PLCs and teacher collaboration

       Profession learning communities (PLC) enable teachers and administrators to work together to improve students learning. Examples are setting goals by using meetings, classroom visits, and cooperative planning. The barrier between teachers themselves becomes smaller, new teachers that are lost on a subject can ask veteran teachers for assistance.  New teachers can become stressed, not connected, or lost, in a new school. The environment can be difficult to cope with, because the demands of your job are on your students performance. New teachers need help on how to run things, how to push students to new levels, or how to teach a subject matter that is tough. I recently have observed 4 science classrooms and many of the teachers learn more things about the subject of biology as they teach. So new teachers won't know everything, therefore, veteran teachers need to assist the younger teachers. Teachers can communicate through email, the lunch room, observing a veteran classroom or using their lessons.

   I always use technology to connect with liked peers. Its so simple to use another teachers lesson plan, or power point presentations. Their are websites that teachers think you, as a new teachers, should visit and steal ideas. I do think, the professional website is going to help me when I move into the field more and the websites i use. Email are the largest technology tool I have used. When I have an issue at school with my athletic director ( AD) or an assistant principal (AP), they email me. Its so simple, so I have used technology to communicate with my peers and veteran teachers. 

Copyright in the Future

After watching, Creative commons: What every Educator needs to know,    I recognized that copyrighting happens. Do I think its good, of course not, but did I think it happen so often, not at all! The problem with copyright and how it affects our students of today, its easy to do. The short film talks about a video game, for example Halo, being a difficult game and people result to cheat codes to pass a game. This is teaching our students to constantly result in looking for a fast way out and allowing our students of the future to think, there is nothing wrong with the easy route. Classrooms and video games are very alike in comparison to finding short cuts to get work done. Educator need to find ways to make students think and I don't find a book find the right answer, not using Google.

So in the classroom, I think this routine is going to grow and not improve until educator find a different route to help kids besides the computer. The classroom may need to be a place where a large portion of work needs to be done, and less lecture. Reason, that students will have to find answers away from computers and using sole themselves or the instructor.

Lastly, Social network is a great way to meet people, find things about your old friends, and socialize. But it also can lead to discussion on how to pass and exam. Like the video stated, sharing vs. cheating, whats the difference? Is it okay? Where is the line between them? That a question that depends on the person and the content, in my point of view. I think, students that assist their peers by giving clues or background knowledge of the subject matter is good learning but giving another student a clear answers is cheating. Copyright is something that is not going to go away. Educator need to find a common language or guideline that promotes students to think logically without using cheat sheets. Maybe we can start by no making them for video games, who wouldn't want to play Call of Duty 4, straight up!

 

CLRN

      CLRN, California Learning Resources Network, is a website with learning resources for teachers in their content area.  Examples of resources are online classes, home school tutorials, in class video, and animated  lessons. Some look beneficial to use in a classroom and some look boring, not interactive, and not something I would use in my classroom. 


      Teaching is a profession which takes dedication, time, and focus in different content areas. I want to teach high school biology, which is usually 9-10 graders. I found three resources and they are provide interactions, background knowledge, and pertain to biology. First, benchmark media which is a internet resource that provides concept or school development, practice, assessment in science. The resource that caught my eye, it works in a lab and in a classroom. I took biology in high school and college, I found that learning in a different atmosphere that is not, your standard classroom, is a great way to learn. Second, interactive tutorials, a program that works of any computer home or school. As a teacher using tutorials in my class, can allow students background knowledge of the subject. If students missed a topic in class because they were absent, for example, they can review the tutorial on a subject matter. The topic used of the resource network was animal, bacterial, and plant cells. These cell have organelles or components in them that needed to be listed. Computers can make it graphic and use animation, which will make the lesson better to read. Third, internet textbook, this resource gives background knowledge, concepts and skills, history, and tools used in life science. I would use this in the classroom because it gives a background knowledge which gives students something to look forward to, when the lesson begins. Internet notebooks have pros and cons, using in a classroom will allow students to review them, but students can fall behind by not doing the work. As a teacher, reviewing information that is done outside of class may be difficult. So, for background knowledge i would use it in my classroom, but as a base of learning, I think that should come from the teacher.