Welcome back everyone!
This week I want to discuss with you all a new term that I have learned this week in teacher's college. The term I learned is what it means to curate resources. At first, I was a little bit confused on the idea because I thought it just meant research, however I'm glad I was taught otherwise! Curating resources is so valuable for us future teachers! So let me explain what it means to curate resources....
Curate essentially means to bring together resources and share them as a collection. Combining resources into folders or files in a creative and organized way is referred to as curating resources. This is useful as an educator because you can collect an abundance of useful resources throughout your career to implement within the classroom. As we curate, we can ensure that we are always looking to improve our pedagogical approaches to the curriculum. Curating resources can provide teachers with a way to keep their lessons fun and engaging while also meeting the students in their zones of proximal development. So what are you waiting for? Let's get curating!
Now that I have explained to you all what it means to curate as well as the value in it, I would love to share two websites that I recently came across to help you start your new curation journey! I learned of this website just last week and I love it already. The website Cube for Teachers allows people to create an account and start curating instantaneously! As a future high school math teacher, I have started curating different resources that will enhance the quality of my lessons. Some of the resources I have curated include engaging worksheets, activities, tutorials, printables, and games that will add many more collaborative and interactive elements in my classroom. All it took was a simple search of "high school math resources" and I was amazed to see all the different resources that came up. With a simple click, I was able to add all the resources that I liked into my mathematics folder.
There is also another website called EDWIN that allows users to curate resources. This website is a great curation tool because it even has a presentation embedded within the site that walks you through how to use it. EDWIN will enable teachers to search, collect, and share these resources in lessons or activities in the classroom. Just like Cube for Teachers, EDWIN promote the development of pedagogical approaches to constantly push teachers to enhance their lessons and unit plans.
There is so much value that comes with curating resources that it is important we take the opportunity to start developing these folders and organizing them according to our wants. Starting early will push us to become better prepared for teaching in the classroom setting once we are officially teachers!
Now, despite today being a slightly shorter blog post, it was definitely an important one! As future educators, we need to be constantly building our repertoire of resources through curation. Like I mentioned in my last blog post, even teachers need help and it is important that we take all the help we can get! Reflecting upon my university experiences through my undergraduate degree and my first year of teachers college so far, I can see the value in curating resources. As a future high school mathematics teacher, I want to be constantly implementing engaging elements to my lessons to keep students interested. I think that it is so important to keep up to date on different and innovative and creative pedagogical approaches when teaching the math curriculum. Curating resources is not an intimidating process once you become more familiar with the steps to do so. Take a look at the two curation websites I linked above to start curating resources for yourself. I hope this experience is as exciting for you as it was for me. Happy curating!
That's all from me for today. Until next time....
Signing off,
Ms. Blackwell
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