Future Career Plans

Career Goals

There is so much I want to learn and do that it is difficult to pinpoint with any certainty where it is that my passion will take me. For now, I know that I will use my newly acquired knowledge and skills to create engaging and meaningful learning in my classroom. I am keenly aware of what makes a good visual and the basic rules for using space and graphics. That nugget of knowledge and skill alone makes a huge difference in the way I deliver instruction today. I like to share my knowledge with others and I purposefully look for ways to encourage others in embracing diffusion of innovations with technology. It is not always easy to be the cheerleader in the room for the new program or method of doing something, but once my peers see the benefits they can gain from innovation or method, they usually come around.

Fulton County Schools, the school system where I work has a countywide Instructional Technology Team called Vanguard. I hope to become an active member in this group, while being in the classroom applying my learning. Members of Vanguard enjoy learning new programs and Apps first and testing live in the classroom environment. That is very exciting to me. As a member of Vanchise in my school, I am already poised to become part of the countywide group. Currently, I offer professional development to my peers and I am looked upon as a SME for the technology that we currently use. I am an unofficial technology coach in my school.

One of my personal goals is to have a totally paperless classroom environment. I like the clean, stark, uncluttered look of a paperless classroom. The space is conducive to focus and engagement on what is on the screen, and students can interact with the data. It is also being environmentally conscious by saving paper. The use of paper - though biodegradable, is killing our forests and enlarging our carbon print on the planet.

I'd like to become more active in the instructional technology field by attending conferences (post Covid-19) and networking with likeminded professionals. I know I will continue learning about the ever-changing technology driven world, thus enabling my students’ successful participation in life during and after their formal education. Down the road, after retirement, in five to ten years, I’d like to be a part-time, school-site instructional technology coach or become an online educator creating and instructing courses for a junior college or university.