Connected Educator: Chapter 2

Here I will be summarizing The Connected Educator by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, applying connection for my future career path. Throughout this chapter the author touches on a three-pronged approach to professional development. 

The first being, Local Community, this involves face-to-face interactions and connections between members of a work group. For instance, I want to go into the field of social media and marketing. PLC or professional learning community can come into play when we have work meetings, discussing the future of our company, different ideas we have, and talking about upcoming projects. This allows us to all be on the same page and have the same goal in mind. There will be leadership involved and different opinions for other colleagues to have some feedback. During our meetings we will encourage others to take risks and support each others actions to transform our company.

Second is, Global Network, which is more online based connections. This is individually chosen having a diverse collection of people and resources from all over the world. Furthermore this will give my company different viewpoints on things we may produce for different media outlets. It is good to get an understanding from all different cultures, seeing that any company would want to go worldwide. PLN or personal learning network, is a great way to branch out of the states and get an individualized virtual experience. This approach is self-directed for short and long term goals. While learning different digital tools and stimulating personal growth can lead to improved networking for the greater good of the company. 

Third we have, Bounded Community, contains people who are committed and have an overlapping interest recognizing the need for connections that go deeper than PLC and PLN. CoP also known as, community of practice or inquiry, entail people who have similar interests and goals. As a work team at my future company we will all share the common interest to collaborate and learn to do better. We will develop meaningful relationships with each other and be able to trust each other by sharing knowledge and content. As we will work together within our work space we will also collaborate with other groups who share common interests getting their opinions and insight to further grow as a company.