Here is a recent post from my blog
SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 2010
The focus needs to be on the Students
There has been a lot of chatting on Twitter about No Child left Behind, The Race to the Top, as well as standards and teaching to the Test.
To be honest I have only taught in the private sector and I am not sure what the Race to the top actually is. Besides getting some money from a NCLB grant I don't know much about that either, and we don't have district standards that we must meet.
However Here is what I do know:
1. The focus of our teaching has to be on each individual student and meeting the needs of our students
2. We should be more concerned in creating an atmosphere the enables our students to be life long learners and give them the skills they need for life.
3. We have to engage our students and make the learning real and not just teach for a pen and paper test.
4.No matter what the government says we need to insure the success of all of our students. As the famous quote from Apollo 13 "Failure is Not and Option"
5 We as teachers need to willing to adopt and`change and meet the needs of 21st Century learners.
There is a lot that needs to change in our education system and I certainly don't know enough about what needs to change nor do I have the answers. However in my opinion in we would focus on the five points I mentioned above I believe we will go a long way to helping our students which has to be our primary concern
Those are my thoughts
Akevy
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Kol hakavod on your initiative! However, I'm an English teacher to deaf and hard of hear students here in Israel and am not involved in this topic.
Best of Luck!
Naomi
My unsolicited suggestion is that you might want to use your organizational skills to develop a rotation of bloggers/writers etc and ask them to commit to writing once a month or once every two months, i.e. the PLN can have say four blogs a month and discussions around those blogs as they relate to what you hope to accomplish here. The idea being that a) it won't fall all on your shoulders 2) ideas will be fresh and varied b) you give your network time to develop and expand.
Okay, that was my two cents.