My Beliefs

I believe that technology is very important in the classroom today. In one of our classes today we talked about three things needed for a teacher to be a great teacher: curriculum competency, classroom management and tecnhology. I strongly believe that those are all important things, but especially technolgy in the world today. If students don't know how to use a computer, they cannot succeed. The fact that we are teaching children to be ready for jobs that have not even been created yet blows my mind. Our students have no idea what they are going to be doing when they "grow up". So therefore something like tracking, where a students potential is determined in school and they are only allowed to take certain classes is ridiculous. If they don't know what they are going to be doing when they grow up, how are we supposed to train them for those jobs. It is exciting to me to know that the future is unknown and we are going to find out with them!