Thursday, June 12, 2008

Thing 2- 7-1/2 habits of effective lifelong learners

The habits are very common sense, and if applied, would help more people reach more of their goals. I think we do a lot of these things already without knowing about it, but the habits help us become more organized and reinforce what we are already doing to make us more successful. I plan to implement some of these strategies into student goal setting in my classroom. One of my goals is to learn to how to blog. I'm hoping this will become something that can be used between myself (teacher) and my students and their parents, and/or between myself and other art teachers in our district. I am constantly introducing more technology into my work and home experience, and am excited about learning about new and free online tools available to me. I feel my largest obstacle is time constraints and interruptions, so my plan of attack is to schedule 1-2 hours early in the morning each day before my family is awake to work on the 23 Things. That way time will not slip away from me and I will be able to finish in the allotted timeframe, and also avoid interruptions.

I have always been an advocate of lifelong learning, and I tell people all the time that I have learned more after I became a teacher than I did during college. Teaching others forces me to always learn new things as well as reinforces my learning, especially since I repeat the same lesson 5 times each day.

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