How does blogging help you to be a better teacher? is the title of my first blog post written on the British Council Teaching English website. In this post, I consider the following words in relation to blogging and teacher development:

• Reflection

• Metacognition

• Motivation

• Destination

• Connection

In the process, I also decided to re-write the question thus: How does blogging help you to BECOME a better teacher? A minor change but, to me, it better encapsulates and emphasises the on-going process of growth that teacher development involves. “Be” seems more stative and static, somehow…

To find out how I related the above list of words to blogging, please click here.

“Reflection” (Copyright: Me! Taken in 2002 or so…)