Fracturing Teacher Trust with Forked-Tongue Politics
"Speaking with forked tongue" and "talking out of both sides of the mouth" is standard fare from politicians. So are promises to teachers for additional money and job support. And, what politicians give, they can take away.
Techie folks would like to advocate for Technology Integration in our schools because they believe that technology holds wonderful potential and promise for our students.
Total Physical Response: Building "Verbal-Physical" Connections that take Hands-On Learning to a New Level
Total Physical Response (TPR) is a strategy that was "borrowed" from Speech Therapy, Special Education and Foreign Language Instruction. These folks use the technique on "harder-to-teach-than-ordinary" student populations because the technique is effective.
TeacherTube™ provides student-safe instruction videos. Better yet, most school district content filters recognize TeacherTube™ as a safe Internet destination.
Principals and school district administrators that evaluate teachers can have a snappy bit of technology in their hands. This technology ensures that teachers receive lots of credit for all the exciting and creative work that those principals catch teachers performing.
Almost everyone hopes and wishes that our schools could improve. Of course, the various stakeholders of our schools hold varying ideas about how this should be accomplished.
