I have somewhat stumbled upon the web-based resource that I will write about here; I googled the subject on accident when my computer auto-corrected a typo. Luckily, this website was the first on the list. It is the PBS teachers site. Not only is this website completely equipped with information in each subject, but for each K-12 grade level as well. Within the websites archives, information can be found in several formats; audio, video, off-line activity, etc...
Personally, I would be using this site for middle school language arts. That being said, I spent a good thirty minutes browsing the site's 6-8 Reading and Language Arts archive (http://www.pbs.org/teachers/classroom/6-8/reading/resources/). There, I found amazing teaching tools. For example, the very first link is to a teachers guide to The Diary of Anne Frank which, as I'm sure we're all aware, is required reading at this grade level. IN addition, on the following pages, I found countless poetry readings from many popular poets along with activities and handouts for students. This site has an infinite amount of resources and I look forward to using it in the future.
I mostly see myself using Excel while grading as a teacher. Unfortunately, in middle school language arts, there are few assignments that will have specific numeric grades, as would a math class. However, I will use Excel to record student participation and attendance along with their overall letter grades which will be assigned numbers. For example, A's will be 90-100, B's will be 80-90, etc... Using this program to keep tract of students grades is much more trustworthy and I look forward to using it in my classroom as well as the above mentioned resource.
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