Web Site Serves As Trading Post For Teachers

A new Web site is designed to be a resource where teachers can sell instructional materials they have developed. For $29.95 per year, teachers can list lessons they want to sell, including lectures, quizzes, worksheets, and other materials sorted by topic and grade level. Most items cost a few dollars, and buyers do not need to be members to purchase materials. Jim Smith, a history teacher who was named New Mexico’s teacher of the year a few years ago, said teachers are constantly sharing ideas and lessons they have developed and that the new Web site provides “a much wider basis” for that exchange. Jerry Caveglia, who taught for 32 years in California, said that the site could be particularly useful for new teachers, who have not had years of experience to develop a deep repertoire of lessons for different topics and for students of varying abilities.

Silicon Valley, 27 June 2006