SCENARIO TWO

You are a recent graduate, starting your first teaching position at Hayward RI school. It is a very small K-8 school in a rural area. Your first impressions are of a very relaxed and friendly place.

In your interview, one of the School Board members asked if you used (and enjoyed) technology in your teaching. In college, you had the opportunity to learn many things about using technology in the curriculum. The School Board members seemed really pleased when you responded positively.

About two weeks after you were hired, you found out that a grant had been written to put in ten computers and network the school. As the computers arrived, it became apparent that no one knew how to set them up.

Then the truth came out. They needed a social studies teacher, but they also needed someone to take leadership in technology.

As you sat in the office of Mrs. Millholand, the principal, she explained to you that one period each day would be allocated to setting up the computers and to coordinating all of the technology. You feel overwhelmed. How can you teach your first year of social studies and also coordinate technology?

What will you do?