Thoughts about New Teachers

Recently I have had the honor of supervising teacher candidates (student teachers) for Grand Canyon University. Being in the classroom again, even briefly, floods my mind with memories of the most difficult and challenging job there is.....teaching kids!

As I provided resources for these new teachers and collaborated on their evaluations, I realized anew the enormous responsibity that a teacher has. EVERY student must be valued the same and formative assessments must show progress for each child. I am privileged to assist these new teachers and rise up to my responsibility to inspire and motivate them to work with young people and administrators and other teachers on a daily basis.

Touch Screen Natives

It occurred to me that the Digital Natives generation is now replaced by the "Touch Screen" Generation. I witnessed a two year old using a touch screen - making the screen graphics bigger, then smaller.  This generation will grow up not having to right click and find the "zoom" to increase or decrease percentage size.  The Touch Screen Generation will not have a need for cameras - photos taken by their hand held devices will get better and better quality.  Email may even become a thing of the past as short 140 character posts in Twitter will replace long text.  Library books?  Who knows - for awhile parents will read traditional books to their kids, but in the long term, the touch screen on the e-reader will take over.