Teacher Website No. 3 - Teaching Heart

Teaching Heart is a website created by teacher Colleen Gallagher, beginning in 1998. According to the creator, the site began as a way to archive her ideas and designs for the classroom and blossomed into a site dedicated to helping fellow teachers obtain great ideas and information for their classrooms. This site is a wonderful resource for kindergarten teachers because it provides ideas, information, strategies, and tools for every component a teacher would need to have a successful classroom. Some of the resources include bulletin board ideas, behavior management, themes/units, a new teacher page with awesome information, as well as products available for purchase. I love the philosophy stated on her "About Me" page: "Education is more than just teaching; it is loving, caring, showing, communicating, and growing" (Gallagher, 2007, p. 1). The website address is http://www.teachingheart.net/.