The San Francisco Chronicle offered this article on a new program developed by Yahoo to be used by teachers.
The free online service is designed to make it easier for educators to create, find and share lesson plans, worksheets and ideas and serves as a sort of social network for teachers.
Yahoo for Teachers has been tested for a few months and will be rolled out later this season. Though there are a number of sites that offer online access to lesson plans and other classroom material, this Yahoo program serves to connect teachers with others so that they can collaborate.
It’s often said the teaching is a surprisingly lonely profession. Despite the roomful of students and dozens of other educators in the building, teachers spend the majority of their day coming up with and implementing their own teaching plans without input from others. Ultimately, feeling alone in front of the blackboard can be the most disheartening part of the teacher’s job.
Anything that allows teachers to feel supported in their work by connecting to excellent material and engaged peers who are quite literally on the same page has got to be beneficial.
“Yahoo!” to Yahoo for investing in teachers.
