PD 2

For my second Professional development I am going to talk about ACTFL and Twitter. I joined ACTFL in the beginning of the semester when professor Guikema   introduced it to us with the packet. I find being a member of ACTFL helps me develop as a professional because I get a lot of up to date information on how to be a better foreign language teacher. A lot of their articles are very insightful. I will be a member of ACTFL for the rest of my professional career.  Most people do not like to pay for a subscription to anything so what is a free way to get updates on teaching methods and other insightful material on how to become a better teacher? The free alternative is Twitter, I found out that Twitter can be used as a professional development tool as well as being a member of ACTFL. I signed up and started following people that were in the foreign educational field and now every time I want to know what’s going on in the field I just refresh my twitter feed and find numerous amount of posts and articles on professional development, methods and strategies teachers are using all over the world. Twitter was the way I found out about many tools I have used in my own classroom, for example, Plickers. This is an application that allows you to formatively assess students and see how each student is doing and what you can do to help them. Professional development can be found everywhere; it is our job as teachers to look for them.