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]]> http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2009/09/04/sharing-the-chocolate-of-teaching-and-learning/#comment-6853 Holly Eglin Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:46:29 +0000 http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2009/09/04/sharing-the-chocolate-of-teaching-and-learning/#comment-6853 You are right, Candace...it is not just "good" teachers or even "seasoned" ones that bring great ideas to the table. I am in a master's program for Integrating Technology in the Classroom and I have been able to glean so much from "young" teachers in the area of technology alone! I am learning a lot this year, even though I am in my ninth year of teaching! :) Thanks for the virtual chocolate...I think I'll be having a lot of it this year! You are right, Candace…it is not just “good” teachers or even “seasoned” ones that bring great ideas to the table. I am in a master’s program for Integrating Technology in the Classroom and I have been able to glean so much from “young” teachers in the area of technology alone! I am learning a lot this year, even though I am in my ninth year of teaching! Thanks for the virtual chocolate…I think I’ll be having a lot of it this year!

]]> http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2009/09/04/sharing-the-chocolate-of-teaching-and-learning/#comment-6801 Candace Hackett Shively Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:04:17 +0000 http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2009/09/04/sharing-the-chocolate-of-teaching-and-learning/#comment-6801 Holly- Thanks for validating and adding your own illustrations to my post. You are so right that motivated teachers play BOTH roles. I wonder how the next "study" could delineate that two-way process in a more meaningful way instead of researching the "good teachers" and those who benefit from their expertise as a one-way street. Our conversation here is exactly what teachers do for each other. Consider this a virtual hunk of chocolate for your comment! Holly-
Thanks for validating and adding your own illustrations to my post. You are so right that motivated teachers play BOTH roles. I wonder how the next “study” could delineate that two-way process in a more meaningful way instead of researching the “good teachers” and those who benefit from their expertise as a one-way street. Our conversation here is exactly what teachers do for each other. Consider this a virtual hunk of chocolate for your comment!

]]> http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2009/09/04/sharing-the-chocolate-of-teaching-and-learning/#comment-6794 Holly Eglin Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:47:27 +0000 http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2009/09/04/sharing-the-chocolate-of-teaching-and-learning/#comment-6794 I was one of the teachers nodding as described here! First, I laughed at the amount of Diet Coke and chocolate consummed by my peers and me as we discuss and collaborate and, yes, sometimes cry, together! For some I think you are right in that "misery loves company" and that often we do not want to "look bad," but more importantly, we do all have an idea of what learning should look like and we do see it everyday in different ways and at different moments. While we all might be teachers and lifelong-learners, we all learn differently and bring such valuable insight into our Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)! I have experienced moments of sheer frustration at times that my students just can't get a concept, when one of my peers suggests another way of teaching it! Wow! What a concept that I might be the "problem" not my students! Now, I have come to lean on my peers for ways to teach things BEFORE I start teaching it, gleaning from each new and different ways of presenting it, so that I can offer my students a variety of meaningful learning experiences right away. That has made learning in my classroom so much more powerful! I think I am going to take chocolate AND a Diet Coke to my next PLC meeting...I am both the motivated teacher AND I don't think I will ever stop looking for more inspiration! I was one of the teachers nodding as described here! First, I laughed at the amount of Diet Coke and chocolate consummed by my peers and me as we discuss and collaborate and, yes, sometimes cry, together! For some I think you are right in that “misery loves company” and that often we do not want to “look bad,” but more importantly, we do all have an idea of what learning should look like and we do see it everyday in different ways and at different moments. While we all might be teachers and lifelong-learners, we all learn differently and bring such valuable insight into our Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)! I have experienced moments of sheer frustration at times that my students just can’t get a concept, when one of my peers suggests another way of teaching it! Wow! What a concept that I might be the “problem” not my students! Now, I have come to lean on my peers for ways to teach things BEFORE I start teaching it, gleaning from each new and different ways of presenting it, so that I can offer my students a variety of meaningful learning experiences right away. That has made learning in my classroom so much more powerful! I think I am going to take chocolate AND a Diet Coke to my next PLC meeting…I am both the motivated teacher AND I don’t think I will ever stop looking for more inspiration!

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