Reflection on "New Insights on Technology Adoption in Schools"

After reading this article, I believe that I would place myself in Stage Three, Teacher as Co-Learner.  I feel that I already have a knowledge of how to use much of the software that is available for teachers to use within the classroom. I am currently learning how to use this software to better accommodate my student's learning methods.  I have been working on ways to use technology to teach the Common Core standards that North Carolina will me implementing in the 2012-2013 school year.  I have been to a few workshops on how to better incorporate these technologies into the classroom and when I can, I try to help other teachers with learning how to use the technology within their classrooms. As a future educator, I feel that this means I still have room to grow.  I am excited that there are still many things for me to learn in my career as a teacher, but I am also glad that my knowledge of technology and education will help to further me in my career.  I am also glad that I am able to help other teachers.  In 5 years I would like to have progressed to Stage Five, Teacher as Leader.  I would like to have reached a point in my career that I can help to further implement technology into schools and to help with creating new ways to do this.  I would love to be able to hold workshops within my school so that I can teach other teachers the ways in which to better help their own students.  In 10 years, I would love to have a position within schools that finds new technologies for the classroom and goes to schools to implement these technologies.  I feel that I have seen the excitement in a student's face when they know they get to use the computer that day, and I would love to take that excitement even further.