Teacher empowerment is the key element to integration. Motivate through awareness and access to information. Dr. Henry Marockie, Former Superintendent of West Virginia Schools shares his Formula For Success strategies in this feature of Tech Showcase 1. We have learned that because technology changes so rapidly it is necessary to constantly review new products and incorporate those elements that will assist us in meeting our goals. Rather then decry the obsolescence of technology purchased only yesterday, it is more important to use the rapidity of change to motivate and encourage students to become life long learners.
Students take to computers like ducks take to water.
It would be easy to dismiss the interests of students in technology as being related to games and escapism, but we have a responsibility to identify the essential elements of technology that will be critical to their earning a livelihood, participating as responsible citizens, and achieving their full potential. These are the individuals who will join us as fellow community members in a very few number of years. Through the process of re-teaching students the knowledge and skills not immediately mastered, teachers at every level establish an important relationship with students. Recognize that further change is necessary, but it is a process. Change is a universal constant.