Calling all you dedicated, hardworking, committed and just a little crazy teachers! Another blog you say? NO way! I've been teaching for 22 years and I do NOT want a blog with craft ideas, reading group suggestions, 100 days of school activities, or how to make a baking soda volcano. This blog is for the bold, daring, creative, adventurous, and still just a little crazy teachers who dare to think and GO outside the box in how and what you teach.
What good is another teacher blog? Had this been created to perpetuate the more than 7 million blogs that have been posted since 2003, I would say, "It's no good." But this blog has been created for the very wise, avant garde, and globally minded. It is for those of us who have always been considered a "different" kind of teacher. The good of teacher blogging is polymorphous, especially to this blog. When you blog with other teachers, you spark the synapses of your brain in new and exciting ways. Even if you, like I, have been teaching for half (or more) of your lifetime, by searching out others and engaging in stimulating exchanges, you can and will improve your teaching for the current generation of teachers. We have not yet tapped the full capability of our brains, so let's do that here. Teacher blogging with teacher, under carefully constructed constraints, can keep the dull cobwebs of monotony out our classrooms and excite both us and our students - keeping you saying, "I'm a teacher and I love my job!"
What won't work: the same idea stated in slightly different ways, something MOST teachers already know, long descriptions and complicated verbiage that becomes tedious to wade through, nonspecific information, comments about loving/not loving your job. etc.
Are teacher blogs effective? They sure can be if the posts are short, to the point, succinct, and unique!
I will continue to mold and shape this blog as long as I think it can develop what I envision. If it doesn't take on the form I'm seeking, I will abandon it and accept it as a lesson well learned.
