Sharon's+Page

Mingalaba, Sa-wat-dee Kah, Hola, Bon Jour!

My name is Sharon Arnn Bryant. I am taking this course in order to explore communication technology through which my students and I and my colleagues can share ideas. I am so busy at work teaching and entering data and creating lessons that I find it difficult to make the time for professional conversations. If I find the time, the person I was hoping to talk to is inevitably busy. I hope this wiki course will open a portal into a multilogue with my friends and fellow teachers.

My professional goals focus on student learning. I seek to be more efficient with my teaching and at the same time, become better at engaging my students. This applies to my students at Crozet and to my students at Mary Baldwin College.

Besides working, I really do have another life. I live with 4 boys: my husband, Brad, my chocolate lab, Frankie, my black lab, Jai, and my blind cat, Bizou. Frankie and Jai enjoy eating and taking walks and sleeping. I do too, I suppose that's what makes us such good friends.

PLC Characteristics Shelby's Brain Starters: Shelby's questions are in black, my responses are in blue.

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 * How have your experiences within professional learning communities been different from what is described as a successful PLC?
 * Are there instances when the tone of an email or communication has impacted your feelings about a colleague or administrator? If so, in what ways? There have been many times that e-mail tone has impacted me positively or negatively. The funny thing is that email hangs out there in computer space indefinitely. I'm free to share it with others. I am surprised that some people seem to not be embarrassed by their rudeness.
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 * Do you have ideas that you would add to either resource that may help your team begin to develop a rubric or guidelines for your own PLC? E-mail has a sequence that confuses things at times. One person asks a question, another responds, the third person responds before reading the second. It can get messy. A wiki seems like a more organized way to invite comments and responses.