Everyone likes working together. It makes life easier, it helps us out when we get confused, it furthers our cognitive skills. All because we are hearing each other's thoughts and ideas. A Professional Learning Network does this for educators. It's like a giant group project that is never ending and right at our fingertips. It allows us to work with other educators, and further our teaching practices beyond what we learn in college. This is important because education practices are forever changing and evolving to fit the needs of our students.
What I hope to experience through being part of a PLN is a sense of community. I hope that I am able to find a group of teachers that are just as passionate about learning and being able to make the classroom the best learning environments for every single one of their students as much as I am. I am hoping that I will be able to further my knowledge from new teacher and even old teachers about practices they have thought about or tried that worked for them and might work for me. I hope to find a safe place that I can tell people that I failed my students, when I do and not be judge. Instead be told its okay, here is something to help you do better next time.
I really am interested in different classroom setups and management styles. This way when I do enter into that classroom environment on my own with my own students I hopefully can easily adapt my prepared teaching style to whatever they best need. I really am interested in finding out a lot about different technology new finds that are a really great ideas for the classroom. I think it is important to stay up to date with the technology and the lingo of the students. This way we know what is inappropriate before we have to find out by watching them play it or watch/repeat it in a classroom where everyone has now seen/heard it, and can easily turn around and show/repeat it to someone outside of the classroom.
One goal for my PLN is to produce helping content for teachers who have students who struggle and excel in math because math is a subject that a lot of teachers struggled with growing up. They then try their best to teach it but might fail and easily lose their faith in their teaching ability over. Another goal for my PLN is to further my knowledge on students with behavioral issues. I really enjoy having these students in my classroom because they push me as a teacher and really require me to think about what I say and do in a classroom. I also want my PLN to be a place as a stated above to celebrate when we succeed and when we fail because those both make us better educators if we can appreciate both.
What I hope to experience through being part of a PLN is a sense of community. I hope that I am able to find a group of teachers that are just as passionate about learning and being able to make the classroom the best learning environments for every single one of their students as much as I am. I am hoping that I will be able to further my knowledge from new teacher and even old teachers about practices they have thought about or tried that worked for them and might work for me. I hope to find a safe place that I can tell people that I failed my students, when I do and not be judge. Instead be told its okay, here is something to help you do better next time.
I really am interested in different classroom setups and management styles. This way when I do enter into that classroom environment on my own with my own students I hopefully can easily adapt my prepared teaching style to whatever they best need. I really am interested in finding out a lot about different technology new finds that are a really great ideas for the classroom. I think it is important to stay up to date with the technology and the lingo of the students. This way we know what is inappropriate before we have to find out by watching them play it or watch/repeat it in a classroom where everyone has now seen/heard it, and can easily turn around and show/repeat it to someone outside of the classroom.
One goal for my PLN is to produce helping content for teachers who have students who struggle and excel in math because math is a subject that a lot of teachers struggled with growing up. They then try their best to teach it but might fail and easily lose their faith in their teaching ability over. Another goal for my PLN is to further my knowledge on students with behavioral issues. I really enjoy having these students in my classroom because they push me as a teacher and really require me to think about what I say and do in a classroom. I also want my PLN to be a place as a stated above to celebrate when we succeed and when we fail because those both make us better educators if we can appreciate both.
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