Good question…who am I connecting with.\u00a0 I have just had a light bulb moment in the last twenty four hours.\u00a0 I was having a discussion with someone about my life circumstances and I have realized that I have been spending a huge amount of my time and energy devoted to this diploma program.\u00a0 All the while, trying my hardest not to lose family time.\u00a0 So what have I sacrificed?\u00a0 Time spent planning and creating really innovative things for my teaching.\u00a0 If I am truly self reflective, there have been many lessons and units that have not been as fantastic as they could have been had I had the time and energy to make them better.\u00a0 In reality, I am connecting with others in this program more than I am connecting with the teachers in my own school.\u00a0 Not in the way of social connections, but with intellectual connection and I need to do something about this.<\/p>\n
As I consider this project, one of my desires was to host a forum in which I could stay connected with the incredible and innovative people in my classes.\u00a0 However, when I take a step back, I realize that the people I really need to connect with again is my staff.\u00a0 I will always be able to access innovative information about school libraries and teaching so I need to focus on putting all this intellect I have been nurturing in the last two and a half years into practice.\u00a0 I will be adding information about Inquiry Based Learning and teaching onto my library site with the goal of reaching the teachers at my school.<\/p>\n
We had a good discussion in class about what draws people into a website or a blog and while I understand the need to have a hook to draw people in, I think that my hook will be to encourage these types of lessons and units as I collaborate with all the teachers in my school this year.\u00a0 As I do this, I will show teachers what I have put on the website and how to use these resources.\u00a0 If we do it together, I am sure they will be more inclined to look at the information.\u00a0 I am fairly confident that if I just put some information out in cyberspace, the only people who would seek it out would be people already interested in this type of learning and then I would really be preaching to the choir.\u00a0 I want to broaden the horizons of the teachers around me to create better practice for the students in my care.\u00a0 Perhaps then, when I feel I have found success in this topic I will be better equipped to broaden my ambition to district, province and world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Good question…who am I connecting with.\u00a0 I have just had a light bulb moment in the last twenty four hours.\u00a0 I was having a discussion with someone about my life circumstances and I have realized that I have been spending … Continue reading