PDQ (Professional Development QuickTips)
How Adults accept Change
Category:
Adult Learners
Tip:
Not every teacher is as excited about technology and its use with students as you are. I know, it's hard to believe, but you might want to be aware of why some teachers are resistant to using technology. Think about teachers in one or more of the following stages before asking all of them to integrate technology in their curriculum:
- Awareness: may know or not know about the technology, but is not ready to use even if they had access to it.
- Informational: is aware of the technology, wants to learn more, and may ask lots of questions before jumping in.
- Personal: uses technology for personal use.
- Management: uses technology regularly but has trouble finding and organizing files, folders, and programs.
- Consequence: looking for ways that technology will impact student learning.
- Collaboration: interested in using technology as a collaborative tool with students and other teachers.
- Refocusing: willing to share and teach how to use technology with students.
The first three stages are teachers who need to see the value of technology just for themselves before they take the next step and use it with their students.
Submitted by:
Barbara Bray
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Helping Teachers Organize
PDQ Coordinator: Barbara Bray, President, My eCoach
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