Today I had the great pleasure of being in the classroom. I have a great host teacher who I know I am bound to learn a lot of teaching skills from him!
Today was really exciting because my host teacher introduced the SMART Slate! His class room was the first ever in Parker school to use one. Basically it was a SMART Board but on a smaller scale, one that could fit right in your lap! This was such an exciting tool because all the children were so excited about it and could not wait to use it. Having the children be so excited was a great thing because now I knew the children were engaged in the lesson because they were learning about the math but then so excited to get to use the SMART Slate to show their answer up on the SMART Board.
This SMART Slate was also a great idea because it was another piece of technology the students were getting to learn about, which in return was making them more prepared for using this type of technology in the future.
As a future teaching I am constantly hearing about how it is so important to begin to teach through more technology and it is a great experience to see the children using technology in the classroom and also seeing how excited they get about it!
That sounds exciting! It's amazing how quickly we are advancing and how much technology is quickly being incorporated into the classroom settings! It truely is a great way for us to become more advanced, but also beneficial for the students :)
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