Corin Justa
February 1, 2013
Reading Reflection Two:
The
goal of every teacher should be to provide their students with the opportunity
to learn, grow and succeed at whatever they put their minds to. It is our
responsibility as teachers to explore every possible way to maintain a positive
and rewarding learning experience in our classrooms. With that being said, it
is important for us to know that our lessons are appropriate and that our
teaching styles will be successful when educating our students. Learning
Communities provides benefits to help support this important goal in our
responsible careers as teachers. These communities help provide us with
feedback on our ways of teaching, demonstrating the positive aspects and areas
we can work on. Collaborating with other groups of teachers also allows for us
to learn new approaches to teaching, which can also be extremely beneficial.
This form of community among our fellow colleagues provides both teachers and
students new rewarding ways to incorporate a fun and engaging learning
experience within the classroom.
Learning
Communities provide many benefits to teachers and students. Organizing time for
teachers to discuss their lesson plans is a great opportunity to learn what may
work and what they may consider changing to help improve their teaching. With
new valuable feedback and other examples of teaching, educators can create an
even better learning experience for their students, making learning communities
rewarding for not only the teachers but the students as well. When teachers
work together in communities and take the necessary steps to make changes in
the education of our young learners, they begin to create and share specific
visions for teaching. Having a clear sense, with conditions and collaborative
teams, teachers work together to achieve their missions for new ways of
teaching. They focus on the students learning by creating goal and result
oriented projects, committing themselves to continuous improvement and making themselves
lifelong learners.
The
concepts within this chapter relates to our class project by showing us the
importance of working as a team to collaborate the best strategies for a
successful learning experience. It provides examples of how teachers commit to working
together to create visions with goals for how to teach a successful topic in a
rewarding way. It is important for us to see ourselves as life-long learners
throughout this project so that we can become more educated in the topics we
are covering, so that we fulfill this aspect of learning to the fullest for our
own students. Learning communities will help provide a rewarding teaching and
learning experience for the students and for us teachers as well.
Great reflection! I think that his chapter really puts Learning Communities into perspective. As future teachers we should know how to work collaboratively with our colleagues. We should also know that if we can work cooperatively with other teachers this will have a much greater impact on our students and their learning experience!
ReplyDeleteGreat job at explaining what learning communities are and why it is so important. I find this chapter very important and helpful teaching us how to keep a good educational environment. It is important as a teacher to keep your work environment a friendly helpful place and an on-going learning environment for both teachers and students. I like how you talk about seeing ourselves as life-longed learners because whether your a teacher or student, you wont ever stop learning. Teachers are able to learn from there own mistakes as well as other teachers mistakes which in the long run will help improve teaching styles.
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