Pondering 'Share'

It struck me this week that share seems to be the theme of the moment, has anyone else notice this?

For example, my french methods class has set up Dropbox for sharing lessons, rubrics, language learning games and assignment instructions so that we will all have access to these resources even after we graduate next year. I am certain that I will be grateful to have access even after our class is done. Are the other methods classes doing similar things in their classes?

I had an opportunity to reacquaint myself with my art appreciation side when I attended a Take 22 presentation given by Curt Shoultz. The presentation was based on chapter 11 of the book CREATING THINKING CLASSROOMS: Leading Educational Change for a 21st Century World By Garfield Gini-Newman and Roland Case. 
It is Shoultz' strong belief that sharing is the most important component of teaching. The Take 22 format of sharing with others in the education field his own professional development is a good example of his belief. He shared with us three great takeaways: his presentation/summary of chapter 11 of the textbook, a graphic organizer that he created for self-assessing artwork in an art class, and a Checklist for Creating Assessment-Rich Learning. Wow!

The presentation by John Evans on the Maple Forem also placed a heavy emphasis on sharing for teachers. The Maple Website is designed to provide a network for teachers and other educational professionals. The new ELA curriculum is being introduced on this site so I will definitely be looking at it on a regular basis. I also remember a while back reading about how Millenials are defining the sharing economy similar to this article https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/275802 and so it is not surprising that the sharing of teaching resources stretches across cities, provinces, countries and the globe as Mr. Evans suggests. 

In my last placement, I had an excellent CT that shared with me any resources I asked for, most of the items were within reach on her shelves. I made some copies of curriculum material that I needed to prepare the few lessons that I was responsible for creating on my own, and any questions I had were answered. I remember thinking that if I ask I shall receive but being so new to the complete francophone teaching environment I did not really know what to ask for. For instance, I did not know about an online software that is useful in checking french grammar on documents, BonPatron.com. For English grammar, Grammarly.com has been working very well for me in all the platforms I now use. Now with my basic knowledge of resources that are useful I have already started to compile a shareable document on GoogleDocs. 

The final word is this - Teaching without sharing is like reading Shakespeare alone in silence, "Shakespeare is meant to be viewed and heard" as Cameron Tataryn said just this past week. 

The Globe Theatre, London, UK
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