Instructional Technology Specialist

I was asked to help a student teacher integrate technology through clickers.  I made a copy of the directions for her ahead of our meeting and gave them to her to review.  When we met she was still quite disjointed as to what needed to be done.  As we discussed how she wanted to set up her lesson and what was the purpose of her lesson she began to realize what she needed to do to prepare for the lesson.  She will be using clickers for an end of chapter test.  She did not have the test ready to be synced with clickers.  We scheduled another planning session to put the test questions into the clicker software.  I will also help her when she implements her clicker lesson.

The moral of this story is that sometimes teachers need to plan how to plan. I need to remember that when I am offering support.  People don’t always know what they need to know and that is okay.  It is my job to find out what they know, what they need to know, what they want to know, and support them in gaining that knowledge.  It was a good experience for me.