Top Tips: Advancing Your Professional Development as a Teacher Candidate #TeachAgChat

What a great discussion we had on 3/24 about advancing preservice teachers through professional development opportunities!

We absolutely LOVED hosting the #TeachAgChat and hope to participate and even host again in the future! With that in mind, there were several things that we learned by hosting this chat that we hope you can find useful as you host yours.

• We asked specific preservice teachers to participate in the chat and they confirmed, however, they did not participate. We aren’t sure if they forgot or just didn’t know how to respond, even though we sent them the questions well in advance. We thought that maybe next time we would have more back-up questions to help facilitate the discussion and make our participants feel more comfortable.
• Make sure to use a website like Hootsuite or TweetChat to follow the conversation. It makes the whole chat a lot more organized and helps you to keep track of who you have responded to.
• Pay close attention to the responses. The #TeachAgChat is a great learning tool for everyone involved. Make sure to have a follow-up plan for what you will do with the information you receive from the chat.

Overall, we count this #TeachAgChat as a success and look forward to using the information we received to help develop our programming. See you on the next chat! #agedu