Teaching Interests and Instructional Topics

I never thought that I would be one of those teachers that didn't want to bother learning the "new way" because I have always loved being challenged by new ideas. Now that I have nine years of teaching experience behind me, I am realizing that "stepping out of the box" is very uncomfortable for me because things take me longer to learn, my patience runs out faster, and am easily frustrated when the next step to take isn't clear.

My current use of technology consists of an PowerPoint overhead projector in the classroom, pedometers and heart rate monitors with my physical education classes. When it comes to communicating with my students and parents outside of class time, I currently use email and our district website. I enjoyed setting up my website through the district but feel it is very lame because I didn't find the time throughout the year to update or improve it or don't have the knowledge, yet, to make it better.

I guess you can say that this old dogs is ready to learn some "new tricks." I am interested in learning new ways to make the health and personal wellness curriculum I teach more engaging and meaningful as well as excited about creating resources for my district website to help enhance learning outside of the classroom and to help our objectives become more meaningful to my students.

We will see... :)