Chapter two taught me how to create a professional learning community. There are several ways to create this community. Some teachers choose to meet with a group of colleagues to help them collaborate ideas for a project to use within their classroom. Other teachers go online and find blogs that pertain to the topic they are looking into and eventually find another teacher, sometimes across the world, that they can collaborate with to work on a new classroom project idea. Other teachers meet just one on one with each other either at school or over coffee once a week to bounce ideas off of each other. I think that all of these are great ways to start creating a professional learning community. The teachers who decide to work closely with someone else will become a better teacher because they run ideas by their co-teacher or partner prior to presenting a topic to their class. This allows teachers to see where they may need to change part of their lesson and learn more about a portion of a topic before explaining and assignment to a class and then having it not work as well as the teacher thought it would.
There was a good example of how teachers worked together in a group to help themselves learn about a piece of technology that they had never used before. The teachers were given tablets to use in their classrooms and they were supposed to integrate technology into their science lessons. The teachers were not certain how to go about this so they decided to team up and work through their ideas. There was a lot of time and research involved but their lessons ended up being extremely stronger and more meaningful in the end because they worked together! I thought this was great and it shows that no matter what new technology is introduced to teachers, they will always be able to figure out a way to incorporate it into their lessons. Teachers will always be able to stay up-to-date with technology and learn how to use it if they can work as a team to help each other get through tough times and frustration.
Working as a member of a team is way better than working on your own as a teacher. Every teacher should be willing to put forth the extra effort to be a part of a team because if they don't then they will end up with the most work in the end. Working alone is much harder than working with another person or a few people. Teachers need to make sure they don't forget this and consider their colleagues a part of their family that they can go to at any time to help them work through any issue that may arise. Teachers should always remember that they can collaborate ideas with teachers across the world thanks to the wonderful technology that has been given to us and take advantage of that!
I also found that chapter two helped me to create a professional learning community. When teachers work as a collaborative team, they are able to build off each other, and tweak any lesson plans, or ideas in order to be ready for their students. Technology is so prevalent today that we have to incorporate it into our classrooms just to keep our students attention.
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I agree that teachers who work together make better teachers. They can communicate with each other about what worked and what didnt work for them in their classrooms and learn from each others successes and mistakes. They may also have other ideas that you have never thought of before or they could help think of solutions to issues that arise. Teachers can find support from other teachers in their school or community, or thanks to technology they can find support from teachers who are across the world through the internet.
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