Within each course in both the Educational Specialist program and the doctoral program, I have gathered stories, designs and blueprints for instructional purposes and with them, the reflection time to piece together what is happening in the profession of education today, especially with the third year of the laptop initiative at the high school where I teach. With the new horizon created with the tools of technology, many new experiences evolved, some experiences planned; most technology experiences unplanned yet worthy of the time and effort. Teachers are visionary architects, in a sense, when they combine educational planning with technology. Along with the teaching practices, the design elements coincide, and the technology provides a collaborative community for future endeavors, with faculty, with students, with parents and with administration all taking active roles.
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. Maya Angelou Theater Resume
Follow Your Bliss To step aside from aggressive responses to problem-solving requires using some little-used skills: humility, curiosity, and a willingness to listen. Humility is a brave act–we have to admit that we don’t enough to solve the problem, that our approaches aren’t working and never will. Even our own treasured answers are insufficient–if everyone bowed to our demands and did what we asked, the problem still would not be solved. We need more information, more insight. This kind of humility is rare in competitive, embattled organizations and communities, but it is the door we must walk through to find the place of true solutions. One wise educator put it this way: "Humility is admitting that I don’t know the whole story. Compassion is recognizing that you don’t know it either.” Margaret Wheatley