Day 30: How Can You Use What You’ve Learned about Commenting to Change Your Teaching Practices?

Now that we’re winding down in the Comment Challenge, it’s time for some reflection. For today’s task, I want you to consider what you’ve learned about the give and take of commenting and how it might apply in a classroom. What lessons did you learn about what it means to "speak up" through comments that is applicable to working with students? What did you learn about how to deal with things like dissent, asking questions, communication, etc. through this process that might influence your teaching practices, either on or off-line?

The main thing I have learned from participating in the Comment Challenge is that it takes a conscious effort .

How will this influence my teaching?

Being asked to reflect on certain questions during this challenge has taken me down paths that alone I would not even have envisioned that these existed. Guiding questions are an amazing tool to allow others to explore on their own and according to their perspective and circumstances.

How will this transfer to my teaching?

How can I rely on the teachers I teach to ask the "right" questions (this is by no means a reflection on their intelligence). How can you envision incorporating tools in your practice that you are not aware of their existence? Communicating and guiding through comments is a great way to leave the "ball in your students’ court".

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Posted: 27. June, 2008 at 6:56 pm. Filed under: Blogging.
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