Blogging Has Changed Me.
Blogging has changed me. I create things inwards my classroom, too I desire to part them. I desire to part them alongside the world. I desire to receive got a bigger acquit upon than the 85 students I run into on a daily basis. I larn from others. I receive got from others. I am a amend instructor because of blogs too twitter too the #MTBOS.
Blogging has raised the standards I receive got for myself. I don't desire to only learn the means I was taught. I don't desire to lecture at students who really aren't listening. I don't desire to hold upward content alongside the means I taught something before. It has opened my eyes to the various tricks I was taught inwards schoolhouse that create a disservice to my students.
Blogging connects me. I acquire e-mails too comments too messages from people, sharing a wealth of knowledge. I'm the only Algebra 2 instructor inwards my schoolhouse district. But, I am non alone. I am non lonely inwards this squall for to brand math fun too exciting too doable. I am non lonely inwards my struggles. I am inspired yesteryear others. I am inspired to hold upward better. I am inspired to create more. I am inspired to focus on what is genuinely important.
The to a greater extent than I receive got from this community, the to a greater extent than I desire to hit back. I hit because others receive got already given therefore much to me. I hit because I don't experience similar whatsoever of this is 100% mine. I read the ideas of others. And, my subconscious rearranges the ideas into something that I *think* powerfulness operate for my students. Sometimes, it does. Sometimes, it doesn't. When I mean value I create receive got an master idea, I ordinarily after notice something somewhere on the Internet that I hadn't realized had inspired me. So, I part what I create, too I endeavour to link dorsum to those who inspired me (when I recall who they are.)
I receive got pictures of everything. My students (except for mayhap 3 or four) all the same don't know nearly my blog. I'm non quite certain what they mean value when they run into me snapping pictures of activities alongside my camera. Okay. I approximate that's why I ever endeavour to receive got my pictures when nobody else is around. I've been known to unopen the door of my classroom when I'm working inwards in that place after schoolhouse therefore no 1 notices the flash of my camera. I only made it populace noesis to my facebook friends that I receive got a spider web log a dyad of weeks ago. It's only non something that I become unopen to telling people. I don't innovate myself every bit "Sarah Hagan, high schoolhouse math blogger." I'm definitely the only instructor inwards my district who blogs.
One of my students did notice me on twitter the other day, though. "Ms. Hagan! You're on twitter?!?!? How inwards the globe create y'all receive got 695 followers? I'm an officeholder inwards a national organization, too I don't fifty-fifty receive got that many followers!" I only laughed too said, "What? You didn't know I'm famous?"
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few months ago, I was driving downward the route on my means home. I receive got the same means abode 99.9998% of the time. One day, I noticed something new: an American flag sculpture made out of some type of bark or driftwood. After driving yesteryear it v days a calendar week for several weeks, I decided I needed to receive got a painting present of it. My sis is an fine art major, too I see I would part the painting present alongside her. Now, deciding to receive got a painting present too really doing it are dissimilar things. You see, this beautiful slice of artwork is at the corner of an intersection. So, I would involve to sort of halt my auto inwards the intersection to receive got the picture. I create alive inwards a small, pocket-sized town, therefore that's non that large of a deal. But, too therefore I started thinking, "What volition people mean value if they run into me taking a painting present of this?" I didn't desire people to mean value I was crazy. (That's kinda funny because I don't assist if my students mean value I'm crazy. In fact, if my students don't mean value I'm crazy, I haven't done my job!) So, I would brand certain I had my photographic tv set camera out too ready. If I saw anybody nearby, I would chicken out. Finally, I decided the coast was clear 1 day, too I took this picture.
Blogging has raised the standards I receive got for myself. I don't desire to only learn the means I was taught. I don't desire to lecture at students who really aren't listening. I don't desire to hold upward content alongside the means I taught something before. It has opened my eyes to the various tricks I was taught inwards schoolhouse that create a disservice to my students.
Blogging connects me. I acquire e-mails too comments too messages from people, sharing a wealth of knowledge. I'm the only Algebra 2 instructor inwards my schoolhouse district. But, I am non alone. I am non lonely inwards this squall for to brand math fun too exciting too doable. I am non lonely inwards my struggles. I am inspired yesteryear others. I am inspired to hold upward better. I am inspired to create more. I am inspired to focus on what is genuinely important.
The to a greater extent than I receive got from this community, the to a greater extent than I desire to hit back. I hit because others receive got already given therefore much to me. I hit because I don't experience similar whatsoever of this is 100% mine. I read the ideas of others. And, my subconscious rearranges the ideas into something that I *think* powerfulness operate for my students. Sometimes, it does. Sometimes, it doesn't. When I mean value I create receive got an master idea, I ordinarily after notice something somewhere on the Internet that I hadn't realized had inspired me. So, I part what I create, too I endeavour to link dorsum to those who inspired me (when I recall who they are.)
I receive got pictures of everything. My students (except for mayhap 3 or four) all the same don't know nearly my blog. I'm non quite certain what they mean value when they run into me snapping pictures of activities alongside my camera. Okay. I approximate that's why I ever endeavour to receive got my pictures when nobody else is around. I've been known to unopen the door of my classroom when I'm working inwards in that place after schoolhouse therefore no 1 notices the flash of my camera. I only made it populace noesis to my facebook friends that I receive got a spider web log a dyad of weeks ago. It's only non something that I become unopen to telling people. I don't innovate myself every bit "Sarah Hagan, high schoolhouse math blogger." I'm definitely the only instructor inwards my district who blogs.
One of my students did notice me on twitter the other day, though. "Ms. Hagan! You're on twitter?!?!? How inwards the globe create y'all receive got 695 followers? I'm an officeholder inwards a national organization, too I don't fifty-fifty receive got that many followers!" I only laughed too said, "What? You didn't know I'm famous?"
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few months ago, I was driving downward the route on my means home. I receive got the same means abode 99.9998% of the time. One day, I noticed something new: an American flag sculpture made out of some type of bark or driftwood. After driving yesteryear it v days a calendar week for several weeks, I decided I needed to receive got a painting present of it. My sis is an fine art major, too I see I would part the painting present alongside her. Now, deciding to receive got a painting present too really doing it are dissimilar things. You see, this beautiful slice of artwork is at the corner of an intersection. So, I would involve to sort of halt my auto inwards the intersection to receive got the picture. I create alive inwards a small, pocket-sized town, therefore that's non that large of a deal. But, too therefore I started thinking, "What volition people mean value if they run into me taking a painting present of this?" I didn't desire people to mean value I was crazy. (That's kinda funny because I don't assist if my students mean value I'm crazy. In fact, if my students don't mean value I'm crazy, I haven't done my job!) So, I would brand certain I had my photographic tv set camera out too ready. If I saw anybody nearby, I would chicken out. Finally, I decided the coast was clear 1 day, too I took this picture.
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| American Flag Yard Art |
This painting present is a reflection of my blogging journey. I used to fearfulness putting myself out in that place for the globe to see. I feared that I wasn't skillful enough. I feared my inadequacy. After all, I'm only portion means through my minute yr of teaching. I'm all the same figuring things out. I am a operate inwards progress. And, in that place are days when blogging isn't therefore fun. There are the comments that are cruel. There are the spider web log posts that I receive got ran across that criticize my approach to teaching. But, I've decided I don't care. I'm non blogging for you. I'm blogging for me. I'm blogging because I experience similar I involve to hit something back. If y'all select to usage something inwards your classroom, that's great. I'd dearest to hear nearly it. If y'all disagree alongside what y'all read, that's okay, too. I receive got all the same achieved my purpose. I receive got shared. And, I receive got been changed inwards the process.
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