Blogs

As a future teacher, I will implement blogs into my classroom as a teaching tool. Blogging in the classroom can have various benefits. They help us, as teachers, to understand our students a little better through their writing-when they’re at home in a more comfortable setting familiar to them, their personality will just shine through their writing; They allow the students to engage with one another; They help the student to enjoy writing as a conversation and arouse their interest in learning; They allow the student to become a better writer through student and teacher critiques or comments; They help to encourage computer literacy.

Blogs also help to keep the parents involved. Blogs can give them easy access to view their child’s workload and their work progress, as well as what the teacher is doing, what the teacher is teaching their child, and what the teacher expects of his/her students. Blogs also give the parent(s) an easy means to contact their child’s teacher and they can interact with other parents as well.

Blogs give teachers extra room to customize material needed to be learned in the classroom. There are many different ways that I, as a future educator, and other educators can beneficially use blogs and implement them in our classrooms. I will post notices and announcements for other faculty members, parents, and students-this is a good way to keep everyone updated on upcoming events and important dates. I will also post classroom topics, discussions, and assignments to my blog that supplement our in-class lecture and have the students respond according to my standards and/or requirements. Also included will be an area dedicated to student questions that both I and the students can respond to and an area for parents’ statements and questions that I can answer, as well as things the parents may need to know about student expectations and ways that they can help.