Educational Professional Development @ GLC
2019/20 School year
Now that the school year 2019/20 is getting to its end, I feel blessed and thankful because embarking on this journey @GLC and coming to Colombia has offered me many opportunities to grow as a multicultural and bilingual (trilingual) educator and ESL coordinator.
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What at the beginning of the school year seemed to be unfortunate, turned out to be exhausting but rewarding. I am referring to the fact a teacher left and I had to take 10 hours of class. In fact, taht was my first blessing, as being in the classroom, interacting with students on a daily basis and growing with them as the shcool year passess is my real passion.
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Luckily arriving at school with a beginner's mind and a growth mindset helped a lot to make the most of my first year @GLC. Everything in this year could be possible, as even Covid-19 situation has proved.
Reflections on teachers' class observations
"The most powerful form of learning, the most sophisticated form of staff development, comes not from listening to the good works of others, but from sharing what we know with others... By reflecting on what we do, by giving it coherence, and by sharing and articulating our craft knowledge, we make meaning, we learn. Teachers in a learning community... are not "inserviced." Instead they engage in continuous inquiry about teaching. They are researchers, students of teaching, who observe others teach, have others observe them talk about teaching, and help other teachers. In short, they are professionals."
Roland Barth, Improving Schools from Within (1990)
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In my view, a project doesn't start in 'stage 1', but instead...
It starts with the first thoughts on the excited and enthusiastic teachers in collaboration, followed by a revision following the 'critical friends' protocol by the rest of the community of educators, and develops through the students' perspectives, to end up with what should be the result of their own voice and choice.
When we think about our digital teaching and learning, shall we think about those digital tools that we have used or have learned to use, or shall we rather consider how those tools have helped us boost our students' learning process, and our teachers' teaching?
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In this section, I've shared how these digital tools and resources made an impact on my teaching and learning during Covid-19 schooling.
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ZOOM
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Mentimeter
- Flipgrid
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Padlet
- Powtoon
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Google Classroom & much more
¿Cómo mejorar el bienestar socioemocional de tus estudiantes?
Video recorded in Flipgrid as part of the GLC educators' professional development
Reflection on lessons learned in learning communities & trainings
Student-led conferences
Reading program by Lucy Calkins
Units of Study 1
Units of Study 2
Running records
REC Conferences @GLC
