School has let out and the first week or two of luxurious enjoyment with no classes to teach have gradually faded into boredom and... what is that?- a need to be a teacher.
The same way that we dread our students going away for the summer, losing a good third of the knowledge we worked so hard to help them gain over the school year, we should dread our own lethargy over the summer break. After all, how much work did you put into teaching yourself new strategies to implement in your classroom? How much of it might you lose through the months of letting the practice be replaced by the mundane?
OK so maybe I'm making it more dramatic than it seems - but I've long since hit the boredom and need to be a teacher. So, in answer to my melodrama, I'm compiling a three-lesson "summer school" for teachers. We're going to start with the WebQuest and go on to... who knows yet? We'll see when I get there ;-)
In this lesson, we're going to learn what it takes to create a Teacher's Technology Kit. If you start from the beginning and actually do what you read as you read it , you'll have a complete and ready-to-use kit by the time you're done reading. You can view it as a "First Aid Kit" for teachers, if you like - it will contain everything that you need to get off on the right foot and keep it moving smoothly through another year.
About The Teacher's Technology Kit
Every year, we encounter new problems with new solutions - and we have to search for the solution. We're faced with the need to create notes to parents, update our syllabus, write lesson plans... and after a while, it starts to feel like we're spending more time searching for things than teaching.
When an emergency happens, and a child has a cut, where's the first place we turn? The first aid kit, of course. In the same way, we can create a first aid kit for us as teachers, a place where we can immediately turn in order to do everything we are faced with and for it to be as easy as pulling out a band-aid.
To this end, we'll be compiling a series of templates that cover everything from syllabus creation to presentations at open house. We'll create a checklist of needs and end up with a virtual directory of products for every possibility.
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