Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Out of the Cave

For those seasoned bloggers forgive me, for I know not what I am doing.   In the past year I have started a new career. I moved out of the classroom where I was queen of all things that dared enter into my domain, and have moved into the administrative side of education.  Yes, I am on the DARK SIDE now.  In my new role I found out rather quickly that while I was in fairly competent in my teaching skills, I had let the world zoom past my classroom without much notice at all.  In fact when I look back I should have noticed how dark and hollow my classroom had become.  I thought I was doing well having students collaborate with each other in the classroom; I had no idea it was possible to collaborate with students from around the world.  I was living under (or actually hiding beneath) a very LARGE rock. My fear of the unknown kept me, and sadly my students, from discovering what education could be.  

I am throwing the rock to the side and emerging from my cave.  This, my very first blog post, is the catalyst of my new view on education.  I will try new things! I will fail, but I will learn from those and rise up again to try more new things.  It is the point of education is it not, that we are to strive to constantly stretch our students boundaries, make them grow and learn so that they can see the world with a new perspective? From this moment on I will be a role model of  what education should be.  In future posts I will share  my experiences and relate the things I learn to lessons that you my wise apprentices (at least I hope to have some followers, maybe a handful) can learn from and bring into your own classrooms.  

I hope that all those who follow me, will find my journey useful. Until next time...

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