While my own journey to teaching has included more detours than can be detailed here, this particular route into looking at technology and adult learners has brought me full circle, to where my passion for teaching began. This return to teaching technology use to adults has brought me to understand how my skills for the time being require far more refining when it comes to technology. My passion lies with how best to deliver this content and enable the student, bringing that skill building mentality out of the high school and into the training workshop.
While I do not doubt that I have the skills to be a fantastic teacher today, it is within the IT world that I will seek out a career for now. My time spent in IT will allow me to become a better teacher, more aware of how to utilize technology and cognizant of the teacher role and how I can break out of it when necessary for my students. Perhaps too, working with adults will give me the awareness of how to teach my students to become the digital citizens I expect adults to be within my classroom. Hopefully it will also give me a venue to the answer the questions I still have about the best spaces to learn and the ways in which teachers can be supported or restricted by the technology in the room.
All the while, I hope to bring a new perspective to the business world, changing the language up perhaps but following the strong theories of education, differentiation and assessment's best practices.