Teaching has Changed

Over the years I realized teaching has changed. Back in the day teaching was all pen and paperwork, and textbooks and notebooks. Now it's all this new technology. Fine, I understand that it is easier to grade, make tests, lesson plans, and communicate with other staff and parents by computer; but teaching too.

This is absolutely amazing what can be done to improve the interest amongst our students. They are already bombarded by all these multimedia forms of information. If we as teachers prepare classwork for them in the format they have become accustomed to, then we might be able to reach more students and get the curriculum information out to them.

When I taught elementary school at 19 years old, I had to make my own charts, my own manipulatives, use the chalkboard, and mostly only textbooks; now why not make a powerpoint presentation, send them to get the information online, give them an interactive quiz that was designed to meet their needs, tell the lesson in the form of a digital story. A whole hosts of ways are out there to help teachers.

Wow! When would teachers stop learning? Can we? I guess, never. For as long as we stay in this profession we would have to keep up with the times. I had my daughter tell me, "you have to make your comments interesting, and interactive, get into it (she's a tech guru", well I hope I did.