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[|www.teach-nology.com]

The first website that I chose as a resource for educators was [|www.teach-nology.com]. The site is an incredible link for professional development as it provides hundreds, if not thousands, of lesson plans, rubrics, worksheets and other useful tools for teachers. One is able to peruse the site by subject matter and it is very clean and easy to navigate.

Obviously, this would be an incredible resource for a teacher to use in developing subject curriculum. There are many different examples/samples in social studies, for example, that allow teachers to teach a lesson based on standards in many creative, different ways.

Most of the sample lessons I was able to access (it is a subscription site) were very basic and looked to be geared more towards K-8. However, what I saw looked very effective in meeting standards and creating interesting lessons for student learning.

As I mentioned earlier, the site is clean and easy to navigate as links are arranged by subject matter.

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The second site I chose to focus on was [|www.edutopia.org]. I found this site to be very helpful as it allowed educators to chose topics based on grade levels. The site also had great links like Core Strategies that included Comprehensive Assessment and Teacher Development tabs. It also had links for Blogs to share information and Community discussion boards thta included useful topics like Classroom Management and success strategies for new teachers. These links would be invaluable for a any teacher to learn and share information involving many simple and complex issues in education.

Edutopia looks to be a great resource for educators and administrators to have at their disposal to gain knowledge and share success strategies for almost any issue faced in education at any level.

Navigating the site was very easy as it clean and formatted very simply allowing users to choose topics arranged by tabs at top of page. They have taken away the frustration of searching through a myriad of information to find what you are looking for.

The information located in each tab looks to be well-wriiten and researched and very diverse. This would be a great site to use for any issue outside of developing curriculum.