Goals

For my first year of teaching I would love to accomplish all of these goals: 


1. Apply some sort of technology to the students every day school experience, whether it be posting on a social network, checking person emails for homework assignments, or in class activities. 
2. Use technology based resources to collect and analyze date, interpret student work and results, communicate with my students, and maximize students learning with technology. 
3. Demonstrate continual growth in technology knowledge and skills to stay up to date with current and emerging technologies. 
4. Get to know my students on a personal level, never have a high affective filter in my classroom, and make students enjoy the subject at hand. 
5. Learn from my teaching mistakes. As a first year teacher I am most certain that I will mess up, but I would love to take notes from my teachings and finding and learn something new each day. 
6. Design developmentally appropriate learning opportunities through every which way that I possibly can. Whether it be technology-enhanced instructional strategies, or games to excite learning.

Interest Survey

The Future of Classrooms

When you google the words 'future classrooms' mostly all of the pictures that come up in the search have computers in them. Technology is going to play huge factor in the future of our classrooms. The first factor that is going to most likely change is that textbooks will be history. I really do think that ebooks/ereaders will become more and more popular in educating all students from k-12. As an educator I will definitely try and push for no more textbooks. I hope that the future of classrooms will provide each student with some sort of tablet such as a Kindle or iPad. Now obviously these are expensive devices that are probably not the best choice for young students to be responsible with, but it can be a chance for them to learn how to be responsible. Parents can sign a contract with the school to replace the tablet if their child were to lose it and teachers can require students to purchase a good case for the tablet for their school supplies instead of buying book covers and other supplies. I do think that there will be a even ratio between the number of students in the classroom and the number of computers available in the classroom. Children's activity patterns will be supported with the proper technologies to work, experiment, explore, play, and learn. Our future educators will be properly educated to meet the technological needs of their students. Todays teachers are not very educated when it comes to working with technology. I have seen a lot of teachers struggle when it comes to working with computers. Technology is becoming a visible part of children’s lives.  From classroom settings to home use, computers are now a part of how children learn, play, and communicate. Computers are an important part of children’s lives, even those young enough to attend pre-school.