The First Step Towards Change Is Awareness

Today I went to a toolkit PD on Google Sites. Everything seems so simple when things are being explained. There is a lot of information and I KNOW that when it comes to me sitting down to my site, I am going to forget how to do everything... argh! It is so frustrating.

As I look around, I feel as though everyone is aware of what to do except for me. There are lots of short cuts on how to do things but I am not even familiar on the proper way of how to do things. Now there are short cuts and I feel quite overwhelmed with needing to learn how to do this in order for the students to have a site up and running so they can get the most out of their learning while I plan and meet the various other deadlines required of me.

As I sit here, I begin to to wonder how many other people in this toolkit feel as I do?
Who feels as lost as I am?

It makes me think about the learners in my class who are trying their best to listen to what I am saying but end up feeling lost. Those who seem disinterested might not have anything to do with them not wanting to learn but more about the way that things are being taught isn't in a way that they can relate to.  Even the speed that something is being taught might be at a pace where they haven't fully processed what was just said and already the teacher has moved on to the next thought.
This has made me more aware of how I need to be with my learners.

It is so important to remember that everyone doesn't learn at the same rate. Yes it can be frustrating at times if someone learns something in 2 minutes vs someone else who has yet to learn that same concept. In a perfect world, we would all learn things the moment we are exposed to them and it would stick. That isn't always the case.

I am still learning...