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Material Type: Paper; Class: INTRODUCTION TO TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION; Subject: Educational Technology; University: McNeese State University; Term: Fall 2008;
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Angela Thomas EDTC 100-V October 28, 2008 Philosophy of Education Life-long learning is vital to teaching in today’s schools. It ensures that as new methods and technologies emerge, our teachers keep up. It also allows the teachers to maintain the higher knowledge that was achieved before teaching began. As teachers go longer in their specific area of their subject, the higher levels learned previously are forgotten, and complete understanding of the theory behind what is being taught is lost, so the teachers begin to only remember what they are teaching. This makes it harder to explain fully questions that your students might have and creates a less comprehensive classroom. Life-long learning is continuing education throughout your career, not just stopping once you have your degree. Continuing education also aids in the teachers commitment to their students, because it allows them to not only teach, but also to be taught to. It brings them back into their students’ shoes, and gives a reality check to some teachers. Teachers that are not committed to their students do no good as teachers. We must care and alter our lessons to each class, so that it is received the best that it can be, if we just teach without caring then learning is not achieved and our job is not done. The teacher-student relationship must maintain professional but not cold. There has to be the ability to talk and confide so that there is a comfort for asking questions and giving answers. If that does not happen then students will not ask the questions they need to and will not understand enough to move on to the next level.
Reflecting on our teaching and lessons each day also helps improve teachers. Go back over how your lessons were received and the questions that were asked. This will help show what parts of the lesson were understood well and what might need to be gone over again the following class period. It also helps a teacher see what methods work well for their students, and which methods did not work as well as they might. Doing these things, and being a reflective practitioner will help teachers find the best way to teach for each class, and what is not quite understood yet, so that it can be reiterated. Technology in the classroom can either be helpful or a hindrance, depending on the subject and how it is used. In a high school math classroom there is not much opportunity to use technology beyond a calculator. At the same time there are ways to use technology to explain better then just words could. It is easier to demonstrate graphs on calculators because that way everything is exact and not the approximation that drawing on paper with pen or pencil gives you. A major problem is monetary resources in schools today, there is not always the money to afford to buy computers or graphing calculators for every student, and the students themselves can not always afford the calculators either. As the country grows more technologically there needs to be more money placed into schools so that the students can learn how to use that technology.