As you think about building and expanding your professional learning network, how do you see these connections/relationships impacting your practice and students' achievement?
I am excited to become a member of Art Education 2.0 - this site is set-up to connect art educators around the world through use of blogs, forums, chat, photos and videos. This will expand my professional learning network. I hope to gain insights and advice through collaboration with other art educators.
Everything starts with the core structure and framework of building relationships. Without a solid foundation of building relationships and rapport, it becomes difficult for professionals to expand their framework of best practice. We had a discussion today about the importance of collaboration. A true collaborative effort starts with a simple relationship built on trust and mutual respect.
When professionals expand themselves and strive to become better- their students will ultimately gain benefits that would have not been met otherwise.
I'm really excited to be joining a new professional learning community. As an ESL teacher, I spent last year being in 3 PLNs: ESL, 7th grade Geography, 6th grade Science. I taught my own pull-out classes. Now I will be with 7th grade language arts (co-teaching) and ESL.
This is the first time that I will be co-teaching in 7th grade language arts and I am really excited about this. The classroom I will be teaching in has a SMART board. I am interested if language arts teachers use the SMART board in ways they have found successful.
I am also interested in ways that language arts teachers have connected well with ESL students. It's great to be back here. I'm looking forward to a great year.
A new student who knows very little English is now in my newcomer English class. I have been expanding my PLN to include science because the students in this class take the push-in regular science classes. It is a challenge to have 2 different grades and 3 science teachers, and yet try to have them learn something in science. I find that if the PLC has created modified materials, and can guide me as to how I could adapt the lessons to re-teach material, then the student has achieved something and gets help. So many times, I don't know what the instructor has done in class and then I can't help the student with their work. So that's a challenge. I feel like I am working to be the student's advocate much of the time. And that's a challenge also.
I want the English that I teach them in my class to be applicable to their content areas. However, I can't do it all--I have to choose what is best for running my classes also.
I am excited to become a member of Art Education 2.0 - this site is set-up to connect art educators around the world through use of blogs, forums, chat, photos and videos. This will expand my professional learning network. I hope to gain insights and advice through collaboration with other art educators.
ReplyDeleteEverything starts with the core structure and framework of building relationships. Without a solid foundation of building relationships and rapport, it becomes difficult for professionals to expand their framework of best practice. We had a discussion today about the importance of collaboration. A true collaborative effort starts with a simple relationship built on trust and mutual respect.
ReplyDeleteWhen professionals expand themselves and strive to become better- their students will ultimately gain benefits that would have not been met otherwise.
HAPPY COLLABORATING!!
I'm really excited to be joining a new professional learning community. As an ESL teacher, I spent last year being in 3 PLNs: ESL, 7th grade Geography, 6th grade Science. I taught my own pull-out classes. Now I will be with 7th grade language arts (co-teaching) and ESL.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time that I will be co-teaching in 7th grade language arts and I am really excited about this. The classroom I will be teaching in has a SMART board. I am interested if language arts teachers use the SMART board in ways they have found successful.
I am also interested in ways that language arts teachers have connected well with ESL students. It's great to be back here. I'm looking forward to a great year.
A new student who knows very little English is now in my newcomer English class. I have been expanding my PLN to include science because the students in this class take the push-in regular science classes. It is a challenge to have 2 different grades and 3 science teachers, and yet try to have them learn something in science. I find that if the PLC has created modified materials, and can guide me as to how I could adapt the lessons to re-teach material, then the student has achieved something and gets help. So many times, I don't know what the instructor has done in class and then I can't help the student with their work. So that's a challenge. I feel like I am working to be the student's advocate much of the time. And that's a challenge also.
ReplyDeleteI want the English that I teach them in my class to be applicable to their content areas. However, I can't do it all--I have to choose what is best for running my classes also.