Blogging as a Teacher in the Classroom

    Teachers can benefit greatly from blogging as it provides a versatile platform for improving their communication, professional development, and effectiveness in the classroom. Teachers can reach a global audience by blogging about their experiences, ideas, and creative teaching techniques. This keeps educators up to date on the most recent developments in their field as well as helps to create a lively learning community. Furthermore, blogging gives educators a platform for reflective practice, allowing them to develop and clarify their pedagogical approaches. Regularly writing blog posts helps teachers reflect critically on their pedagogical choices and develops their communication skills. Additionally, blogs facilitate collaboration by allowing educators to interact with one another, exchange resources, and have deep conversations. In general, blogging enables educators to become lifelong learners and influential contributors to the education landscape. 

        The article from George Couros has great information on why people should blog, it helps understand why blogging can be important because it not only helps the teachers themselves but it can also help other future teachers. George states different reasons why people don't blog. it can be all different types of reasons, you are too busy, your life is personal, and no one cares about what you have to say. Blogging is something that I never even thought about until EDTS 325 but reading different articles has shown me that blogging not only helps you organize and debrief from a busy, crazy day but can also help other teachers learn and grow who may be stuck on the same path as you. An article from Edutopia by Tsisana Palmer states 9 reasons why teachers should become bloggers. These nine reasons are share, reflect, public, improve your skills, serve others, lead your own PD, become a digital citizen, be ahead of your students, and public student work. These are all great ideas because it helps you, and other teachers learn from each other. Becoming a blogger as a teacher can impact so many other teachers and you can also get lots of information from other blogger teachers. Blogging as a teacher, you can share many different things with other teachers such as learning outcomes, and learning materials. Becoming a blogging teacher can benefit your classroom, school and yourself!