Webenglishteacher.com is a great, free website primarily for middle and high school English teachers with many resources on pretty much every subject. It offers many lesson plans dealing with reading, writing, and researching. It themes a certain subject as its main page but the side bar contains tons of different categories. The main page I have recently previewed was a plethora of ideas on how to introduce biographies. It gives teachers tons of ideas on how to present, teach, and write biographies. This is extremely helpful for teachers who may not be knowledgeable on a certain subject. This website is also a great resource for any teacher who may get stuck with a certain subject and wants to creatively engage their students.
On the side bar of this website are many other subjects that all English teachers will be teaching at one point. Some of these include book reports, grammar, journalism, drama, and poetry. These are only a few of the many topics listed. The great thing about these topics being addressed is that all of the lesson ideas and plans are posted by real English teachers who have used these assignments in their own classrooms. Many of these lesson plans include great writing assignments for the students to engage in. Each tab offers at least ten different ideas for how to teach and interact with students during certain lessons. Some even post reviews on how a certain lesson went which is extremely helpful.
Even though this website is very simple it is always going to be useful to have a resource to reference to when a teacher gets stuck coming up with new ideas or strategies. All teachers are going to need help during some period of their career. If we all get together and think creatively, like many have done on webenglishteacher.com, our jobs will become a little less stressful. I will definetly use this in my own classroom as a new teacher because of the options it offers. There are so many ideas and concepts posted by other teachers that I have grown to trust this website as reliable. I highly recommend this website for any teacher, new or experienced, who just wants some good ideas to introduce in their classrooms. Please check it out for yourself!
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Samantha, thanks for your kind words about Web English Teacher! I started the site to help save K-12 teachers some time and to "give back" something to the profession that has meant so much to me. Best of luck to you and your classmates who will soon be my colleagues.
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ReplyDeletethanks for providing this information really it is helpful
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