“The High-Energy Teacher” – because This kind of teacher is like Energizer bunnies, they keep going and going and going.

“The Heartfelt Teacher” – This is the teacher who would do anything for their students.

“The Hard-Ass Teacher” – because this teacher is hard on their students, but for good reasons, and any teacher, sometimes, are a lite of this type of teacher. 

“The Health-Crazy Teacher” – When you see students’ drawings hung up all over their walls, their desktops and drawers are full of random gifts every student ever gave them, and you might catch them tearing up over an “aha” moment or a simple sentimental gesture.

“The Over-Organized Teacher” – because this type of teacher is in love with lamination, color-coordination, labeling, bins, filing cabinets, bulletin boards, and their precious markers. Their drawers, desktop, and cabinets are meticulous. These over-organized teachers are usually super efficient since they know where everything is. As a result, they’re generally more composed, because they don’t lose their minds trying to find where they put things, all the time.

“The Big Brother/Sister Teacher” – because they’re always available for some much-needed support, and always there to let you know it’s gonna be OK.

1.       The PLN is a mindset, not the outcome of a workshop or the PD offered annually by many school districts. It is not a one-shot fix.

2.       Successful users of PLNs overwhelm the uninitiated with techno-babble.

3.       It requires, at least at first, digital literacy beyond a Google search.
With PLNs childrens can share cultural information with other children around the world and teachers can exchange methods and strategies. Online discussions and links enable access to materials that would not be revealed otherwise. Resources are accessible and exchanged through networked teachers, not filtered through politicians and corporate monopolies. Facebook, instagram, Twitter, are social media application, are the backbone for most PLNs. With an post allows quick and easy transmissions of information to links yielding websites, videos, podcasts, blog posts, articles, interviews and excerpts -- dream resources for classroom professionals. By simply asking, teachers receive content and strategies from sources around the globe.
To conclude this brief reflection, we must remember that lifelong learning requires effort. We expect this commitment from students. We should accept no less from ourselves.

2º Be informed – The blogs of some incredible teachers have taught the author far more about her profession, and given her more practical ideas, than her MA in education did. There is some incredibly useful research being carried out in education, but he didn’t encounter any of it until joining Twitter and following groups such as The Learning Scientists (@AceThatTest).

3º Get a fresh perspective - It’s fair to say that teachers are cruelly generalised. We are often portrayed as a miserable bunch, constantly striking and always angry about the latest injustice imposed on our education system. But, teachers of all ages and nationalities come together on Twitter and they are excited about the profession, their subjects and the students they teach. I’ve found that if you choose to associate yourself with these types of people, you might well become one. For this reason I, who had never had a twitter account, made one.

4º Embrace new ideas - Looking at teachers’ Twitter accounts will show you that we’re a diverse group and that many reject some of the prescriptive ideas instilled by PGCE training about how to be an outstanding teacher. Some of us have come to feel that much of the advice was just preventing us from being bad teachers, rather than encouraging us to be the unique teachers we wanted to be.
There are so many incredible teachers, each with their own approach that they are happy to share. These sharing can be done on both Twitter and other social networks.

If you’re not teacher on Twitter, I hope I’ve convinced you to join.