Asking Questions Almost My Blogging

My approach to blogging is changing. My approach to the #MTBoS is changing. Let's live honest. My approach to teaching is changing. Life, inwards general, has changed a lot these terminal few months.

Life has been oh-so-busy. Grad schoolhouse is oh-so-time-consuming. Teaching is oh-so-hectic-as-always. Being featured on NPR was oh-so-exciting. Dating a guy who lives on the other side of the solid soil is oh-so-awesome-and-exciting-and-just-a-tiny-bit-insane. Blogging has sort of taken a backseat to the residual of life lately. It is forcing me to reverberate on only why blogging is important.

Do I desire to blog? Yes.

Do I conduct maintain things I desire to spider web log about? Absolutely.

Do I conduct maintain fourth dimension to blog? Debatable.

Do I take away to blog? No.

Should I blog? Most certainly.

Some days, I experience similar blogging is inwards my blood. Except that's non true. My parents aren't bloggers. I don't come upward from a identify unit of measurement of writers. However, when my friends inwards high schoolhouse were exploring Xanga, MySpace, in addition to Facebook, I was a wanna-be knitting blogger. The knitting stage didn't last, but my dear of blogging did.

As I told an NPR reporter recently, I discovered the #MTBoS circa 2006. I was a high schoolhouse trig pupil who was looking for assistance amongst her math homework. A google search led me to the Math Teacher Mambo blog. Shireen's approach to teaching the theme made consummate sense to me. I wondered why my trig instructor hadn't explained the concept that manner inwards the commence place. I started to wonder only how many other math teaching strategies at that spot were out at that spot that I wasn't aware of. So, high schoolhouse junior me started reading math instructor blogs. Of course, I'd already decided at this betoken that I wanted to live a teacher. But, I'm pretty sure that reading math instructor blogs sealed the bargain on my beingness a MATH teacher.

When I ran out of posts to read on Math Teacher Mambo, I started next links inwards the comments to other math instructor bloggers. I started a google MD to re-create in addition to glue the URLs of activities I wanted to practise amongst my ain students i day. To me, this was a perfectly normal affair to practise every bit a high schoolhouse student. Though, I'm learning that this only makes people recall I'm weird. I recall I prefer the term strangely passionate. When I'm committed to something, I become all-in.

(Here's a link to the most recent NPR spider web log postal service I was mentioned in. I was able to utter upward the MTBoS a flake inwards this one. :D)

Upon starting to pass fourth dimension inwards classrooms spell a math instruction student, I decided it was fourth dimension to commence my ain blog. So, I did. I didn't actually conduct maintain much to write nearly at that point. But, I felt this compulsion to give dorsum to the community that I already owed then much to. I owed these people then much, in addition to they didn't fifty-fifty conduct maintain a clue who I was. That was something I needed to fix. As I started pupil teaching, I started writing to reverberate on what I was seeing in addition to experiencing inwards the classroom.

My blogging became to a greater extent than earnest every bit I started my commence yr of teaching inwards a tiny town where I was all of a abrupt the most experienced fellow member of the math department. I didn't actually know what I was doing. Oh, I would pretend I knew what I was doing inwards my classroom. My blog, though, was my chance to acknowledge that I didn't conduct maintain this whole teaching affair figured out. I soundless don't conduct maintain this teaching affair figured out, in addition to I'm almost done amongst my 3rd year. I'm good aware that I'm never going to figure out this whole teaching thing. When I recall I've got it figured out, that's when I take away to quit in addition to detect a unlike job.

This spider web log has long been my conduct chances to live honest. Writing is the best manner I've constitute to procedure what is going on inwards my caput in addition to inwards my classroom. Writing requires thought. Reflection. Patience. Time. People give thank you lot me for beingness then opened upward nearly my successes in addition to my many failures inwards the classroom. I didn't laid out to showcase my bright ideas inwards a blog. My spider web log should live a reflection of what someone would meet if they spent a chunk of fourth dimension inwards my classroom. A few awesome lessons. Many to a greater extent than only mediocre lessons. A salubrious dose of fun in addition to games. A picayune piece of my personal life exterior the classroom. Lots in addition to lots of foldables. Tons of laughter. And, a few tears sprinkled in, too.

Let's acquire dorsum to the questions I answered earlier. I desire to blog. I honestly savor it. And, there's a ton of materials I haven't blogged about. So many notebook pages that it's kinda crazy. Then, there's all the tiny snippets of ideas that could live fleshed into something then much better. Time to spider web log is where I struggle. Grad schoolhouse takes time. Maintaining a long-distance human relationship takes time. Blogging takes time. There are solely then many hours inwards the day. It would live crazy to recall I could provide to my in i trial a 24-hour interval blogging of terminal summer. But, I tin ship away practise a ameliorate chore of blogging to a greater extent than regularly.

Do I take away to blog? This is the reply that has changed the most for me. Two or 3 years ago, this would conduct maintain been a most definite yes. Blogging was how I connected to other teachers. It's how I kept from feeling completely isolated. I would come upward domicile from schoolhouse during that commence yr in addition to plough to twitter for advice on a regular basis. And, twitter would come upward through for me.

I'm to a greater extent than confident inwards my teaching now. Do I soundless conduct maintain materials to learn? Yes! But, I tin ship away grip the day-to-day requirements of beingness a instructor on my own. Before, I would spider web log nearly lessons because I had no i to order nearly them otherwise. Dating a math instructor who is only every bit obsessed amongst teaching math every bit me way I conduct maintain some other outlet for talking nearly how my 24-hour interval went or how awesome my newest foldable is.

So, MTBoS, deplorable to nation this, but I only don't take away you lot the manner I used to. But, don't acquire me wrong. I soundless dear you. I adore you. You've made me into the instructor I am today. And, you're going to proceed making me into a ameliorate teacher. You see, I'm non nearly to halt blogging. I may non take away to blog. But, I should blog.

Blogging makes me a ameliorate teacher. Blogging forces me to reflect. Blogging opens me to novel ideas in addition to suggestions from others. There's something powerful nearly trying to position into words what happened inwards my classroom. I don't naturally reverberate on my teaching every bit deeply or thoroughly every bit I should. The uncomplicated deed of blogging makes that spill out for me, though.

So, I'm going to proceed blogging. And, I'm hopefully going to live blogging more. I recall you'll notice a alter inwards my posts, however. Expect less long, inwards depth posts. Expect to a greater extent than brusque posts that give you lot a snippet of something that happened inwards my classroom in addition to my reflections on it. I've got then many ideas that I desire to share, but I conduct maintain this fearfulness that they're non substantial plenty for a spider web log post. I've decided I'm going to spider web log nearly them anyway. It's my blog. I desire to spider web log nearly them. And, I promise someone volition detect them to live useful.