educators was neat is its own way, because it had different subjects and links to good resources for the topics you may be teaching. I did not really see anything that really struck me as a Instructional Strategy, I may not have been looking in the right area though.
The Educational Reference Desk was cool. I liked how it had different instructional strategies for reading a text book, or Television Companion materials. I am going to explore more about the different links to aid students in reading textbooks.
The best of the resources was the Graphic Organizer site. I like how while students read they can pull out a topic and add more bubbles to that topic which gives the student more time to comprehend and think about what they read. To me the more students are provoked to stop and think about what they read, then to write down bits and peices of what they understand or what they may have questions about they will learn and remember that material alot better.
The Global Classroom site looked to me to be more for younger elementary students rather than middle school. Some of the links that I opened on the site looked as if they could be used for the middle school classroom. This site though did only focus on LA and Math. I never did find anything for Science or Social Studies.
