Educational Philosophy

I have to post my "Educational Philosophy" on my Xavier Web page. Here is what I wrote:


    Communication.

    No matter what your education, no matter what your occupation, no matter what your economic status, there will come a time when it will be necessary to communicate with other human beings. You will need to make your messages clear. You will have to understand their messages. Both sides will have to take action based upon how well each party communicates those messages.

    My job – as a teacher – is to help facilitate that communication.

    I am the gatekeeper to a world of understanding.

Web sites for teachers

Greetings, 

     I had to gather these together for my web page, so I thought I would share them. Here are a few handy links for the budding language arts teacher (a few, such as refdesk.com and elizabethan.org, are good for other teaching fields, too):

Grammar Girl

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/

Refdesk.com

http://refdesk.com

The Subversive Copy Editor

http://www.subversivecopyeditor.com/

Oxford English Dictionary

http://www.oed.com (needs personal, school or library subscription)

Web English Teacher

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/

Edutopia

http://www.edutopia.org

National Council of Teachers of English

http://www.ncte.org/

Newspapers in Education

http://nieonline.com/

William Shakespeare

http://www.william-shakespeare.info/

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/

Renaissance: The Elizabethan World

http://www.elizabethan.org/

Famous Poets and Poems

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/