I graduated from the professional learning program from UBC in year 2000. It was a great feeling to be entering into a new profession at the beginning of a new millennium-opportunity was just at my doorstep and I was filled with hope. I started teaching right away in a full time position at the high school where I had completed my practicum. I thought I had made it.
Then the reality of prepping, marking, teaching in several different classrooms, dealing with students and their parents hit me. It was a struggle to keep afloat, yet I still had time to keep up with current trends in technology. At the time, the internet was just becoming into use and I remember showing my students how to get Hotmail email accounts as one of my lessons. Oh, how times and technology has changed.
I taught at the high school level for a short time before I moved to middle school. At my new school, the teaching philosophy and access to technology was drastically different than what was at a high school. Shortly after my start at middle school, I started having my family. Between all the demands (mentally and emotionally) of working at an inner city school and the energy and patience it takes to raise little people, I did not have the time to keep up with what going on in the world of technology. I kept current just enough to keep some technology in my lessons but didn’t have the time to try anything innovative.
Then the reality of prepping, marking, teaching in several different classrooms, dealing with students and their parents hit me. It was a struggle to keep afloat, yet I still had time to keep up with current trends in technology. At the time, the internet was just becoming into use and I remember showing my students how to get Hotmail email accounts as one of my lessons. Oh, how times and technology has changed.
I taught at the high school level for a short time before I moved to middle school. At my new school, the teaching philosophy and access to technology was drastically different than what was at a high school. Shortly after my start at middle school, I started having my family. Between all the demands (mentally and emotionally) of working at an inner city school and the energy and patience it takes to raise little people, I did not have the time to keep up with what going on in the world of technology. I kept current just enough to keep some technology in my lessons but didn’t have the time to try anything innovative.