New Teacher Websites Now Up and Running

At the Feb. 7 Orange Board of Education meeting, three teachers demonstrated their own personal Teacher Website Pages for the Board.

The process had been in the making for a long time and the presentations were the final step before the official launch.

The Website Planning Committee identified the minimal requirements for each teacher to include on his or her website.

Each site should:

•  be visually appealing

•  serve as a tool for parents

•  contain teacher’s contact information 

•  biography

•  class schedules

•  class news updated as necessary (homework info, etc)

The second-grade teacher added a show-and-tell schedule, family activity outline.

A **fourth-grade teacher added a new twist, the Wiki page, along with the required content.

**The Wikispaces is completely secure and outside people who should not be on the site, can’t get in to view the pages and will not know what is going on in the classroom on any given day.

Wiki also saves space on the Orange server, which is an added bonus.

Homework is added every Monday and updated as needed.

If a student is absent, the parent can go onto this site and download a file with the homework assignment so the lucky student won’t ever miss out on anything.

To see the teacher’s pages at the different schools and scroll down the menu for the correct grades and teachers.

For Turkey Hill School, visit http://www.oess.org/ths/

For Racebrook School, visit http://www.oess.org/rbs/

For Peck Place School, visit http://www.oess.org/pps/

For Mary L. Tracy, visit http://www.oess.org/pps/

** These are two areas that were clarified by a teacher in comments below.