Why is "4teacher.de" good for school?

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4teachers.de is a German homepage designed and provided by teachers. It aims to help other teachers planning lessons and providing material and ideas for ones own classes. Signing in is for free. The homepage offers teaching ideas and material for almost all subjects. Especially the English section has a lot of entries. One can distinguish between teaching units for different kinds of school and topics, so that one can easily find a suitable idea for oneselve. One can download the different teaching ideas and leave comments to each of them.

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This toolbar appears for signed in members on top of every page to the subject English. It simplifies to find teaching ideas and material for different contents, for example computer and media in the EFL classroom or when working with special books. One can also find helpful links to other homepages dealing with the EFL classroom.

4teachers.de is a very good homepage that offers a lot of interesting things for teachers. Here, teachers provide their material and ideas for their colleages. Everybody can add new things and the homepage reminds its members from time to time to include own things. When most of them do so it is a mutual help and everybody benefits from the program. This homepage is especially useful for teachers when they need new ideas for a topic, want to try out something new or when they just want to know what methods other teachers use in their lessons.
I used this page several times for my own lessons during my internship at school and found it very useful. I did not just look up the teaching ideas from other teachers and copied them the way they are. I always tried to change it a little bit and addapt it, so that it fits to the content and the situation in my class. I did not yet load up own ideas, but I think that I will do so when I will be more skilled in teaching classes in a couple of years. Until then, this homepage will probably help me to come up with teaching ideas and provide me with material.