The article Education: Connecting the Lonely Profession by
Suzie Boss talks about what almost every teacher feels; isolation. Whether
you’re an experienced teacher, a new teacher joining a new team or student
teacher you tend to feel like the outside or loner of the group. Once we get
into the classrooms the isolation is still there, we are being held behind
closed doors to our “stage” and our grades that reflect us. We have all of this
responsibility and on top of it we are doing it alone if we are unable to setup
a support system with our peers. However being able to blog and connect with
teachers around the world helps get rid of that isolation for us. If you don't
have a support system within your building you can make one by connecting
online. You can then exchange ideas, lessons, and you can provide feedback or
get feedback from other teachers on your ideas and lessons. Not only does the Internet
help our students it also helps us. We should want to be team players and share
our lessons with other teachers in our field; I don't know why teachers are so
secretive about their lessons, they should offer them out to other teachers and
ask for criticism on them, that way they know if they should try something new
or change something. It would probably only take one teacher to do this in a
school for others to want to try and then without even realizing it all
teachers will be on the web sharing and connecting.
