Personal+Learning+Network

Online Professional Development TAP
[] The homepage for this website gives tips and links to articles that will help not only teachers but students as well manage time, advice with tests, and importance of education among other articles. The articles on the front page are also of different subject areas, and relate to anyone who visits the site. This site really promotes teacher growth and is broken up to into easy to use sections with tags, pages, and categories for all teaching needs at the click of the mouse. In the future, even before I become a teacher I will continue to do this site. The articles are broken down into an easy to use layout, and informative but explained in a very easy to read way. This site is very manageable and worth going back to.

[] This site caught my eye the second the home page loaded with what it offered to those who ventured to the site. It offers “46,000+ lesson plans, 9,600 free printable worksheets, rubrics, teaching tips, worksheet makers, web quests, math worksheets, and thousands of other great teacher resources.” This site definitely promotes professional development because if you are pressed for time, you can always come to this site to get ideas or actually use what they offer. Using this site will help me get ideas for future handouts, rubrics, lesson plans, and how to make worksheets look fun and exciting to students. When formulating your own rubric or worksheet, they made it so you can personalize it any way that you want to and include what you want to and exclude what you don’t. There are a few more steps you have to go through to get to what you want compared to the previous site, but it is worth the extra couple seconds and clicks in the end.