Twitter Chats To Grow Your PLN

This week I participated in my first Twitter chats. I took part of #educoach on Wednesday at 10pm. I also participated in #atPLC at 9pm on Thursday and #PLC101 at 10pm on Thursday. I had participated in twitter "chats" during conferences, but these were my first REAL chats. I LOVED IT!!!
I wanted to write just a little bit here about how I think they can be beneficial to your PLN.

1. You connect with other educators
2. You can easily ask a question and get a variety of answers from other educators.
3. You can earn PD hours for just chatting with new colleagues and friends.
4. You can find new workshops and conferences to attend.

Teacher Tip of the Day

Tip #1: Make content relatable to the students. If you know your students enjoy texting (who doesn't?!) then make your math problems be about texting. Have them decode text messages in English class. Translate them in your languages class. Or, give them a fact about how many texts are sent out each month, by an average student. Have them discuss what mathematical problems could be derived from the fact.

If you give a person a fish, you feed them for a day. If you teach someone to fish, you teach them for a lifetime.

Teacher Tip of the Day

Tip #2: Make the most of the Common Core Standards by making sure that you keep a checklist of which standards are addressed by certain assessments. This can make lesson planning, reporting back to your superiors and your record keeping easier.