#5

My visit to Salem Hills High School was not as beneficial to my learning experience as I would have liked. There happened to be a guest speaker in Chris Andrews' class when I went today. While I got to learn a lot about Art Institute and careers that multimedia can take you into, I did not get to see Mr. Andrews teach his class.

Talking to him afterwards, however, was very enlightening. I learned that if you get the right people in the administration behind you, you can accomplish a lot more and have greater flexibility with what you want to teach. Administrators do not really know what to do with tech teachers, so they let them do their own thing.

Since Chris is new to teaching, it was interesting to see how he is adjusting to being a real teacher rather than a student teacher. It sounds like everyone will at some point have to go through an experimental phase when we are on our own to figure out what theories we can effectively work with in our own classroom.

I am interested to see what theories I will try and what will work in my future classroom.