My digital portfolio- All about education

My obectives are to create materials and share my ideas with other teachers.  Others can review my work, offer feedback, and post on my guestbook.

Included in this portfolio is my philosophy of education, technology-based resources, take-home items to give to parents and guardians, as well as other teacher resources.

This website offers many ideas, including ideas to create flyers, newsletters, concept maps, lesson plans, quizzes, etc.

It also offers an entire social studies unit, science unit, and children's book analyses about elementary-aged children's books. Guided reading lesson plans and story elements project are also included in the Reading section of the webiste (left side).

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” -Albert Einstein

"The whole object of education is to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works." -Sherwood Anderson

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The education of a man is never completed until he dies."- Robert E. Lee

"When teachers value and respect students, focus on their abilities, and create a supportive social environment, students thrive." - Marilyn Friend

* Listen

* Don't give up on a student

* Show confusing things in other ways

* Focus on redeeming qualities about a person

* Make students feel like part of a community