https://padlet.com/emily_hadfield96/nf5zavq3w1ac Technology in the Classroom en-us 2018-01-21 19:40:03 UTC 2023-01-21 08:55:59 UTC hello@padlet.com emily_hadfield96 https://padlet.com/emily_hadfield96/nf5zavq3w1ac/wish/223141834 I think this article was interesting, it talked about how, in order to grow professionally, teachers need to have access to new technologies and also need to work together as a coherent team. It discussed the failure of state teacher tests to properly assess teachers, and stated that we need to improve teacher training and improving professional development. The part of this article that caught my attention was the part where it talked about collaborative and cross-disciplinary working environments. From personal experience and from having a secondary math teacher as a mother, I think that teachers often do not communicate enough across subjects, grade levels, and disciplines. Everyone has a different teaching style and students all have different learning styles, and we can certainly learn from each other. I think math teachers, for example, and English teachers could truly benefit from discussing teaching strategies with each other and just using basic communication to figure out how to best rest their students, considering they probably have many students in common. Something else that I found extremely interesting was the part where it mentioned that recent studies have shown that teaching to different learning styles is actually ineffective. Much of our teacher education is based around teaching to different learning styles and this is the first thing I've read that has anything negative to say about it. I'll have to do some more research into that]]> 2018-01-21 19:42:27 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_hadfield96/nf5zavq3w1ac/wish/223141834 emily_hadfield96 https://padlet.com/emily_hadfield96/nf5zavq3w1ac/wish/223151177 As a future ESL teacher, I think Padlet could be useful in encouraging collaboration between my students. For example, they could write a story or a piece of writing together. Padlet would allow them to add video, images, recordings, and attachments to enhance their digital story and then would allow them to share it with others inside and outside the classroom. They could practice their writing and speaking skills, and perhaps do interviews with people to practice conversation skills.]]> 2018-01-21 21:07:48 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_hadfield96/nf5zavq3w1ac/wish/223151177 emily_hadfield96 https://padlet.com/emily_hadfield96/nf5zavq3w1ac/wish/223152720 In this video, educator Peter Norvig shares about his experience teaching an online course to over 100,000 students from over 200 different countries.]]> 2018-01-21 21:22:05 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_hadfield96/nf5zavq3w1ac/wish/223152720 emily_hadfield96 https://padlet.com/emily_hadfield96/nf5zavq3w1ac/wish/223154190 I want to teach ESL (or rather EFL, English as a Foreign Language) abroad or potentially ESL here in the US.]]> 2018-01-21 21:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_hadfield96/nf5zavq3w1ac/wish/223154190 emily_hadfield96 https://padlet.com/emily_hadfield96/nf5zavq3w1ac/wish/223154428 https://www.fluentu.com/blog/educator-english/

FluentU is an ESL educator blog where teachers can share their resources, experiences, and advice for all things ESL. I have used it quite a lot in the past, they're a wonderful source for lesson plans and finding ideas for how to incorporate different ideas and teaching strategies into your lessons.]]> 2018-01-21 21:37:12 UTC https://padlet.com/emily_hadfield96/nf5zavq3w1ac/wish/223154428