Sam’s Online Journal

For this task we were suppose to rank each resource according to our own preferences and find at least one more resource. This is what I ended up with:

Rank of 1 (Low Priorty)

• Professional Learning Community forums
• Teacher Radio

Rank of 2 (Neutral)

• Colleagues / peers from UTS
• Membership of Professional Association
• Paper or web-based e-learning journals
• Teachers’ weblogs
• Magazines (mass media)

Rank of 3 (High Priority)

• Teacher colleagues in school
• Conferences 
• List-servs / email newsletters
• Teacher Success Story sites
• Newspapers
• General teaching sites

These are the two resources I found:

Teacher Portfolios: Individual teachers create these portfolios to keep records of all their knowledge (existing and new. Most begin these whilst at university. I gave this a ranking of 2 and said it should be free.

Computer Software:The example of this resource that I found was Teacher Talk by Kay Toliver; it is meant to inspire teachers to try new approaches in mathematics. I gave this a ranking of 3 and said the school should provide this for the teachers. The advantage I saw of this is that teachers can take this home, or do it in school when they have the time (for example during RFF lessons).