Monday, July 4, 2011
Parent Involvement on School and Class Websites
I am currently in the process of finishing up my very first class website. I'm working on numerous pages with many resources for students, teachers, and parents. My coteacher and I kept all of our student's grades on on online grading site so that parents would have access to their children's grades at any time. Only a couple of parents signed into and used the site. I'm still wondering how involved parents will be with the website once it's developed. I'm interested in finding out from other teachers if their parents use their class website. Parents, do you visit your child's class website?
Welcome To My Blog!
Welcome to my blog! I'm so glad you came to visit!
Teaching and learning is truly a journey. I have experienced ups, downs, and times in between over the past 16 years. Being a parent, and a student at SHU has greatly influenced my teaching and my learning style. It has helped me to see my students in a new light. Through this blog, I plan to share all the things I am learning, in and outside of my classroom in the hopes that it would help another teacher to grow or learn something new as well. I hope that it might also help parents to learn something that might help their children, or maybe help them to understand their children better as learners. I would also love for this blog to be a place where teachers and parents can share information with each other. Ultimately, it is such a blessing to be able to contribute to the lives of children. To know that I have had an influence on a child's life, and helped them to grow in some way is really rewarding.
There is a quote that sums it up nicely.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. 
Teaching and learning is truly a journey. I have experienced ups, downs, and times in between over the past 16 years. Being a parent, and a student at SHU has greatly influenced my teaching and my learning style. It has helped me to see my students in a new light. Through this blog, I plan to share all the things I am learning, in and outside of my classroom in the hopes that it would help another teacher to grow or learn something new as well. I hope that it might also help parents to learn something that might help their children, or maybe help them to understand their children better as learners. I would also love for this blog to be a place where teachers and parents can share information with each other. Ultimately, it is such a blessing to be able to contribute to the lives of children. To know that I have had an influence on a child's life, and helped them to grow in some way is really rewarding.
There is a quote that sums it up nicely.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) American Essayist & Poet
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