{"id":149,"date":"2015-10-22T15:08:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T15:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelanceteacherselfdevelopment.wordpress.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2015-10-22T15:08:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T15:08:54","slug":"why-share-lessons-on-your-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/2015\/10\/22\/why-share-lessons-on-your-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Share Lessons on Your Blog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know whether many teachers are really concerned about what goes on in other teachers&#8217; classrooms. I am, but then I&#8217;m nosy. I want to know what their cool ideas are. I want to steal!<br \/>\nThat said, I&#8217;m not indiscriminate. I want to steal good stuff that I think will work with my learners. In that case, why do I have people in my personal learning network (PLN) based in across the world, when I&#8217;ve said before that learning can&#8217;t be generalised?<br \/>\nBecause I want to get ideas about flow. Because an idea that won&#8217;t work for me makes me think about why it won&#8217;t work and what I need to do in order to make it work. It&#8217;s part of the reason I set up the <a href=\"http:\/\/tokyolessonjam.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tokyo Lesson Jam<\/a>, which is way overdue another meeting (<em>December, when I finish my DipTESOL?<\/em>), so that I could steal other people&#8217;s cool stuff.<br \/>\nFor those of us who never get to do peer observations, reading lesson plans on blogs is like a glimpse into another teacher&#8217;s classroom. You get to say &#8216;<em>I wouldn&#8217;t do that, I&#8217;d do this<\/em>&#8216; (in a nice way, not a smart-arsed way). You might even say it in the comments of the blog. You might also see how somebody else solved a problem that you&#8217;re working on, or tried unsuccessfully to solve it. The internet is the easiest way to join a community of practice and people are welcoming. People will still say that your stupid ideas are stupid, but they will often say so nicely. They will then give you a better idea. If an idea or method should be rejected, you&#8217;ll be told why, and if anything usable can be salvaged from the wreck.<br \/>\nSo, yes, even if my stupid lessons wouldn&#8217;t work for your learners, it can still be useful provided you give the reasons why it wouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know whether many teachers are really concerned about what goes on in other teachers&#8217; classrooms. I am, but then I&#8217;m nosy. I want to know what their cool ideas are. I want to steal! That said, I&#8217;m not indiscriminate. I want to steal good stuff that I think will work with my learners. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[191,192,197,221,284,290],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa34By-2p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}