Do Your Teachers Need a Personal Trainer?
This article discusses technology in the classroom and teachers who might need help getting up to date on using them as educational resources. As technology progresses, educators who are not actively taking technology classes or making a habit of technology are less likely to be utilize technology in their classrooms. The author describes a program in which college students visited a public school and worked with the teachers there over a period of time to teach them and help them implement technology into their lesson plans.
Why would students be interested in this type of program?
Working in a classroom, with students, or with teachers can be valuable experience for any students, regardless of whether they want to go into teaching or not. Even for the tech students who were not necessarily in a credential program, they were networking and working on their social skills.
Why would schools be interested in this type of program?
Technology is constantly evolving and there is so much of it that it is unlikely that schools would be able to keep their educators up to date with every in class resource available. For this reason, bringing in a student who is still learning about these different resources and is more than likely going to be familiar with different resources than the educator helps both the students at the school and the educator learn new techniques and skills that they can continue to implement long after the "personal trainer" has left.
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