I think this website is very easy to navigate. You can easily find your course of study and and the objectives for that course and it even gives you an option to print them out. The web sources are great, and again, it's very easy to find your specific area of teaching. I want to teach high school science, whether it's biology or zoology or genetics, and it links you to all sorts of websites you could view to help you teach the class. It's a lot of sites all on one page that pertain to a lot of things instead of just Googling something yourself and having millions of websites to look through. There are even lessons plans and a professional learning network. This seems to be a great tool for any teacher in Alabama.
ACCESS
I have witness the use of ACCESS at LeFlore Magnet High School. At first it seemed like a good idea, but the whole reason they have ACCESS is because they don't have enough teachers. Since they have an overflow of students and not enough teachers some kids at this high school have a lab black where they are taught by an online teacher. It's just like taking an online class at a college. The lectures are online, the power points are online, the quizzes are online and you email the teacher any questions or concerns.
Depending on what subject it is, I think I would be okee with an ACCESS lab class. For the subject I witnessed ACCESS, I thought it was horrible. It was for physical science and they got rid of one of the teachers, yet they can pay for the online teacher. In physical science there is chemistry and physics and those concepts are not like learning a story for history or English, or Spanish, even biology paints a story. I felt like those kids were being robbed. Mostly because this class if for freshmen and most freshmen aren't disciplined enough for a total online class. And from what I gathered, the proctor of the class doesn't have to be knowledgeable about the subject. I think ACCESS in conjecture with a regular classroom teacher would be very fun for the students though, like an online Lab for whatever class you take.
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