Thursday, October 14, 2010

#elemchat

I was planning on participating in the elemchat today, but some other things came up. I still went back and searched the hash tag "elemchat." The people who participated in the talked a lot about refection on their own teaching.

A user by the name of "tcash" made a very good point by saying "Make reflection party of what you do, not something you have to do on top of it all." This quote makes perfect sense and should be taken into consideration by all teachers. You should want to look back and reflect on what went right and what you could fix and make better for next time. She also makes the point of maybe even video taping and going back to reflect that way. The teachers should reflect about their students, how they are doing, what they need, what they said and how the lesson went. Reflection is key to improving and making sure the students are getting what they need out of the lesson plans. 

I plan on participating in the #elemchat next week and will edit and fix this post.