Being a Computer Teacher is a lonely business. Like the lone PC in a Mac lab... I'm curious how you-all do your job. What do you teach to students and when? Do you have books you follow or create your own lesson plans? Do you follow state standards, National Tech standards or NCLB? Students--let me know what you like about computer classes. If my colleagues are anything like me, we'd like to know what you find important (as different from what your parents tell us is important).
School starts tomorrow. I ask lots of my colleagues, Why are you teaching here? Too often, it's because they can't get a job in the public schools. I'm not sure my army of one is enough to turn that tide.
posted by Jacqui Murray--Writer-Teacher @ 7:23 PM
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Being a Computer Teacher is a lonely business. Like the lone PC in a Mac lab... I'm curious how you-all do your job. What do you teach to students and when? Do you have books you follow or create your own lesson plans? Do you follow state standards, National Tech standards or NCLB? Students--let me know what you like about computer classes. If my colleagues are anything like me, we'd like to know what you find important (as different from what your parents tell us is important).
Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, Amazon Vine Voice, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. She is also the author of the popular prehistoric fiction saga, Man vs. Nature which explores seminal events in man’s evolution one trilogy at a time; the author of the Rowe-Delamagente thrillers and Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy. Look for her next prehistoric fiction, Savage Land Winter 2024.
