Importance of ALEX (Alabama Learning Exchange) and ACCESS (Alabama Connecting Classroom, Educators and Students Statewide.)

One important website that all teachers as well as future teachers should use is the website for ALEX. ALEX, which stands for Alabama Learning Exchange, is a site that lets teachers of all courses of study come and pick up lesson plans, chat with other teachers, and have access to other sites regarding their lesson plans. It even has its own personal workspace for teachers who may want to keep all their important documents and teaching aids on the site at their disposal.

Another important site for Alabama teachers and students is the ACCESS website. ACCESS (Alabama Connecting Classroom, Educators Students Statewide) is based of the same principles as ALEX, but has tools for high school students as well. The emphasis for this site is the purpose of distance learning for students. Distance learning is used for the purpose of giving students knowledge for High school and college via online. Both of these programs are extremely helpful for the advancement of Alabama students and teachers.

Although the ACCESS website stresses the importance of actual teachers, they also show the benefits of online learning for students as well as teachers; as stated above this is known as distance learning. The ALEX website is also a great learning tool for teachers and can provide up to date lesson plans for all courses of study (even some for special needs.) It is easily seen that with these two programs helping the youth in Alabama, that their achievements will be great.

I am defiantly looking forward to using ALEX as well as ACCESS for my own teaching career. I love teaching others, but like all successful teachers I like to look to others for their ideas and thoughts. By doing this I can better myself as a teacher and better the students. Also, if I have anything to share to people I can. The purpose of being a teacher is giving back to the community (or in this case Alabama.) And I see no better way to do this than by recieving aid from these two extremely helpful websites. I defiantly recommend these websites to all aspiring teachers and even high school students looking to advance their knowledge.