As I work with students and families, I am reminded of how important it is for teachers to have a well constructed syllabus available on-line.  Ideally a teacher should provide:  all due dates, testing dates, outstanding work examples, additional assignments with answers/solutions, and resources to better understand concepts throughout the course.  A parent should be able to view the syllabus at any time and feel pretty certain of what their kiddo is learning during any given week.

Remember the excitement of reading your college syllabus?  Junior and high school students and their families ought to have that same feeling – knowledge of exactly what a person is getting into when enrolling in a teacher’s class.  I shudder to think of the needless anxiety created in students because of lack of course clarity.

I was inspired by a couple of websites that teachers have made to improve education:

• http://precalculus.nonstopmathfun.com/2014/04/

• http://mrenglishmathclass.wordpress.com/algebra-2/