The website Teaching Community is a teacher-oriented website that provides information about career opportunities, assessment, class management, news, and special education topics (i.e. social skills of students) for users. It has several advertisements that fit in with the website’s central topic. It is logically designed and easy to navigate. It is a useful education tool for teachers, but older students can also use it to complete their assessments and provide lesson plans. Working together with students and the teacher on social skills can be used as a tool in the classroom behavior management system.
Friendship Circle (http://www.friendshipcircle.org/blog/) is a website for parents and teachers who bring up or teach children with special needs. It provides information about the development of social skills and how the use of these skills can be encouraged. It is a structured, easy to navigate, and user-friendly website. While teachers can find useful strategies and techniques, students can learn new social skills and use applications for their needs.
Works Cited
Friendship Circle. 5 Ways to Incorporate Visual Supports in Everyday Routines, 2015, Web.