Hi fellow classmates and Happy New Year!
My name is Marie and I am a teacher in the Kamloops, BC school district. I am currently teaching in high school but my previous experience is at the elementary level. This is my first step into the MET program and I am looking forward to the challenge and also a bit nervous at the juggling between work, family and school.
I have been a teacher on and off since 2008, with a pause to start a family. Within the pause, I started a separate career as a mortgage broker, but, with the ever changing challenge of the housing market, rules and guidelines, I decided to focus on back on education and have been a full-time teacher for the past 6 years.
As everyone has experienced the need to think fast and pivot during this pandemic, I believed that extending my education in technology would be the most valuable path to take to improve my role as a teacher.
Hello Marie! You’ve set a great goal here, in pursuing educational technology!
Hi Marie, Welcome to the MET program! One thing to keep in mind is that this course is set up very differently than the others. Out of the 7 other courses I’ve taken, they’ve all been set up in the Canvas LMS, and the Summer Institute I took was in Slack. I highly recommend that you take ETEC 500 before any of the other courses moving forward as it will set up a good foundation for using Canvas, referencing, etc (something that I was very rusty on when I started in 2020…). Please feel free to reach out if you ever have any questions on juggling everything.