This website works well to build up ideas and resources for future planning. It is easy to find and store ideas, and equally easy to retrieve and revisit these ideas at the appropriate time.
I would find this easier to use if I were already a practicing teacher, as I would have more experience with what tips would be helpful, and which would not be necessary or healthy to implement. One possible idea to improve this may be to have a button for teachers to rate the relevance of the material using a positive or negative button, resulting in a cumulative score for each piece of material, by which others could discern its value. Pinterest related to Educational Psychology and Foundations of Teaching as it is full of resources that could enforce and reiterate the concepts from these two courses. I could use Pinterest in my future classroom in many ways to gather ideas. If I had material that I was having difficulties conveying to the students, I could search what other teachers have done. If I needed creative and enhancing classroom decorations, I could go to Pinterest to find those sorts of ideas as well. Any time that students needed help or encouragement that I would have trouble providing for them, I could look to Pinterest to at least get me started with ideas. |
Pinterest is a site on which individuals can browse possible ideas, such as for a classroom, and save them into an organized category which they have previously created. From this point, individuals can also share these ideas with others, and collaborate to develop the ideas, and allow others to have a part in the process. In order to create a professional account, I signed into the site using a different username and email address from my personal account
When I began to create my own categories, called "boards" I was required to create Resources for Content, Resources for Pedagogy, and Resources for Students. I also, of my own accord, created a board, Education Quotes. Resources for Content is a category in which to include all ideas that I glean from others pertaining to materials that have been proven to help students and teachers with different subject units. This could be a poster for learning grammar rules, math rules, spelling rules, and many others; or it could be a link to a site with ideas for any of these subjects. Resources for Pedagogy includes ideas for the teacher to attempt to imitate other teachers in their methods that have worked for teaching any form of content. Resources for Students includes any sites or additional tools that help students work through the material on their own. I created Education Quotes because I found proverbs, insights, and advice that was helpful for me to see, but did not quite fit into any of the other categories. I wanted to be able to recover that material if I ever needed professional encouragement, so I created a board that it would fit into. Pinterest fits into Component 4D as it encourages educators to participate in a professional community. Teachers can contribute ideas to the pool of resources, and the can also draw insightful tips from the resources to use in their own classrooms. This helps the teachers to develop virtual relationships with colleagues across the nation, and around the world, as well as encouraging them to develop a culture of professional inquiry. When teachers contribute material, and borrow material from other teachers they are communicating with one another, and connecting with each other through the internet. Teachers engage in professional inquiry when they search for ideas in the feed, or when they post provocative pieces for others to use. |