Change

Today is Monday, 11-12-07. We had a staff development day last Friday. During that staff development we discussed math and different ways to improve our students algebraic thinking. This is a good thing since math is one of the things we need to improve with the testing junk and all. I found a great website that supported some of what we talked about while checking the Smartboard Podcast out. The website is www.rainforestmaths.com it is a multi grade level site that is very interactive. I shared this site with our math coordinator and she wanted me to show it off after school to our math committee. No problem. I shared the site and then the complaining started about how they could use this site and why can't parents find this on their own instead of us having to find it for them. Some teachers made it sound like they do not have time to find anything extra that could help their students on-line. They missed the whole idea this is supposed to be a different way to reach students. Obviously if what we already did worked we would not have trouble with our testing. Sometimes cleaning out the files and trying something new is not that scary and can potentially be very rewarding. I know that what they were rebelling against was the thought of dealing with technology and the internet. It is here, get over it. Anyone else have other dinosaurs that do not want to change?