Happy 2017 #MTBoS!! With every new year comes the opportunity to commit yourself to positive habits. If you navigated the series of tubes to this post, then you probably are interested in\u00a0writing about math teaching and learning, or supporting those who do. For people who plan to start 2017 blogging, or people who want to them on, I present a individualized, flexible initiative, to support writers and streamline process for readers who follow along. It’s the #MTBoSblogsplosion!<\/p>\n
It’s been shown that the practice of writing reflective helps one think deeper and helps the brain make connections. The collective blog posts can form an accurate snapshot of teaching and education in a world where the realities of the classroom can be lost beneath messages from people outside of education. When initiatives like this take place, it affords the opportunity for writers and readers to have real conversations, helping to strengthen the bonds that make the #MTBoS<\/a> such a wonderful place.<\/p>\n Simply put, bloggers will decide the kind of blogging they can commit to, then they will blog, and all of it will be shared on social media with the hashtag #MTBoSblogsplosion so others can follow along.<\/p>\n You can think about it as a 3 step process. Step 1 is to make a commitment<\/strong><\/span> to a realistic amount of blogging. Maintaining work-life balance isn’t easy, and the #MTBoSblogsplosion isn’t trying to force that to be much harder. Choose the kind of blogging commitment that makes sense to you. Start with a regular Frequency<\/strong> such as:<\/p>\n Then you may want to choose a duration<\/strong>, or how long you want this to go. Maybe the month of January would work for you?\u00a0Maybe you want to take it through February vacation, go for it! Do you only want to dip your toes in the water and go for two weeks?\u00a0That’s also great!<\/p>\n Finally, you may want to focus<\/strong> your writing. Here you want to think about whether you want to document what is going on in your class, maybe you want to write about the different tasks that you’ve been working on, maybe you want to discuss your new role as department chair. It may help people to write with\u00a0prompts, if so you can do that.\u00a0Here are prompts and some other ideas:<\/p>\n If it doesn’t help you to have a focus, then don’t pressure yourself, feel free to leave it open.<\/p>\n So now you’ve got a commitment. You’ve decided an amount, a duration, and a focus. Step 2\u00a0is to share your commitment<\/strong><\/span>. Twee this out as a nice sentence so readers can know what you’re trying to do, and cheer you on! For example:<\/p>\n After that initial tweet comes Step 3, start blogging<\/strong><\/span>! \u00a0Each time you post, tweet out a link along with the hashtag #mtbosblogsplosion.<\/p>\n And now the final step… Step 4 is to read and support others<\/strong><\/span>. The best part of initiatives like this is the positive energy and support you can get to reach your goals. Help generate and spread this energy by reading and leaving comments for other #MTBoSblogsplosion posts. This is a step that people can do even if they skipped the first 3 steps.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy 2017 #MTBoS!! With every new year comes the opportunity to commit yourself to positive habits. 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