Connections and being a connected teacher. This is something I hadn’t given much thought to or realised the importance of. Being an educator, it’s important to be connected to others, whether its peers, friends, family, students and their families as well as the outside community. By being connected, we are able to receive feedback or search for new ideas – continuing our own learning journey.
My current connections include friends from primary school in Helensville as well as most of the towns community. My past teachers from Intermediate and High School. My friends I made when attending Mount Albert Grammar School. My family. My peers and friends I’ve made through the University of Auckland in my degree and outside of my degree. My friends in various professional sports teams or corporate companies and finally my friends and family from other countries.
Being connected through many different people and communities allows for different perspectives and scopes of feedback – further allowing us to get a great collective of information to better ourselves. Even being connected through various social media accounts allows for people like myself to see new ideas online or just keep up with whats going on and continue in myself being relevant – eg. New lingo, news and even cool PE teaching resources through facebook.
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