The following blog will serve as a supporting tool to the Course Curriculum & Instruction 473, Literacy in the Content Areas, Spring 2010, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Students from the Class of 2011 English cohort, along with their instructor, are the authors and collaborators of this blog.
LEARN NC, a program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education, finds new, innovative and successful practices in K–12 education and makes them available to the teachers around the world. It is a site with numerous different types of information on it. Some of the things include lesson plans, good strategies, classroom management and etc. For each grade level from kindergarten to grade twelve, there are numerous resources. In addition, it focuses on multiple subjects, not just English, but Science and Social Studies as well.
One of the useful parts of the website that I found useful is the multimedia section. It not only is an easy way to search for movie/video clips, but the clips are education and are appropriate to use in school. Moreover, since this is a website supported by university, it is a suitable website for usage in schools. Also one of my favorite parts is the section about conferences. Since I cannot afford to go to the conferences, the conferences that are held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are covered and give the outline of the conferences. It is very educational part of the website because you get to learn new or successful practices in teaching, but also what is new happening in the field of education.
One downside of the website is that in the field trips section of the website. The field trips focus on South Carolina and since most of us will not teach in South Carolina, this is not a useful part of the website.
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