How You Can Get Involved and Help

It has been our experiences over many years in education, that teachers have two general characteristics: they view themselves as isolated and alone and fighting the good fight without support of parents, administrators, boards of education, etc.; and they usually don't consider themselves to be very creative.

Please stop thinking that way and consider sharing some ideas you may have about:

• any aspect of your teaching that you feel has been particularly successful and rewarding for you and your students;

• any workshops that you may have attended, including the year and any particular information you consider significant (if you have a negative view of the workshop you attended, we will still post it, but we do require that you identify yourself, so that the director of that workshop can at least request more information from you and possibly make changes for the better).
  

• any of the lesson plans that you or your colleagues may have developed as outcomes of your attendance at a particular workshop;

• etc.

Just send a note to me at grareats@gmail.com, or to Mac Frazier at mfrazier@burke.k12.nc.us; we will not identify you unless you say it's OK, but you really should take credit for your idea or lesson plan or evaluation of a workshop or other experience you have had. We will add your post in one of the following formats:

• greatteacher@microwave.com (who declined to be identified further) provided us with this great idea..., or

• a colleague, who declined to be identified, provided us with this great idea...

Also, please pass this blog http://nehworkshops.blogspot.com/ on to any of your colleagues that might be willing to contribute to make us all better teachers.

Of course, we encourage any current or former workshop directors, or anyone else with an educational or philosophical point of view, to participate as well.

Thank you.