Isolation - Be Gone!
Blogs: Ending isolation. (2006). Principal Leadership (Middle School Ed.), 7(1), 46-51.
• Educators in rural schools are sometimes impeded from taking part in professional development. Then, when they finally make it to a conference or workshop, they return home with a heightened awareness of professional isolation. This article reports on the experiences of the teachers who took part in the Education Development Center's (EDC) Supported Literacy Institutes in 2003. Not only did the participants go home inspired to increase literacy in their Middle schools, they were able to * maintain that motivation * by participating in a blogging community.
• By writing blog entries, the workshop participants were able to continue sharing with each other. Teachers could share how they implemented the literacy program by writinge blog entries describing a particular activity or lesson plan. Or sometimes a teacher would write a ‘call for help’ and because other teachers could respond via the comment function, the call was always answered. The blog served as a forum for sharing success as well as struggles. This online community proved blogs a successful way to support new instructional practices while overcoming time and distance.
• Educators in rural schools are sometimes impeded from taking part in professional development. Then, when they finally make it to a conference or workshop, they return home with a heightened awareness of professional isolation. This article reports on the experiences of the teachers who took part in the Education Development Center's (EDC) Supported Literacy Institutes in 2003. Not only did the participants go home inspired to increase literacy in their Middle schools, they were able to * maintain that motivation * by participating in a blogging community.
• By writing blog entries, the workshop participants were able to continue sharing with each other. Teachers could share how they implemented the literacy program by writinge blog entries describing a particular activity or lesson plan. Or sometimes a teacher would write a ‘call for help’ and because other teachers could respond via the comment function, the call was always answered. The blog served as a forum for sharing success as well as struggles. This online community proved blogs a successful way to support new instructional practices while overcoming time and distance.
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