Getting Started

I have been an elementary school teacher for 16 years.   Most of my experience is centered in grades 3 through 6, with 6th being my favorite.  I started teaching in the Peace Corps and then in a elementary public school in Brooklyn, New York City. public schools.  I did enjoy those experience but was keen to go back aboard.  In 2002, I got a job in an international school in Jakarta, Indonesia.  That was 13 years ago.  Since then I have taught in international schools in Nigeria and now Kenya.

I have always integrated technology in my classroom practice so I have always considered myself a technology teacher.  For the past 4 years, I have been the technology teacher at my school.

I was hesitant to apply for this job when it first opened up because I thought I would have been bored teaching the same thing all the time.  As an elementary school teacher, I have always enjoyed the transitions between the subjects.  I love teaching conducting a reading workshop, then do a math game to reinforce division fact and then doing a science lesson in a given day.

But being the tech teacher is even more varied!  One period I am helping to teach 4th graders to do online research.  The next period, I am teaching Kindergarten how to draw a picture using one of the apps on the iPad.  And the next period, I am doing coding with a 3rd grade class.

I love my job.

I love it so much that I have decided to start an blog.  I have always read other teachers' blogs, getting wonderful ideas from them and commented when I felt the need.  I did not always feel that I had ideas to share but I feel ready to start my own.

So here I go.