Exploring Educational Bloggers
When exploring educational bloggers as a novice student teacher, I'm overwhelmed by the knowledge and resources I have found. I see the value each blogger delivers to the teaching community and how all these pieces of information can be added to my teaching practice to complete the puzzle. The Educators' ideas and creativity are boundless. It provides teachers with many resources, from interactive and engaging activities to helpful strategies, insight to be the best teacher, and help with classroom management. Bloggers and content creators understand the importance of a teacher's time and are committed to all teacher's successes. Having a community of educators benefits all, as it is a very challenging occupation, and we are learning that we cannot do it without a support network. I have discovered three bloggers whose content contributes value to me, my professional learning network, and the educational community.
First, I would like to introduce Nat Banting, a master teacher here in Canada. He teaches at St. Francis Xavier University and the University of Saskatchewan. He has received several awards for his contributions to STEM math with his innovative teachings. If you need creative ideas for math games and activities, head to his blog at the math fair. His platform is vital for teachers teaching math, specifically high school math, with various resources. He has all areas of math divided into categories of topics in math and documents you can print off for free on his site. Because of his shared content and resources, it is a valuable platform for lifelong learning as a new student teacher and in my career. These mathematical resources will be beneficial if I teach math, especially in high school, but it has some fantastic ideas even for elementary. Nat Banting's site will be my go-to for all math-related lesson ideas from an expert Teacher.
Secondly, I would like to introduce Patti, an Ontario Teacher who created Madly Learning. She provides a diverse range of resources in today's technologically advanced world. She develops relevant and evolving resources while fostering a culture of curiosity. Harnessing the value of inquiry-based learning, she has curriculum ideas for grades 4-6: science, social study, math, literacy, assessment, and differentiation. A valuable platform for lifelong learning as a new educator, as the resources offered on her site will be used. She can be found on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook and also creates videocast episodes for viewers to watch while they shop on her site for the content she has created.
Lastly, Rundes Room is the Mary Poppins of bloggers. When you open the site, you have an abundance amount of creative content and informative blogs. What caught my eye was the post about hooks to capture their engagement and step-by-step tips for the first day. As a new teacher, this site will be my go-to when planning my first days and months. Runde's room is the Mary Poppins handbag in the education world, with endless free resources on her site. The value of wisdom she provides on her blogging site is significant. My takeaway from this teacher and what I found helpful as a novice educator is when she said that you must be intentional about every item in the room and that it must provide value to learning. As a student teacher, this influenced me to consider what I'm doing to be purposeful and meaningful to student learning. Let's optimize our teaching time by eliminating unnecessary fillers, which was another incredible takeaway from this blogger.
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