NETS in the classroom...you BETS!

Teachers must model creative and innovative thinking. We are an example for our students, if we don't embrace it, why would they? As teachers, it is up to us to keep changing and growing yet that is hard to do when the school you are teaching in does not as well. There needs to be a continual self-renewal of the teaching profession which has the school behind it 100%. This means training, seminars, more technology available, everything we need to compete in the 21st century. I have a friend who is a teacher. When I told her of the emphasis put on technology in all my classes, she told me not to worry about it, that no one had time to really use it anyway. The sad part is that she is a fantastic teacher, she just doesn't have any support from her school to do anything differently. Schools and communities need to realize that we are innovative professionals preparing our students for a global and digital society, we all need to get on the same page.