Alabama Learning Exchange(ALEX)

When i started this semester i did not know what ALEX or ACCESS was or anything about the programs that teachers use. After browsing through the site and all the links provided i now know what it is and how to use it. ALEX, Alabama Learning Exchange, is a fully equipped guide to show teachers how to teach and show new and old teachers new tricks to teaching and helps teachers get ideas for lesson plans. The ALEX site has many different things linked to it. It has a link where you can choose the course of study, put in your grade to be taught, and then browse through many different lesson plan ideas, and then it gives complete directions as to how to go about teaching the lesson plan. This looked very useful to me. I went through this and found many lesson plans, which i might use one day when i start teaching kindergarten. There is also a web link page, which you can click on and pick different teacher links, which will take you to many links that looked very useful. I went into this web links page and clicked on counseling and guidance and read about how to understand death and grief. I thought this was good for a teacher to read just in case a student or a family member of a student dies during the school year. Death is a very touchy subject and it is good to know how to go about talking about it. There is a link where you search for many things, a teacher workplace, and professional learning. Some of these sites were not up yet and some needed passwords to look in them and i do not have an account so i was not able to browse around these too much. I also looked around ACCESS a little bit, which looks more geared toward high schools more so than elementary schools, which i would be teaching in. Basically ALEX is a site where teachers can go to find lesson plans, find ideas for the classroom, look up how to handle certain situations which may occur, and find information for almost anything they could need to answer their questions as teachers or questions parents and students may ask.
ALEX looks very useful i thought from looking through it. I think when i become a kindergarten teacher i will probably use ALEX alot. I will probably get most of my lesson plans from the sites. They had some very good ideas. The site also showed me what i will need to achieve in teaching them each year. I actually learned alot of what i will be teaching just from looking at the site. This site also looks like it will be a great help in learning how to deal with situations, which might be very delicate. I also went into a site which showed activities kids would enjoy that are still teaching them. I saw some links that showed how it was very important to get parents involved with the kids and their school work and it had ideas and lesson plans for that. That looked like a very good idea. I think ALEX is the answer to all teachers prayers. I feel like i have learned alot about teaching just from going through the site.