Teacher's Guide to the Cew Use of Technology in the Classroom

You, as an untrained teacher should start with simple technology slowly. Keep away from the "complicated education" is the latest technology.

A teacher must be flexible and gain experience in all forms of technology to add data of interest and real life and the effectiveness of their teaching.

Some teachers make the mistake of believing that technology replaces chalk / humble whiteboard. As you start your career, use only one form of technology at a time, beyond chalk or whiteboards. Practice in advance. Here is a set of guidelines to consider before using any form of technology in the classroom.

1. Always test your equipment / technology first to make sure it works.


2. Technology does not teach. It simply helps the teaching / learning process.

3. Make sure that all students gain equal access to all the technology you use.

4. If you use technology as a means in their assessment, the success in the task is not dependent on the knowledge of students in the use of technology.

5. Before using any technology within the framework of its assessment mission, ensure that all students have practiced and perfected the technology skills they need to succeed in the job, because they know that the work of the appropriate learning.

6. Develop an experiment in the use of all technologies available in your class. This will give you the opportunity to use a wider variety of teaching / teachers.

7. Always plan a backup strategy if the technology fails, ie that parts of appliances or alternative teaching strategy.

8. Each time you ask the competent students with technology skills, use them to help you as demonstrators or as mentors for their peers.

9. When you want to acquire new technologies, be sure to investigate the real cost, including "behind the scenes" costs, such as maintenance, as well as benefits for their students. Ask yourself this question: "Is it offer better academic results than other currently available strategies and old technology" before spending money?.

One last point:

Remember the technology can not make your school for you. Ultimately, technology, even with a powerful interactive computer software is now available, will have its entry somewhere for it to be truly effective for students.