Since I began pursuing my teaching certificate in 2000, I knew ultimately I wanted to do professional development. I was fortunate that early in my career I had some really great professional development that kept me from giving up on education as a career. I loved teaching, and I loved my students, but I didn’t love a lot of the minutiae that is involved in a career in education. Good professional development provided me strategies and ideas to help me with the aspects of the job that I struggled with, and I credit those well-timed conferences and sessions with keeping me in the game.
As I continue to develop my career in education, I want to help other teachers deal with the stressors they face in the classroom. I feel strongly that technology can be a tool that helps give teachers time back in their hectic schedules to get back to the stuff that really matters: building relationships with students. In the era of personalized learning, teachers who utilize technology to get to know their students’ strengths and weaknesses will be the ones who build the strongest relationships because they will be the ones with the time to get to know their students as individuals. Technology that helps students learn through avenues that are engaging and responsive to the way they learn and technology that helps teachers assign, collect, and grade lessons will create learning environments where teachers and students are co-creators of learning. I want to be a vital part of that classroom.
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