Twitter Evolving Into Professional-Development Tool
Gerald Aungst, the supervisor of gifted education in the Cheltenham school district in Pennsylvania, recently used Twitter to seek advice about online teaching programs for foreign languages. Within five minutes of sending out a request for information, he had received several suggestions from around the country.
Every Monday at 7 p.m., Meenoo Rami, a high school English teacher at the 700-student Franklin Learning Center, a public high school in Philadelphia, moderates a chat on Twitter that draws participants from around the country to discuss topics such as adolescent literacy and banning book reports.
When Kevin Jarrett, a computer teacher at the Northfield Community School, a pre-K-8 school serving 1,100 students in Atlantic County, N.J., wanted to teach his kindergarten pupils about farms, he sent out a request on Twitter and soon connected with two farmers who answered his...
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