A very well done reflection post that captures all of the key new learning for you over the last few modules. Your visual, humorous writing style is very effective. I wonder if you could attempt to try and get this great looking blog post on your blog, instead of in a PDF that is linked up? It might be worth some of your learning, to master the blog part of blogging. It does not hold back your message, just creates a second layer of clicking and opening and does not take full advantage of the blogger platform. Just a suggestion, as your current model is working fine, but would like to see you try more with using your blog a bit more fully before the course is over. Your references, citations, links, examples and discussions were all well done.
Hi Sandy, I really liked the point you made that teachers (especially older ones) may not be used to working with a teacher-librarian. Even though I advertise my availability to collaborate, I don't think it occurs to some teachers to include a teacher-librarian in their planning. In contrast, the student teachers that have come to my school this year are all over the collaboration thing so I think there is a current emphasis on this in teacher training.
I enjoyed the more sustained aspect of your approach to this assignment. I was unsure of how I would approach this task with a single teacher so I opted for the two teacher contrast scenario. I'm glad you stuck with the one teacher and made some solid game plans to both help the teacher collaborate and develop, even if it was a bit of a challenge. I suppose if the teacher turned out to be far more resistant to the connection aspects of your plan that any single one of your ideas would improve the style of his teaching and perhaps reinvigorate his engagement with inquiry or lesson development. I also enjoyed your knowledge of the teachers personal situation, as I feel this is often overlooked when others have expectations about what level a teacher should be performing at - we all eventually have some level of issue with our health, but it doesn't mean we can't or aren't good teachers. I actually wish someone would publish a book of stories on how teachers can (or have) deal/dealt with issues in that arise from physical or mental concerns.
A very well done reflection post that captures all of the key new learning for you over the last few modules. Your visual, humorous writing style is very effective. I wonder if you could attempt to try and get this great looking blog post on your blog, instead of in a PDF that is linked up? It might be worth some of your learning, to master the blog part of blogging. It does not hold back your message, just creates a second layer of clicking and opening and does not take full advantage of the blogger platform. Just a suggestion, as your current model is working fine, but would like to see you try more with using your blog a bit more fully before the course is over. Your references, citations, links, examples and discussions were all well done.
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ReplyDeleteI really liked the point you made that teachers (especially older ones) may not be used to working with a teacher-librarian. Even though I advertise my availability to collaborate, I don't think it occurs to some teachers to include a teacher-librarian in their planning. In contrast, the student teachers that have come to my school this year are all over the collaboration thing so I think there is a current emphasis on this in teacher training.
I enjoyed the more sustained aspect of your approach to this assignment. I was unsure of how I would approach this task with a single teacher so I opted for the two teacher contrast scenario. I'm glad you stuck with the one teacher and made some solid game plans to both help the teacher collaborate and develop, even if it was a bit of a challenge. I suppose if the teacher turned out to be far more resistant to the connection aspects of your plan that any single one of your ideas would improve the style of his teaching and perhaps reinvigorate his engagement with inquiry or lesson development. I also enjoyed your knowledge of the teachers personal situation, as I feel this is often overlooked when others have expectations about what level a teacher should be performing at - we all eventually have some level of issue with our health, but it doesn't mean we can't or aren't good teachers. I actually wish someone would publish a book of stories on how teachers can (or have) deal/dealt with issues in that arise from physical or mental concerns.
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