Your practice as a teacher is driven by beliefs.
Published on Aug 18, 2016
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Your practice as a teacher is driven by beliefs.
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Your beliefs have been constructed over your history.
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ICT integration has been disappointingly patchy in many schools.
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They have been constructed over their history.
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Some may never have been exposed to it in the classroom.
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Some of you may never experience this.
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In your University courses you may or may not experience exemplary learning with ICT
Academics are not immune to challenging their own beliefs about ICT in the classroom.
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The lack of personal experience of ICT in the classroom may have led to a belief that it is not relevant in your classroom.
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Your personal experience with ICT in the classroom may have led to a belief that it is highly relevant in YOUR classroom.
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Beliefs emerge from emotional engagement in events (such as this unit and its materials)
So why should you examine your own beliefs?
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The research is clear – ICT in the classroom has the potential to transform what is learned, and how it is learned.
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But this transformation is dependent on the teacher’s pedagogy
And your pedagogy is dependent on your beliefs.
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As a professional, you want to develop the best pedagogy for learning.
You will constantly interrogate your own beliefs and reconsider them if they do not support the best pedagogy
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The reasons given for a lack of engagement in previous course evaluations include:
"I am not interested in ICT"
"I do not see this stuff happening in schools"
"It is too hard"
"I just want to pass this course and start teaching"
What are your personal beliefs about:
a) transformational pedagogy
b) your professionalism and role in the classroom
c) the role of ICT to achieve this?
Along your learning journey you have collected much knowledge that is always useful.
KEEP IT and VALUE IT
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But always remain open throughout your career to new influences and ideas so that you keep abreast with change.
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