Use blog with students or own professional development
I think blog is a very convenient way to communicate for
both teachers and students. One thing I would like to use blog with my students
is that to post current news or events to invite students’ thoughts, ideas and
comments. This is a great way to get to know your students well. By doing this,
teachers might know what kind of person the students are and find ways to
communicate with students, moreover, find out the best way to instruct specific
students. Also, teachers can make comments on students’ thoughts, which makes
it like a face-to-face communicate for both teachers and students.
Blog is beneficial
for teacher’s professional development in long term. Blogs are dynamic and
focus on content. Teachers are not going to assess their students simply by
what they learn in class, but what they get from the class. Teacher might have
a new idea of how to assess their students by using blogs. For example, if one
of the student is slow in learning in class time, however, he/she work hard
after class and does great job by making comments on the current events on the
blogs. This might become one of the factors that teachers need to take into
consideration when they assess their students.
Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making
Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct
research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using
appropriate digital tools and resources. Students:
1.
Identify and define authentic problems and
significant questions for investigation
2.
Plan and manage activities to develop a solution
or complete a project.
3.
Collect and analyze data to identify solutions
and/or make informed decisions.
4.
Use multiple processes and diverse perspectives
to explore alternative solutions.
Technology Operation and Concept
Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology
concepts, systems, and operations.
1.
Understand and use technology systems.
2.
Select and use applications effectively and
productively.
3.
Troubleshoot systems and applications.
The ways you have described for using blogs are all very good ones. However, the uses you have mentioned are actually all for student-teacher interaction.
ReplyDeleteThat meets the requirements for this mod but blogging for professional development would refer to writing your own reflective blog posts and learning from the blogs of other language teachers.
Teachers might benefit from blogs because they can learn from other teachers experience. If we use blog as a teaching diary, it can be a reminder for us to reflect or record what we do in class and how we can improve it. Or we use improve our teaching methodology by reading other teacher's blog, find out what we can borrow from them, and try it in our classroom. Teachers would think a lot before teaching if we have a blog for professional development.
DeleteHaving reread your blog post I now see things from a different perspective. So actually you did talk about professional development in describing how you would be come a better teacher when you said:
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So your first post was actually fine.
Solving questions one-on-one to students is time consuming, and it's impractical. However, it is a good way to focus on individual development and progress, and to locate problems of certain students. It's definitely worth doing!
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