Why Have this Site?
The main reason I started www.jonathanfeicht.com was to help my students learn in an engaging way. Many standards that I was required to teacher were lacking in age appropriate resources. As I started compiling resources, I began getting emails from other teachers thanking me for my site or asking how I did certain things on my site. This site was created for a presentation about how to create an efficient and effective teacher website at the Georgia Educational Technology Conference. The goal is to help teachers create meaningful content to assist students in their content area and age level. Teachers work very hard and are in many ways under compensated and yet the demands and level of "accountability" (read as hoops to jump through) continues to go up. My hope is that the spirit of competition which is created by the current education environment, will not keep educators from collaborating and sharing resources, which will help kids. Collaboration may be counterproductive in the current system, with Student Growth Percentiles and such, but it will help kids everywhere, which is why I entered the field of education.
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