Showing posts with label reflection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reflection. Show all posts

6/05/2017

Which Step are You On?

Posted by Unknown on 6/05/2017
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This time of year finds most educators reflecting on their year and taking strides on improving before the new year rolls around. Your highly qualified teachers are those who never stop learning or improving themselves. As most of us claim, we are "Life-Long Learners" and strive to better ourselves. Today, I came across a visual that I want to share. It speaks boldly and can be applied to many different circumstances in life. Which step are you on? Where do you "get stuck" most of the time?


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7/15/2015

Importance of Blogging

Posted by Unknown on 7/15/2015
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If I could have one wish for the upcoming school year, it would be to get all teachers on board with Blogging. There are tons of testimonies out there in various forms that share the importance of blogging. Here is a place to get started called Blog Basics and Blogging Tips for Teachers.  Personally, if you do not enjoy blogging or reflecting on your work, please make it a goal this year to allow and encourage students to blog. Teachers have many opportunities to use blogging in their curriculum with students. I can promise you, if you agree to try it for a month, you will have students hooked and who knows, you may see how it benefits your lessons. I love this visual on reasons to blog by Sylvia Duckworth. It came across on my Twitter feed.


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3/27/2014

Time of Year to Evaluate

Posted by Unknown on 3/27/2014
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In education, this time of year is for reflecting. Thinking about your year as a teacher, friend, leader, etc. It is valuable so that you can grow and learn from failures, glean from your successes, file those true and tried activities that worked and just re-evaluate yourself as a person. I ran across this wonderful tweet that to me shares what most folks want in leaders. See what you think:



Let me go ahead and put in a plug for Twitter! It is not a place that I go to see what my friends are eating or what movie they are watching. I visit to collaborate with educators about important issues and gain numerous resources and support. That is possible when you have built and carefully selected your PLN on Twitter. It is something that many continue to refine and grow. I hope that you will consider giving Twitter another try! There are many resources available for beginners! Here is my favorite Twitter for Beginners by Amber Coggins which you can download at this site. I would be happy to step you through the process!

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3/13/2014

Rose, Thorn, Bud

Posted by Unknown on 3/13/2014
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I have read several different articles on this neat activity for parents to use with children or for teachers to use in their classroom as a reflection. Parents can do this around the dinner table or as a bedtime activity. It shouldn't take more than 5 minutes for each child. I wish I would have done this with my children while they were growing up. Teachers can use this activity for students to reflect after a long day or week. For the rose, they share their best part of the day. For the thorn, they share the worst part of the day. And then for the bud, they decide on what they look forward to the next day. Isn't this a great idea to use? I love it and will share this with my grown children to use with my grandchildren. I hope that they like it and to tie it to the rose is a perfect visual.

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6/30/2013

The Stupidest Creative Act by Dean Shareski

Posted by Unknown on 6/30/2013
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+Dean Shareski has gratefully shared his ignite talk from ISTE 2013. It's called the Stupidest Creative Act. He also gives you his script just in case you missed something in his talk. All his 'siily' talk to get to his main point that we need teachers that will allow students to create those goofy, nonsense things and turn them into meaningful, beautiful items. Students need to create, experiment, explore and sometimes being silly especially in the beginning of their idea. Love how he brought in the importance of REFLECTION! What more can I do with this? Can something better or more valuable be created? That, my friends is the important part that must not be left out.

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