Georgia Performance Standards

The Georgia Performance Standards are guidelines for Georgia teachers for use in the classroom.  These guidelines lay out specific goals that teachers should have for their students. The guidelines are categorized by grade and subject.

On the Georgia Performance standards website, there is a glossary of terms that a new teacher might find useful.  These terms are words that may be confusing, and need more clarification in order to better understand the standards as a whole.

I also found it very interesting that the website offers updates to the GPS.  This feature let me know that the standards are ever evolving, and also that community input is considered.

This website offers research-based education practices.

Other useful websites for teachers:

*Web 2.0 for the Classroom Teacher: An archive of valuable websites for implementing technology in the classroom.

*Quest Garden- Examples of Critical Inquiry.

*Rubistar- Site for making rubrics.

*Learning Strategies for Students- Examples of the implementation of learning strategies for students.

*Teaching and Learning Strategies- More of the same from above.

*Teaching using the News York Times- This site has lesson plans and more that incorporate the New York Times.

Websites from the 3241 textbook:

*The Strength of Weak Ties: A weblog by an educator dealing with technological issues in the classroom.

*Edublogs Awards Site: A website  presenting award-winning education blogs.

*Blogging Policies and Resources: Site that has links to blogging procedures for the classroom and letters to send home about the practice.

*Wikipedia Post: An article in support of Wikipedia.

*Pedological Potentials of Wikis: More support for the use of wikis in the classroom.

*RSS Compendium: Site where you can search for RSS feeds on the web.

*Pageflakes.com: Create a webpage using RSS feeds and such.

*Twitter Collaboration Stories: Website facilitating the use of Twitter in the classroom.

*100 ideas for using Twitter in the Classroom: More…