Just a quick note on teacher blogs: best thing I've ever done. I have two. The first blog communicates assignments due, afterthoughts, a re-cap of the day etc. If a student is absent and asked what he/she missed, I can say, "Check the class blog." This blog also serves as my journal and helps me to self-reflect and see what is needed.
It isn't all business either; students see that I write and reflect too-I do what I ask them to do.
The second blog is for posting student writing. Each student is required to make 5 comments on other writers' work. When I visit the writing blog and see the comments that students are making about each others' writing, I see that something positive is happening. Students have an audience.
Fun to see your posts, Pat! It looks as if you are loving teaching. We should get together to chat sometime. :) Are you interested in branching out into some service to the teaching community? I am looking for a few hardy and brilliant souls who want to get involved with UCTE/LA.
ReplyDeleteI just noticed your comment. Let me know what it entails. Sounds interesting-though I don't know if I fit the requirement of hardy or brilliant.
ReplyDeleteI do love LA. I just took a group of students there to visit the Museum of Tolerance, the Holocaust museum and the Getty-so I'd be a resource for the fun part!