Share your practice

I keep telling you, the internet has a tried and tested way of promoting growth and development of ideas :

Create content
Share content
Get feedback
Grow content

It is a self perpetuating method of resourcing our world with ideas. We can now readily share experience. We can readily find authentic help when we need it. The We are Teachers blog is one of those places where teachers can constantly find a wealth of ideas and experience. Our own professional standards site ,aitsl, in Australia is getting very good at sharing real and valuable ways of encouraging us to work with the performance standards and then share those experiences. It is connecting us but it is up to us. We need to share our practice as teachers no matter what we are doing and at what stage of our career we are. That authenticity rings clearly through cyberspace and generates invaluable content for those seeking it. For an isolated teacher it is crucial. Not all teachers are a part of a big ,dynamic school. When we share, we reach out to others and offer them our experiences and knowledge. It can only  broaden everyone’s practice. It will put us all on a stronger footing and we will make natural and reliable connections with each other. This week We are Teachers put up a post by a new teacher. It will help other new teachers. It will turn a year’s work into something which will go into cyberspace and add to our common knowledge and improved professional practice. Social media is now a place where new teachers can quickly get help and support from more experienced teachers no matter where they are teaching. It is also a place where you can quickly crowd source ideas for projects you have in mind. Technology has added something we have never had before and that is an opportunity to have a wide, positive impact for the benefit of all.