As with any good teacher, I consider myself to be a life long learner. To be the best I can be and to give my students the teacher they deserve, it is a part of my career to learn ahead of or with my students so that I can help facilitate and prepare them for their futures.
As a learner relating to technology in education, there are a few specific topics I want to stay on top of in order to achieve my best. The first is the idea of specifically integrating technology with mathematics, since that is the subject I teach. I found the website http://lpsl.coe.uga.edu/mile3/tim/index.html to help me with that, as well as all the other technology education blogs.
The second idea I want to continue to research and use is technology for assessment, both formal and informal. I really like the idea of testing each student when he or she is ready, not when a majority of the class is ready. Electronic testing would help me with this. I also absolutely LOVE the idea of formal assessments being graded for me on the spot. With ever-increasing class sizes, taking the time to grade paper and pencil tests over and over again is time consuming and often does not allow me to assess the data for remediation or enrichment as well as I would like. One particular electronic assessment I am going to fight for next school year is the Senteo Smart Response System. Two teachers have been using the two systems our school owns for the entire school year and I never could get a few days at a time to play with them before letting the students use them. I will amend that this summer.
The third topic of interest I would like to continue learning about is difficult to put in to words. I would like to present myself as a resource and instigator of change for the teachers at my school. I have really enjoyed mentoring and working with the two teachers at my school who are helping me with my practicum experience. I want to stay current in technology education and put forth more ideas to the school administration to truly begin integrating technology into every classroom in my school.
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