In 2013, I had the honour of meeting George Couros. He did a full day PD at my school on re imagining the use of technology in our schools. He is a GREAT speaker! I left feeling energized and motivated for the future of education, and I wasn't even a teacher yet! I was happy to see him referenced as he was the first person to ignite that spark in my head for the integration of technology.
I really enjoyed his blog post on blogging. It is so true that you always feel like there is not enough time. I have struggled with this, despite knowing that reflection should naturally be a part of my day. Especially as a new teacher, as teaching can often be trial and error, you need to reflect on what worked and what didn't in order to move forward and modify your practice to do better the next time. I am guilty of not doing this in a written format. I think it's natural for all teachers to reflect mentally on what they taught and how they taught it and then change their next lesson accordingly, but there are things that we forget from week to week ad year to year, which is where blogging could help. I liked that George mentioned how helpful it was to tag his blogs. That is something I haven't learned how to do, but that will help when looking back and searching for previous topics.
My personal challenge in the next school year will be to reflect AT LEAST once a week on my blog. My goal for the next few weeks of the ICCT 2 course is to learn how to tag my blogs, so that I am ready to use that skill for September.
Reflection IS part of every teachers work, and I believe that we ALL do it just naturally to some extent when teaching (it's almost a survival tactic for new teachers especially), but the biggest challenge is to do it explicitly in a form that you can look back on later to see your progress and growth.
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