New Technology

In recent years, buy the help of technology, education facility diversified to several areas. For education of special need children, technology is so helpful for example. Thesedays we are talking about useful sides of technology in our daily teaching lives. We are learning that we need to use the last edition of technology in our classroom environment. As a prospect teacher we need to be familiar with these issues.
However, this does not mean that we need to fosuc on only technological development and get away from traditional education techniques. Children of todays' world, we face with positive and negative results. While we are trying to educate children in a good way, we also have to compete with technology mania. Literacy is also always changing. In today's world we used to communicate via text messaging, instant messaging, cell phones and etc... We are so far from face to face communication day by day. Our next generation has already grown up by these communication techniques and we need to do something immediately to stop this extraordinary changes in all our lives.
Classic Literacy techniques like novel is not seen as useful as internet. I think this is a critical time in the field of literacy. As a teacher of future we need to learn to balance between classic literacy and internet based education.

assessment

From my point of view, assessment is a great tool to evaluate the developments negatively or positively. A teacher can use the assessment techniques for herself or for students. From the side of teacher he or she may want to learn is he or she gives relevant and efficient information to children. And from the side of students teachers and families may understand their students or children’s development from the results of assessments. Actually I do not want to mean that all assessment results are accurate but most of the time they work very well. We as a teacher only need to add some missing part to that. For example an in-class observation, individual conversations, peer group observation always should be added to regular testing. Otherwise we may forget to look crucial details. In this regards teachers and families may work together and we can reach a whole picture about a child.
For example when I was a first grade student, my writing was not so good. Due to being a huge class I did not have sufficient attention from my teacher. Therefore I could not go through well. And all my tests I was so excited and due to anxiety I had real trouble in the exams. I got low scores. Then my mother understood that something is wrong with my writing. Then she was interested in me for two weeks. Only in two weeks I reached my friends and I had a good score. The only my need is more attention. So only testing is not enough assessment strategy because there are a lot of factor may affect performance while testing. Assessment is a total subject. As a prospect teacher we need to be careful about our ways of assessment.