Teacher Web Project Critique

1. A TeacherWeb would a useful tool to for a classroom. It allows the teacher to connect to families and also allow for safe web resources to be supplied to the students. The website gives the students family a chance to be involved and see what is happening in the classroom. It also gives the students an opportunity to check what homework may have been assigned while absent. It also gives them safe links to help practice skills such as math or vocabulary. The last thing Teacher Web allows students to do is get to know the teacher better. Things like the about me page give the students and families a chance to learn about the teacher outside of the classroom.

2. Some advantages of using a TeacherWeb in the classroom are it allows the students to link to the web and gives them a chance to guide their own learning and discover what you want them to learn on their own. This gives the students a chance to feel more independent in their learning. The second advantage of using a TeacherWeb is it allows you to give students the opportunity to use supplementary resources to future their knowledge in subjects that interest them on their own. You can put up practice for math, or a link to a science site that may interest a student who would like to continue to learn more about a topic you have finished in class.

However, when using TeacherWeb and sites like it a teacher must be careful to allow the students to interact with real people. Teachers will often get caught up in the things a website allows them to do they forget that the student-teacher interaction is important for student learning and development. Some activities may be better on the internet, but some are still more helpful for the students to have them complete in real life working with their peers and their teacher.