Throughout my teacher training program and various professional development opportunities, I have written and rewritten my philosophy of education multiple times. It usually resulted in a number of pages of educational jargon with examples of how I have demonstrated these beliefs in practice. In preparation for the Cohort 21 final meeting I noticed that we needed to include our philosophy but we were only about to use 140 characters or the length of a tweet.<\/p>\n
At first I thought I would be able to hammer something out pretty quickly, but after thinking about it for a little while I realized it was going to be trickier than I first thought. There are so many things that I believe are important to my philosophy. After a suggestion to check out #6word – an approach to creating memoirs<\/a> I still was a little stumped as to how I was going to get my philosophy into one tweet.<\/p>\n A few years ago after hearing Stephen Covey speak at the ISTE conference, I wrote my own personal mission statement<\/a> that is included on my Twitter profile ~ Love Life Learning. I thought that this might be a good place to start, as it is something that I try and life by and share with my students. Next, I opened a recent copy of my philosophy of education that I spent some time editing and revising last summer and started a list of powerful words that I felt needed to be included from the document.<\/p>\n With a cue card full of words related to my philosophy, I tried to look for words with similar meanings to chop it down further. I was left with inspire, love learning, authentic experiences, questioning, and world.<\/p>\n What do these words mean together? What do they mean in relation to my philosophy of education? As much as this task seemed very basic – it is just making a tweet, it was an excellent exercise in really synthesizing what your philosophy is.<\/p>\n I guess a Tweet is the new elevator speech!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Throughout my teacher training program and various professional development opportunities, I have written and rewritten my philosophy of education multiple times. It usually resulted in a number of pages of educational jargon with examples of how I have demonstrated these beliefs in practice. In preparation for the Cohort 21 final meeting I noticed that we … Continue reading “Philosophy of Education: 140 characters”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actionplan","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/marcielewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/marcielewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/marcielewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/marcielewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/marcielewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/marcielewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/marcielewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/marcielewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/marcielewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAfter a few different sentences, I was left with “Inspiring students to love learning through authentic experiences tuning them into the world around them, and encouraging them want to know why.”<\/p>\n