One great thing about being a teacher is being able to learn from your colleagues. Twitter is a great place to follow other teachers' accounts and learn new classroom ideas and perspectives. To find five educators to follow I did quite a bit of experimenting on twitter and the internet.
The first account I followed is @Teach_Preschool and the reason I followed her is because she is a very well respected preschool teacher. Being an early childhood education major, I can teach preschool to third grade so I thought it would be interesting to get all different aspects from different level teachers. Her account is all about the preschoolers she teaches including different learning activites, arts and crafts, as well as recipes.
After following the account above, twitter recommended someone for me to follow with the handle of @mattBgomez who is a kindergarten teacher with lots of followers in the twitter world. Most of Matts tweets consist of things he has learned from being a teacher and also lots of his tweets are responding to certain chats he takes place in on twitter. One of my favorite tweets that Matt posted said, "I have learned that just because something is easy and works doesn't mean it is best for the kids". Following Matt gives me his viewpoints and brings up good discussion topics.
Another account I followed was first grade teacher @kathycassidy and I liked her twitter account because it is completely different that both of the educators above. The objective of her twitter account is to give educators around the world a good look into her classroom. She has posted 350+ pictures showing what goes on in her classroom. Being new to the world of teaching it is definitely a good idea to follow this account and have ideas for my future classroom.
I also followed an early childhood account mixed together with literacy practices for kids with the handle of @literacycounts. this account is different ways to encourage children to read as well as different activities to help kids learn how to read. I am currently taking a phonics class and I thought following this account was really interesting and it also tied in some of the things I have learned in that class.
The last account I followed was @Prekpages. Although I always thought of myself teaching in 1-3 grade classroom, this semester I will be observing in a PreK class. This account has the best of both worlds with pictures from her classroom as well as activities that can be done in the classroom.
Although there are way more accounts that would be beneficial to my teaching and future classroom, I am glad that I took a deeper look on these educator's twitter accounts. I am looking forward to keeping up with their accounts and their posts to come!
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