Teach Effectively!

If you don’t know about it already, you probably should take a few minutes to look through the entries on a blog that is being hosted by the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). It’s been live since last fall and, over its first five months there have been about a dozen posts. The authors, who include folks with good CEC credentials, are posting about their personal experiences and recommendations. As developed in the first post and on the “about” page, the target audience is beginning teachers:

Welcome to CEC’s blog, Reality 101 for New Teachers. Here you will find blogs to help teachers who are new to the classroom (1-3 years), but experienced teachers will likely find tips and insights they will find useful, too! Our bloggers are some of CEC’s most distinguished educators: CEC’s Clarissa Hug Teachers of the Year, CEC Board of Director Members, Disney American Teacher Award winners, and acclaimed experts in special education specialty areas. Read the blogs, send in your comments and questions, and enjoy!

As is routine here at Teach Effectively, we’ll welcome CEC to the blogosphere (”Jump on in, folks! Be sure you’re vaccinations are up to date, though, ’cause there’s no telling what organisms are in the water here”) and beseech the writers to provide evidence-based recommendations. (No sense in polluting the water any more than it already has been polluted.)

Link to the CEC blog.