A new year and new opportunities. More responsibilities, too. A wife and daughter, a house being built, a new teaching position… it adds up to a lot.
Why start a blog about education? In the flurry of work and responsibilities, its important to keep your cool and find your peace. One of the ways I find it is by going home in the evenings knowing I did my best to contribute to my students’ education. I don’t feel that way everyday, and I’d like to change that.
I’ve decided that I want to become an educational mastermind. What’s that? It’s an educator that is current with all the new educational techniques out there, is inventive and creative, approaches education with passion, and is respected by both his peers and students alike.
In this blog, I plan on exploring education and being an educator. I’ll give my thoughts, ideas and opinions. Most importantly, I want to make it salient, practical and pragmatic; by reading this blog, you’ll learn specific techniques that will help you become a better educator.
I’m not writing this blog to be an authority, far from it in fact. I’m writing it because I don’t have a clue about a lot of this stuff, but I have an interest. Maybe I’ll learn a thing or two, and hopefully you will too. We’ll learn from teach other, and that’s key.
January 6th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Andre…Congratulations and best wishes on your new venture: EduMastermind. Research and common sense both tell us that a most effective way to bring about positive change in education is for practitioners to dialogue with each other. Your new site addresses that reality. As I read your first posting it occurred to me that you are promoting practitioner “geeks” in the classroom. Good! Too many “dorks” in the mix as it is.