A few weeks ago George Couros wrote a blog called Why Teachers Love Teaching (As Shared by Teachers). Sometimes, it is easy for us to stray from thinking about why we were originally called to this amazing profession. Especially, when external mandates, testing, behavior issues, minutia, etc. can permeate our everyday routine. After you read the post and tweets, ask yourself, why do you love what you do?
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We know that embedding reflective experiences for our students will help them to grow and learn, but how often do we carve out time ourselves to truly reflect on our own practices? The following article "44 Prompts Merging Reflective Teaching with Bloom's Taxonomy" provides a series of reflective questions from the perspectives of students, teachers, and administrators. Choose one of the questions and take some time to reflect upon how you can learn and grow yourself. |