Kinsey+Laurens



Hi! My name is Kinsey Laurens. I am an Early Childhood major at Clemson University. I have had a passion for teaching for many years and am maturing every day in my quest to learn how to be a great teacher to ALL students. I am a very laid back person who loves to laugh and have a good time. I love to be in a classroom where laughter is present and the students are having a great time learning. In my spare time, I love being outdoors. I love to hike or spend time on the water. This year is my last year before I become a certified teacher. Every moment I have I am using to learn and grow to become the best teacher I can be.

Kinsey Laurens' PLN

During this assignment I have researched and found three website on my own. The first is Education World. I have used Education World in many of my classrooms to find lesson plans and get general ideas about lessons. Education World has almost anything you can imagine involving education. It is updated daily and contains articles about education issues around the country. The second site that I found was A Year of Reading blog. I am not a blogger and have never thought about going to blogs as a resource until this past week. A Year of Reading critiques new children books that come out. It also gives tips about how to integrate books into lessons and for which age is the book appropriate. I chose this blog because I have a passion for reading and will be able to use this blog to determine what books are worth buying and using in the classroom, and which ones are not. The last site that I found was Education News. This site is exactly as it sounds. It is education news from around the country. I chose this site because I believe it is important for teachers to be on top of issues going on around use. We can not hole ourselves up in the school building. We must learn about the issues so we can adapt appropriately.

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Using Blabberize in the classroom is a great way to get kids active and excited about readinig and writing. If you were to download a picture of them onto Blabberize and then use their voice, they would be excited to learn how to read a poem or a story! Using this tool especially impacts the Guiding Principles five and eight of English and Language Arts. Guiding principle five says that "oral language and development is foundational to literacy learningand development." This is the perfect tool to get children to use their oral language. Students can use this to practice speaking in front of the class. It is not nearly as scary speaking into the computer than it is speaking to the clas. Guiding Principle eight says that "an effective English language arts curriculum utilizes all forms of media to prepare students to live in an information-rich society." This is something that probably very few families knwo about but can very easily use at home. Also, a part of the SC ELA standards is for students to become fluent in reading. This is a great way for kids to practice reading out loud to become fluent. They can also practice the use of punctuation marks and how to change intonation while reading. All of these things are s part of the learning process and will make learning ELA much more fun!