Last week I shared the Technology Resources for Tahoma Elementary Teachers website which is full of links for finding tools, ideas, and resources to help you integrate technology into your lessons. While teaching any lesson, we have strategies we implement which allow our lessons to run smoothly. This week I would like to to help teachers understand what strategies will be highly effective when teaching tech skills to students in the lab and/or in their classroom. The Best Practices for Teaching Technology Skills document contains many of the strategies you already implement in your lessons such as labeling the learning, modeling, reinforcing the learning, and classroom management strategies. But there are additional strategies which will help you as you teach tech skills to your students. Once these strategies are in place, you will find that your lessons are more efficient and effective.(This document will be added to SharePoint under Elementary Curriculum, Technology.)
For this weeks post, read the Best Practices document and comment on the 5 practices you feel are the most important in your grade level and why. Then share with us 2-3 practices you don't currently implement but plan to implement in the future. (Remember, if you would like clock hours please click on the FAQ tab at the top of the page for further information.)
