Education has been changing during the last two decades. When I was 25, I got my Ph.D. in education.

Image #2: Elementary classroom in Old Dental Building, The University of Iowa, 1919
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Image #3: Anglo American School of Moscow , Elementary Classroom, Elementary School, Anglo American School of Moscow 2017
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Back then, I had been working in a team of Russian educators on developing books for the teaching (a teacher book, a student book, a practice book) and assessing (assessment tasks and portfolio) to build and evaluate the communicative competence in World Language.

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The WL standards did not change tremendously but the approach of teaching and getting knowledge had been shifted from the only resource (books and teachers as being the only way to get information) to the multiple resources (learning through inquiring, asking questions, experimenting, finding answers by yourself, making mistakes, using internet and technology along the way).
My First Step as a Researcher
I got the classical education, and I know how to write an article, research paper, or a speech. I have never learned how to write a blog. So, I searched!
These are the main steps for beginner, I assume:
Step 1: Plan your blog post by choosing a topic, creating an outline, conducting research, and checking facts.
Step 2: Craft a headline that is both informative and will capture readers’ attention.
Step 3: Write your post, either writing a draft in a single session or gradually word on parts of it.
Step 4: Use images to enhance your post, improve its flow, add humor, and explain complex topics.
Step 5: Edit your blog post. Make sure to avoid repetition, read your post aloud to check its flow, have someone else read it and provide feedback, keep sentences and paragraphs short, don’t be a perfectionist, don’t be afraid to cut out text or adapt your writing last minute.
Do you have specific advice to add? Please help me!
My Second Step as a Researcher
As a Russian language teacher, I have started to think about genres of participation in the Russian Network. When we are planning topics for our students, we try to imagine what language they might need for everyday life and what questions or problems they would like or need to discuss and solve. Lately, I found that some topics (in the restaurant/ cooking/ describing people and places) are not so interested in the students. Of course, it is the basics when you are learning a new language, but for more advanced students, it would be more beneficial to learn how to do research and how to interact (hanging out) in Network in Russian.
Teenage Education
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Pobeda-Aksay
I am working in an English-speaking environment, and all my PLN is connected with it. I have learned a lot, but reading the resources for this week, I have started to think about searching or creating PLN for teachers who teach Russian as a foreign language. We are the WL teachers, and we are responsible for helping our students to process and understand messages online. So far I found FluentU and Learn Russian Online from Top 10 Russian Language Blogs