The first post she wrote is called Reflections on my first year as an elective teacher. She was getting exhausted teaching elementary school so she switched and became an elective teacher. The main difference between the two was she got really attached to the students she had all year long where she seen 300 students every 2 days being an elective teacher. Even as an elective teacher though she still had a big impact on the students and they looked up to her. I think it is good to switch jobs after a few years that way you are not always doing the same thing year after year. It sounds like Mrs. Goerend is a great teacher if so many kids look up to her.
The second post she wrote is called Thoughts on Wikipedia. Her insight on Wikipedia was to let her students research it. She says it may be your best source of information. Yes Wikipedia is a site with information that changes but usually that is with updated information. Wikipedia is a sight that has other resources in its footnotes section so you can see where the information comes from. I wish when I was in school we could have used Wikipedia as long as we could have provided other sources as well to prove that it is right. I'm glad that some teachers are open to it though like Mrs. Goerend.
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