Ms. Yollis stressed the importance
of finding new and meaningful ways to engage and motivate her young students.
Being in the profession for over 25 years, it was very important to her to stay
up to date and continuously find new and innovating ways to reach her students.
As a teacher, though your teaching style may remain the same, your students
change with every year that passes (especially as new technology is being
innovated), and it’s important to know how to reach your target audience and
integrate curriculum in creative ways. Her classroom blog not only helped
develop quality literacy skills in her students, but it also included parents
which strengthened the home-school connection. With technology being a vital
part of today’s world, she made a very good point that it takes longer than a
one-week unit lesson to teach students how to be active, contributing members
of an online community while practicing Internet safety and building a positive
digital footprint. Her classroom blog allows her to continuously teach these
skills while providing a safe, fun, and engaging platform for students to use.
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