A flash of (borrowed) inspiration from a fellow W1 instructor who is also blogging. In addition to my class blog, I have now created a lesson-planning blog.
I used to write my lesson plans on a notepad, or a word document, or whatever was nearby. Now I plan by blogging about it. The room I'm in has a computer embedded in the table, so I can just as easily look at the computer as a notepad.
This blog gives me a running archive of my lesson plans. Better yet, I can go back after class and post a comment which sums up the strengths and weaknesses of the lesson plan I just used.
I'm the only author-reader of this new blog, so I don't have to worry that my students might stumble across it while browsing Blogger.
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Courtney, this is a brillaint idea! What a fantastic way to organize your reflective process as a teacher. This is something I may suggest to my future teacher eduation students. Also, I want to point out that a frequent component of teaching portfolios (especially those used for the tenuring process) is a statement about how one works to improve one's teaching -- this tool could be mentioned there, and could also provide a way to remember other ideas you have for making improvements that you might want to include in such a statement.
Also, there are times when one might want to make one's pedagogical thinking transparent -- for example, if one is teaching future teachers. I could see myself using a planning blog and making it readable by my students in a teacher education course.
Cool, cool, idea.
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