I think my big takeaway this week is that I have a responsibility to share my experience with integrating technology with my colleagues who are ready and interested to learn. Thankfully, it is something that I genuinely enjoy doing, so it is not a burden in that respect. My only real concern revolves around finding time to do it. For the past two years I have taken a 0.2 leave from my teaching assignment to try to improve the life side of the work-life balance, and next year I am returning to work full-time. If I also add on coaching sessions with my colleagues outside of school hours, that will carve even more time out of my home life to dedicate to my school life, and I'm not sure I am ready to do that. I know that I can offer some of these opportunities at lunch time, but it still means that there is something else that I am not doing (marking, planning, photocopying, etc.), which I will have to do at a later time.
Hopefully I can find a way to resolve these concerns and find a balance that is effective for all of us.
Through the activities this week I have also realized that with considered, effective planning, my time constraints within the curriculum can be significantly reduced. By integrating subjects and meaningfully using technology to assist and motivate my students, I can end up saving myself time in the long run and perhaps make my workload more reasonable in that regard.
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