Website Pages
11-19-2009, 04:12 PM
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This is what I think is the most important to include:
1. Home Page
The home page needs a title, perhaps setting forward some metaphor or theme that will be repeated in the rest of the site. Your home page should include your name (with a working e-mail link), perhaps an appropriate picture of yourself, and other attractive photographic or visual elements.
Your home page also provides links to the other main pages in yours site, including those for students, parents, teachers, your professional portfolio, your teaching philosophy, and any personal information. To achieve this, you should create a navigation bar, place in a consistent location on every page.
2. Student Page
This page should include on-line syllabi, links to sites that support activities you might use as a teacher, links to e-communities that could supplement your course, recommended reading lists for your students, and learning activities such as WebQuests.
On this page you may want to summarize your teaching philosophy in an appealing way and add links to your complete philosophy and other professional or student work or writing you have done. You can include "handouts" or resources for classes you teach, grading information, expectations, rubrics, etc.
3. Parent Page
Again, your parent page might link to your teaching philosophy, allow you to post student work and grades, provide links of interest to parents and other sites you think parents would find important. Here are some recommended sites for parents.
4. Teacher Page
On this page for teachers and colleagues you can post links to lesson plans you have created, teaching ideas from professional journals and from the Web, links to professional teacher organizations, and other links, resources, or materials that might interest teachers or colleagues.
5. Teaching Philosophy Page
This page should demonstrate your professionalism and philosophies. Use current professional and theoretical language, and write the page so that it can be understood by a variety of potential audiences including future employers, colleagues, students, and parents. Be sure to break up your text into manageable sections by using anchor tags.
6. Professional Page
This page can serve as your teaching portfolio and may be especially important for your intern supervisor and future employers. Post professional materials and accomplishments from your teaching and/or teacher preparation courses and intern teaching. Include your resume. Consider using .pdf format to make your resume more attractive. For advice on how to create an attractive electronic portfolion, check out Helen Barrett's site.
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