Continuing Education Essay

As a perspective teacher I have a long ways to go in both knowledge and experience in creating lessons and curriculum. As I continue to add the tools necessary it’s important for me to realize some of the most important resources available to me are my fellow teachers. Their prior experience and years of continuing education truly is invaluable. It is my hope that my youth and fresh perspectives can aide these teachers when we collaborate. The encouragement of teacher collaboration is important in creating higher levels of instruction. This is very exciting for me personally moving forward. Norman Webb’s Depth of Knowledge calls for teachers to raise the bar by collaborating. It also requires us to challenge our students to do know more

Students will be able to work together by using technology to brainstorm, collect information, communicate findings and create a product that’s more fully developed and well rounded. The use of SAMR will not only help students collaborate more efficiently it will also aid them in creating products that were once not possible. Students can use and create new technology that not only show’s their level of understanding in a new way they can use that technology to be truly imaginative and inventive. In the not so distant past teachers and students would have gone without the use of technology in their classroom. Today it is imperative to both teacher and student that technology be used as a means to create engaging curriculum. Students will no longer only use a simple word program to type a paper. In an imaginative classroom they will modifying and redefining the uses of technology. The use of technology will be used as tool for the most expressive and creative generation the world has ever