In this time of growing Internet use in the classroom, the training given the classroom teacher becomes very important. We feel that there are many issues which need to be addressed regarding the professional development of teachers. There are many websites available which assist educators in developing lesson plans for specific subject areas, as well as interdisciplinary lesson plans, which include several different subjects in the same lesson.
Many websites are available which assist educators in classroom instruction.
Ethical Use of the Internet Teachers should be aware of the various issues such as plagiarizing both the printed text and pictures from sources which have them copyrighted. Also, they should be aware that there are numerous sites which are unacceptable for viewing by the students. Each school district must make its own decision regarding software which will restrict this material, and how much to restrict it.