Sunday, January 18, 2009

Alabama Learning Exchange

The Alabama Learning Exchange is a resource website for k-12 teachers. It has several very detailed sections that are extremely valuable to teachers today. By clicking on this link one can be taken to ALEX’s homepage, with a list of helpful items.

Some of the sections on the Alabama Learning Exchange’s include: course of study guidelines, lesson plan advice, important web links that a teacher may find helpful, and a personal workspace area where a teacher may create and save lesson plan data. Alex also has a powerful search engine to help teachers quickly find subject matter. I believe that this site can be very important to inexperienced as well as seasoned educators today.

This website will help me greatly in the classroom by giving me the resources I need to teach and learn new lesson plans. It will also keep me up to date with current curriculum changes in any grade k-12. Since I am planning to become a physical educator, it is imperative that I successfully teach the kids healthy exercise habits, and I believe that this website will keep me current on the latest methods of doing so.

The Alabama Learning Exchange website is also very user friendly, in that every thing is organized, and various colors are used to identify the different sections, I wanted to try out the course of study function and was surprised at how easy it was. I first selected physical education and selected the fifth grade as my grade level. That brought up a page that had sixteen objectives that may be used for lesson plans. Overall I would say that this website is very effective in helping out teachers.

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