4 years on
Friday, 14 January 2011
Four years ago today, the first post on this blog was published.
MathsClass brings so many good things to my teaching:
- the ability to reflect and share
- meeting so many great teachers across subjects and across the world (Twitter aids that as well)
- pushing myself to continually improve
If you’ve been a teacher for a while, I would encourage you to start blogging (or an easier first step, join Twitter, NSW DET teacher could join Yammer – in particular Axiom) – your wisdom and knowledge is valuable and it’s great to share and discuss with others.
If you’re a new teacher, interacting online provides so many opportunities to reflect and learn. Whilst writing a post for a blog sounds like extra work, I find that reflecting via this blog gives me a means of critically examining how an activity went and improving it for next time.
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Happy birthday! Thanks for this amazing resource. While you are reflecting on reflecting – could you add a few comments about where you see the line between public and private reflection? So for example : if you have lessons that don’t work – are you comfortable blogging about them here?
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I have blogged about lessons that don’t work. e.g. http://mathsclass.net/comments/teaching-equations-or-not
I would keep any comments about the classroom generic and focus on the activity and student responses never on student’s themselves.
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