In the past two years, I was the Instructional Technology Coach for our district in grades 6 - 12. Most of my hardest "customers" to change and incorporate technology into their lessons were the high school teachers. In their minds eye, they did not need nor want technology integrated into their lessons. They believed they all they needed in their room by having their whiteboard and their textbooks. At first I felt it was because they were "high school" teachers. Being a K - 8 teacher, we all know how high school teachers are. They feel nothing pertains to them and all they need is their knowledge and want to impart that onto their students. But, what I actually found out was that a lot of the High school teachers were sort of scared to use the new technology and it was easier to continue to do what they had always done rather than to learn something new.
In essence, I actually used Dr. Keller's ARCS model when working with the High school teachers.
Attention:
To grab the teachers attention, I asked them if it would be ok if I taught a lesson to their class on a topic they were teaching at the time, but with the technology I was trying to get them to use. If they didn't like that idea, I would make games for them to play with their students while they are working on the lesson.
Relevance:
In order of using Relevance, I used the teachers experience, and the future knowledge using the technology would enhance their lessons and again the modeling and choice.
Confidence:
I would offer to teach a lesson then stay while the teacher taught the same lesson using the technology or give them small steps in using the technology so that they would feel empowered.
Satisfaction:
By helping the teacher in using the steps and scaffolding them with the new technology, they would have the satisfaction of learning and then wanting to learn more.
