I found some clarity in this morning's eLearning Coach blog. Connie Malamed outlines 10 destinations for your instructional design journey. This capsule titled "Finding Your Place in Instructional Design" helps me envision where my own learning might take me.
Within this summary, she embeds a link to an interesting book and author, Angela Connor. 18 Rules for Community Engagement especially caught my eye because the new teachers I'm coaching now are asking questions about engagement. They're also bemoaning the lack of self-motivation in some of the students they've taught this past year. Why aren't my students engaged when I've built this wonderful standards-based program of study for them? How to engage them to become successful has been an over-arching question. While Connor's book is specifically directed to people who manage online communities, I think the principles and pitfalls Connor discusses in her book apply to teachers trying to engage today's students and just about anyone attempting to build a thriving community. And right now I'd like to build such a reflective and collaborative community among the second-year teachers in our two-high school district.
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