Week 5 Blogs for Educators

Melissa's Secondary Education Blog

(Yes she does have the same name as me)

Melissa's Secondary Education Blog is very informative and interesting to read. The topics that she chooses to blog about are important for teachers. A lot of her posts have to do with frequent questions that educators ask themselves. What I like about her posts is that she gives her own opinion but then she also sites articles with other people's opinion that backs hers up. Some of my favorites were "I have to go to the bathroom" and "Creative Effective Field Trips."

For the "I have to go to the Bathroom," the first question is what does the teacher do when a student continually has to use the bathroom? And does the teacher need to take an interest in this "problem". Then if so what is she going to do about it. I have often thought about this when I was volunteering in elementary classrooms. Often times when a students asks to go to the bathroom at least one or two more hands shoot up at the same time too. This blog gives teachers ideas on how to handle these students and ways they can do it.

Very interesting blog that would be useful to look back on.