OK, here goes. For some time now I have used WordPress for blogging, but I have found it to be clunky and laborious. So I checked out Blogger and am much more satisfied with the overall look of it. Thus I'll be spending more of my blogging time here.
Anyway, having spent a little time recently out of the country in India at a conference I'm pretty excited to be back on in Qatar and ready to get to work with some of the things I picked up. Really found the experience to be invaluable, with some great people leading our workshop. The whole idea of a flat classroom is quite appealing to me. It's high time that we are involving our students in the overall teaching strategies discussion. They are major stakeholders and have quite a lot to offer when their minds are pointed in the right direction, and they are learning in a much different fashion than my generation did. I was inspired by the forward and "why not" attitude that the students in attendance at the conference exhibited. I am now working to adjust my thinking similarly and am actively looking for better ways to enhance the learning experiences I am providing.
It's not so much that I see myself needing to be an entertainer, and in fact that's not what education is all about. There can be plenty of work involved in it. Still just because you are busy working doesn't mean you aren't enjoying yourself. Education can be both hard and fun, and I would challenge my fellow teachers to aspire to the same goal of providing challenging and rewarding educational experiences that will build in our kids the skills they will need for the 21st century.
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