Catherine Reed is a fourth-year teacher. She is sharing about how and why she is using Twitter in her 1st-grade classroom! she said that she loves seeing other professionals in their happy place and learn from their classrooms. She is a passion for turning to alternative methods to build her professional networks – blogs, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, etc. She is sharing her twitter account and taking the permission from the family at the beginning of the year, for their child’s face and work to be shared in this way. She comments Twitter offer families and real-time view of what is happening in our classroom. So often our students arrive home to be asked – “How was your day? What do you all do?” and so often, our they respond “Nothing.” or “I don’t know ” While our 1st-grade team does things to prevent that. Everyday family can see students reading, work on
pyramid words, and
writing a story
Why TWITTER works in classrooms?
From her perspective, she said that twitter is important to build up a community's teachers. The top reason is she tweets to connect with other first grade classrooms. There are 14 elementary schools in that district and between schools, there are only little pockets of collaboration or communication. As classrooms following, the same scope and sequence, Twitter allow them to see:
- What’s actually happening from other 1st grade classrooms.
- What does their student work look like?
- What was their math mini-lesson about on any day?
- How do they celebrate student success?
My reflection on her idea is I love the fact that she's connecting with the families and the other schools. Also, I like the ability in how she can pick up ideas and see how things going in other classes. Absolutely, she's motivated to try new things in different ways.
References
Reed, C. (2015). Twitter in the classroom. [teacher]. Retrieved from http://brownbagteacher.com/twitter-in-classroom/
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