http://www.pbs.org/teachers/newsletter/ is a well know organization that has been providing resources for teachers and using media and technology to build knowledge, critical thinking, imagination and curiosity for all children. One of PBS kids focus is to encourage children to interact in the community and to be respectful citizens in society. By working as a team, parents, teachers, and caregivers can helps to encourage children to be successful in school and in life. Some of PBS’s resources include PBS KIDS and PBS KIDS GO! The television series include pbskids.org, pbskidsgo.org, PBS Parents, PBS Teachers. PBS KIDS educational resources assist in the development of preschoolers in four areas. These areas are cognitive, social, emotional and physical.
PBS kids are funded by a Ready To Learn grant from the United States Department of Education. The main focus of the grant is to expose children 2-8 to age appropriate programs, games, playful Web sites, and easy-to-use learning resources for kids, parents, caregivers, and teachers.
Another website that I believe could be considered an international site would be the www.scholastic.com. The scholastic site is focused on reading readiness for all children. I have used this site for many things from lesson plans, skill build, and information on classroom management and as a resource referral for my parents. The thing I like the most is that it can be used in English and Spanish.
One thing that I noticed in each is that each offers professional development for teachers. This is important to have due to the many changes that is taking place in education. The professional development offered within the site includes effective teaching practices, self- development and standards based learning. Even though I have used each of these sites I tend to use the scholastic one more. I have gathered a lot of resource information for my parents and other teachers. Because I deal mostly with the Hispanic population it is nice to get information that is already translated into Spanish.
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I think that the teacher trainings provided by PBS are great. I was not familiar with them until I went to a National Family Childcare Conference a few years back as a presenter and went into one of their sessions it was amazing. I look forward to learning more through your experiences with these websites.
I also think it is great that they have information in both languages they seem to be very good at providing everything they do in both languages.
Thanks,
Jill
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