Every March I always ask myself if I really want to be a middle school teacher again next year. The buzz has worn off students are harder to impress and more difficult to motivate. All this feeds a nasty cycle of complaining and impatience for all of us. Heading to in-service this past Friday with John Landis from Millersville University could not have been more helpful. The last thing I expected was to be knocked off my seat with solid presentation. I know it sounds novel that a teacher presenting about teaching actually modeled the how and the what. But he did both in a winsome manner.
The world as we know it has changed. This kind of change only comes about every 400 years or so. John said that the internet capable cell phone is the greatest human invention, a true game changer. In the palm of your hand lies every known fact and every living person in the world. But our classrooms are still modeled after the industrial revolution. How can we adapt? Where do we start? How do we teach digital literacy to students who are more advanced then most teachers?
These questions and many others must be answered or I am afraid my teaching will be done in vain. Using the same tired methods achieving painfully inadequate results speaks to the landscape of education in churches and schools today. I am excited to bring paradigmatic change to both, are you?
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