Why do you blog?

After retiring as a full-time Educator in January 2012, I had the chance to sit back, reflect and learn. There was also within my heart a desire to share with others – especially those who are in preservice training or at the very beginning of their teaching careers – some thoughts and ideas that they might find helpful.

At the beginning of my teaching career – and that was back when education was a lot simpler than it is now in terms of expectations and demands placed on teachers – I was helped in my learning by several educators who were far more experienced than me.

That help came to me in face-to-face conversation, through the telephone, and by letter or correspondence. To say that I was appreciative would be an understatement for in those days of inspection and careful study of newbies by inspectors and superintendents, it was easy to fall foul of expectations.

As I came to the other end of my professional life, the end rather than the beginning, an ambition was born within me and the determination that I hax been helped by senior colleagues and those who had gone before.

It was for this reason that I established my blog with WordPress in 2013, calling it “Education A Life Force“.

In the years since, I have used my blog primarily for educative purposes and through my LinkedIn account have both shared posts on my blog and invited others to my blog by sharing its address. The feedback I get suggests that what I am doing has been appreciated.

I also have a blog for more general purposes not related specifically to education.

There are other things I have done to spread messages, but my blog has been a prime source of helping me to help those in the same way as I was supported by others.

And by the way, I really appreciate WordPress and its management.