Ever since I was in the third grade I wanted to be a teacher. Mr. Swanson, put that spark in me--he had us mentoring the first graders. It was the best! What I never realized at that age or in high school, or in college even--was how I would always be taking classes and learning to stay on top of my profession. I think I need to go back to all my teachers that inspired me and tell them how much I appreciate all of the hard work they put in. With that said, I start my National Certification on January 3rd--the packet is being mailed to me. I have a mentor for this, and I am in a group of five teachers who have also applied.
At our weekly staff meeting, our principal announced to all the other teachers that three teachers will be training our staff after the holiday's on some of the technology we are using in our rooms. I am one of the teachers--this was the first I had heard of it. My principal knew I would be ok with it. So I talked with the other two teachers who will be giving the training and we decided to start a blog between teachers in our district. Also we are going to make technology notebooks for everyone.
In the classroom, I am meeting myself coming and going. I have so many things I want to do, and so little time. I have to become better at managing time. I have been working hard towards my goal of facilitating and inspiring student learning and creativity. I have many on-line collaboration projects going on. My 7th graders just finished photo stories and my 8th graders are working on wiki's. I have also applied for a couple grants, to buy some more technology for my room. The principal did tell me, that she ordered me a classroom set of headphones with mic., I only had four of them before.
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Tammy,
ReplyDeleteI think it is great that you are so positive about your profession and that you take your own education as seriously as your students do. I bet your positive attitude reflects in your lessons and that your students are enjoying their course work. Educators should always be prepared to learn and educate themselves and it is great that you are being so proactive about your own development.
It is great that your school/ is learning new technology and that you are part of the process. Do the teachers at your school have a positive attitude about the idea?
That is one of my goals and it seems like your school is adapting effortlessly.
It sounds like you have supportive principal and that they are interested in enhancing technology at your school. Your class seems like it is using technology a lot.
I am hoping to become nationally certified in the next year or so. I wish you luck with your national certification and hope you enjoy the procedure.
Mary
Hi Mary,
ReplyDeleteThanks-- I am hoping all the teachers in my school are ok with the technology. Myself and one other teacher uses the k12lessonplans.com website and the students love it. So this is one of the items that the principal is enforcing that all teachers use this site--as a means to communicate more with students and parents. I think a couple of the teachers are not very happy about it. Most of them are ok with it and want to learn more. I talked with the English teacher today about eportfolio's and getting on board. She seemed excited! My principal is excited about all the technology and is really pushing the staff to do more with it. This is kind of funny, since technology is not her thing. That is exciting that you are planning on becoming nationally certified as well. We are life long learners!
What a great opportunity that you will be trained by these technology specialists. Running up blogs is a great way of sharing your experiences. Please let us know the URLs. What kind of concept as will you be focusing on in these sessions? Will there be any kind of session on iPads?
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