Assimilating Technology In The Professional Development For Teachers

By Debra Scott


Teaching strategies are among the ethical practices that facilitate the learning of students in developing their capacity, productivity, and performance. When these strategies are incorporated with the current technology, then the education levels can take a positive shift with teaching levels above the standard. Below are some of the merits of integrating education in the professional development for teachers.

Teaching is eased, and understanding is improved. Now and then theoretical teaching is usually boring, and you are not even assured that your students understand all the concepts you are saying. Embracing techniques such as practical lessons, use of projectors to teach and clarify on various diagrams and points is important as it makes the students active and willing to know more. Computer lessons also enable them not only learn but also understand the different e-learning methods hence moving with the current changing times from ancient to modern.

You can easily keep track of the students progress. The traditional method is very hard and tiresome specially if the number of students is high. The technology switch special tools and applications on the computer that will keep track of all your students for you.

Educational technology is eco-friendly. A lot of trees and other plants are destroyed in the manufacture of books and textbooks not to say the fumes coming from the manufacturing factories. This causes direct harm to the environment as it is both deforestation and pollution. You can save the environment from this by issuing online tests where the answers are submitted through emails. E-readers are also very instrumental in reducing the amount of paperwork student use for their literature.

Despite the fact that the internet through various sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and may others have grossly occupied the modern generation to the extent of them being addicted, you can use this fact to your advantage in teaching as a tutor. Embracing things such as touch pads in e-learning ensures that the students remain focus and can concentrate in general.

The introduction of e-learning to the schools help those that cannot reach the school. With the new technology, it is not a must that you are in the class for you to have the lesson. You can have the class from the comfort of your couch at home. This is at times very useful to the kids who got injured and are admitted.

It makes information easily accessible. It reduces the time that you have to spend in the library looking for a piece of information that you could easily look for on the internet. With technology at your feet you could learn virtually anything at any time provided, you may access the internet. You can do sufficient research on the internet thus saving not only time but also the energy you would have wasted looking for various books in the library. It makes learning to be an effortless experience.

Technology eases coming together and also sharing of ideas too. Group discussion sometimes may not go on as all the members may desire as there are people who love dominating not to forget those arguing in high voices hence disadvantaging others. However, with the technology education system, various ideas can be shared and also accurately tabulated hence no margin for error but instead effective learning and understanding.




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