miércoles, 12 de agosto de 2015
Teaching is one of the oldest professions around. As future educator you are now creating your own vision on what a teacher needs to be in the classroom, the school community and the community as a whole. After reading, discussing and reflecting on what a teacher profile should include and model, what do you believe is essential for teachers within this 21st century to be? What should educators within this time model for future generations?
Prof. Arlinda Lopez
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I believe that being flexible, open minded, and innovative are essential qualities that a teacher within this 21st century should possess. We are currently living on a ever evolving era where technology is progressing at a rapid rate and we as educators should utilize it as much as we can in any way that it can prove to be beneficial to everyone in the community that surrounds us. At the same time, they can't be afraid to trying out new ideas that can prove to be valuable for the students. That is why, teachers from the 21st century should be flexible to quickly adapt or change what's not yielding desirable results, open minded to any idea that can produce a positive impact even if it means stepping outside of their boundaries to achieve them, and innovative at every attempt they make to make this technological filled world we live in more accessible and fun to the students of our current generation. At the same time, I believe that these qualities are essential for the educator to model for future generations in order to promote long lasting positive qualities (responsible, reliable, creative, etc.) within our peers and students from the entire community.
ResponderBorrarDoes anyone agrees with this and why?
I agree because it is true we as people need to have an open mind to the changes that happen over time otherwise we would never function as a success member of "society" in my opinion I believe that the fast we adapt and teach others to adapt the better the opportunities of said persons to get better opportunities in the future.
BorrarI agree, developing qualities on the students is necessary as it will permit him/her to be successful in life. An open minded approach to the learning process can lead the way for innovative practices in the classroom and a 21st century technological approach. "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
BorrarWell said, I think sometimes teachers get a little too comfortable with their routine. They do not realize that what worked with the students 10 years ago doesn't necessarily work with the students of today. As you said technology is always evolving and so are the students. So the teachers need to change with the times, if they want to keep their pupils' attention.
BorrarI agree with your first point completely, teachers should posses all these qualities. To your last point those are things that should have always been promoted in all places, but as teachers if we can show students these things, and they embrace good qualities and values then we as teachers should be proud.
BorrarIn my opinion I believe what is most essential for teachers in the twenty-first century is their ability to keep up with the changes in society and not be afraid to implement those changes in the classroom. I think that if the material we give to our students as future teachers should be culturally relevant for the students so they would be likelier for them to learn what was being taught. Future educators should model in this century would be the changes in the upcoming technologies and guide their students to choose the best and most validated information, for them to ignore quackeries, and for the teacher to teach his/hers students the difference between them. The ultimate goal for us as future educators would be for our students to become the best professionals in the field of work of their choosing.
ResponderBorrarIf you care to leave a comment please replay and have a great day/night...
I completely agree with you. It's important for teachers to keep up to date with the changes in society, if they don't well frankly I see it as a downfall for education itself.
BorrarI agree with the entire sentiment, teachers should be willing to adapt to the constant changes that occur around them so they can maximize the ways they can achieve the purpose of helping the students to become professionals. At the end of the day, as future educators, we should all strive to achieve a positive impact to our students.
BorrarI agree that the teachers need to update their way of teaching by the changes that are occurring in their surrounding and teach with the material that is relevant to the place they live.
BorrarI agree with you when you say that teachers have to be and should be models, because all the students are watching us and listening to us more time that they listen to their parents. Students spend more time in school than at their houses. We as teachers have to adjust our style and ways of teaching taking in mine the diversity of students we have in the classroom. Culturally speaking we have to consider every student in a our classroom because you can have an American an a Puerto Rican in the same classroom. As facilitators we have to teach both cultures the English language in a creative and fun way so they can enjoy it, because they are going to become professionals in the future.
BorrarEducation throughout the generations has gone through many chances, adaptations to each century. Following education are teachers whom have also had to go through a process of evolution themselves. Teachers in this particular era should be more open minded. It is essential for teachers to be more interactive with students. In this century students are more prone to have a shorter attention span. Therefor teachers should adapt to ways in which they grasp students attention. Example of ways they could do so is by integrating technology into the classroom, group discussions, teachers must create an environment in which the student will feel comfortable being expressive. All this done without loosing the sense of professionalism and respect in the classroom, but finding ways to better the teaching system.
ResponderBorrarEducation as a concept has been reshaped, students as individuals are different in the 21st century. Technology has been trying to take the role of the teacher. People prefer to watch a YouTube video when they want to learn something instead of listening to a teacher and taking notes. To engage students in the learning process is becoming more difficult each day. Developing a conversational approach in the classroom can make the students feel good as they are having an active role in the process. The way I see it, students have two modes: passive and active. We must go up front and trigger the active mode in each and every one of them with the purpose of reshaping the monumental task we have on our hands. "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." (Malcolm Forbes)
BorrarI agree with you Stephanie teachers should utilize technology and educational gaming to get students more interesting to the students and make them feel like they are not doing the work.and for them to actually enjoy the assignment they are doing.
BorrarStephanie I agree with you. If teacher don't update their learning, approaches, techniques, and teaching they will fall. Generation will keep changing ad the environment of schools too. Now a days, students smell, eat, live with technology. Why can't we integrate it in class? Just because you don't know that doesn't mean you can learn for the benefit of your students and yourself. To make your teaching skills sharp.
BorrarStephanie, I wonder – if the attention of students is shorter, why is it? I think many would concur it's because of technology, of an audio-visual culture. And by what means will we, as you say, "grasp student attention"? By more technology, which is, as I mentioned, the source or one of the main villains of this problem. I propose, Steph and friends, a radical solution to attention span shortening: silence. To create a "breathing space" in the classroom, where the students will sit comfortably and remain in silence. They will learn to control their thoughts, or be at ease with them. In this process, the mind will lose its hold, their bodies will fidget less. We would be on our way to a still being, who is, of course, the best and most active creature around. My thoughts, expressed humbly, I think.
BorrarStephanie I agree completely with you because we are living in a world that is constantly changing. Every generation is different. Teachers have to evolved and get the student attention by all the things that you mentioned like for example technology. The technology is a powerful tool the teachers need to used and implement in their classroom. With technology you will get into a more higher level of thinking because if you explain orally something to your students that they have never seen the students can imagined it, but if you used a video they will captured it and understand it a lot better.
BorrarThe 21st century teaching approach.
ResponderBorrarI believe that every student has a crucial and irreplaceable role in the learning process. A role that is linked to the other students, as well as the teacher. Being open minded and innovative is imperative nowadays. Reshaping our task is necessary, implementing technology in the classroom is crucial and opening the minds of the students should be our priority. A constructivist approach with a chance for the students to take the active role in the learning process will make way for better teaching opportunities. Giving an insight to common issues in our time should be a priority as well because it will develop critical thinking skill in the students. It is not about being the book from which they obtain knowledge, it is about being a resource that they can use to facilitate their reading of a real book. Questions and answers, group discussions, high level thinking processes; all of these terms are important and should be present in every class we give as future teachers. "The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." (Sidney J. Harris) Every teacher has a different approach to the learning process, What's yours? Leave your thoughts in the comments section and have a great day.
In my case, for my approach I can mention the method/approach project I did last semester in Methodology. The method/approach I created tackled in with my belief that the students in the secondary level of education have a motivational problem in their own classroom that affects how they participate in class and how they study for it as well. So in this method/approach, the teacher takes on a role in which they raise the students motivation and morale via class participation and a reward system that invites the student to participate and punishes those that misbehave. The teacher is willing to adapt, change, and innovate if its beneficial for the students academic progress. This goes into my belief that we must achieve a balance in making the classroom an accessible environment where the students feel motivated to become a better person/professional every day while working alongside with their peers. It is also another example that shows that as educators in the 21st century, we should always be willing to adapt to the constant changes that occur in the technology filled culture that we are part of.
BorrarThe last semester I was in Methodology class and one of the approach I created with my group was the fun language approach. I would like to make my way of teaching fun and active, so my students get motivated in my class and learn by experience. If the students just seats there for and hour he or she will get bored. I know that language is not a fun subject to learn, but using their advanced technology and their environment experience it will flow on the students.
BorrarI approve enormously of the notion of the student as a process, as an entity under the constructivist umbrella. The student not being defined, fixed, this or that, but on a never-ending journey of self-discovery. And not just that which pertains to him, but to the world itself. From a classroom, I think, three can emerge: teachers, mediocrities, or soldiers. Why teachers? Because a teacher merely elicits the teacher inside the student. Why mediocrities? Because those who end up in the slums, drug addicts or drop-outs, to an extent, gave up on the highest vision of themselves, the sense of life that is one of sunshine, glory, radiance - they yielded to the idea of life as a sewer, and failed to achieve their dreams. Why soldiers? Because they end up being fed propaganda, and succumb to any demagogue who would command them. They failed to develop analytical capacities and self-reflection. Out of all my posts, I find this one to be truly opinion, and not really related to a general idea based on empirical data. I still, however, like the style and content, and perceive certain truths within the post; therefore, I leave it. Thank you for the invitation to share my own thoughts, Jimmy.
BorrarAs a future teacher I want to be more for my students. In this generations students must learn more than language or a material giving in class just for memorizing and having a good grade. There is a world out there waiting for this amazing students integrate their creativeness and ideas for society.technology, critical thinking, solving problems, and making a change it is what students must learn in school. I want to embraced them to discover by themselves what are they capable of leaning by doing. Make them feel free to express and share ideas of their own way of learning.The experience they encounter in the school or in the environment that make them challenge themselves a way out. “There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his [sic] activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.” ― (John Dewey, Experience and Education) Teachers must be facilitators, guides, mentor for the students in a class. Give them the tools necessary so they can succeed in learning. Everything that evolves in education will keep advancing to make learning progressive and easier. We must learn together with them, so we don't get behind and forget the sacrifice we made since we made the decision of becoming teachers. How will you succeed as a teacher? How will you make a difference as a teacher in your class?
ResponderBorrarI agree wholeheartedly with your way of thinking. There's so much more to success and being an intelligent person than we are led to believe. People are different, and thus they have different skills, abilities and knowledge to contribute to society. So it's the teachers' job to find and nurture those abilities, then each student has the opportunity to explore and ultimately realize their own potential.
BorrarPersonally, I do not see a difference in regard to fundamentals between a teacher qua a teacher, that is to say, a teacher being a teacher, who is, in essence, a teacher, and a teacher of the "twenty-first century." I mean to say, that we encounter a fallacy, it seems to me, in the notion that a teacher of this century needs to be different essentially than a teacher of the past. Perhaps the idea of modern technology integration into the learning experience plays a significant role in this sort of thinking. One must remember that technology per se - a pen, for instance - has existed for quite some time, not just in the twenty-first century. Also, there is a sense of change for change's sake, a desire for new things, innovation, simply because. Some may argue the times demand change, but personally, I find that all a classroom needs are students and a teacher with an open heart. This open-heart policy is the fundamental I alluded to earlier, the essence: One who wishes to teach - truly teach - not just make the students nod in the right places, or produce egotistical cogs in a system of complacency with injustice. Since I believe teaching is an act of freedom, then it follows that teaching is a dangerous activity, it is the embodiment of revolt: Every politician in the land should fear the classroom, for it is the place where, properly, the mind is set free from its conditionings (familial, religious, cultural) and allowed to go about on its own, for the flourishing of the world, and not just the student or the teacher or even the community (they are part of the world, of course.) I think that emphasis on technology per se, on catchy ideas like "twenty-first century teachers" moves us away from the heart-core of teaching, from the essence of love and freedom that animates any education. In a word, all of that is simply distraction. Amusing, entertaining, but not really education. It could be education, but even then, only a small facet to the large heart-core of the process. All, of course, my simple and humble opinion.
ResponderBorrarTeachers in this generation, and in future generations, should be able to work with there students and learn to work with there needs. That said, I believe that teachers should be able to evolve in the classroom. Educators in the 21st century should be able to use resources that is in their grasp. In our time, technology is the "norm" in every household and knowing that it is important to understand that children, in this generation, are so used to having it (technology) We incorporate in our classrooms capture their attention. But how do we do this? Simple. As teachers/future teachers we should always be up to day with new teaching methods and find new ways of incorporating them to their classrooms. Teachers should also also show their students how convenient technology is when it comes to searching for information. We as teachers/future teachers should do our best to open the "hunger" for knowledge in our students. Also, we should be able to give our students a safe and secure atmosphere in which they are comfortable in asking questions.
ResponderBorrarI stand by your first point to a certain extent, I see the need to do this as it motivates that student more, but it has to be done in a way that does not consume all your time as there are more students that might need that same treatment. The use of technology should be a norm' as it enriches the learning experience and it also motivates students.
BorrarI think teachers now a days need to stop viewing the students simply as ‘future graduates’ or ‘future college students’. Not every student has the same dreams and aspirations, not everybody is suited for the same life style, and not every student is sure of their future plans. That’s why I think teacher need to be sort of like a guidance counselor for their students, especially high school teachers. High school, for a lot of people, is a confusing and stressful time; why should they care about punctuation or grammar, when they feel like they are at a major turning point in their lives? And worst of all they have no idea where they’ll end up. This is the reason why we need to give them, not the right answers, but the right questions. Let’s promote a little introspection! We need to facilitate the tools they will need to figure out who they are, what they believe in, what they are truly passionate about and what makes them happy (despite what other people think), only then can we ask them what they want to do with their lives. The world doesn’t need more mindless sheep, it needs more analytical and independent thinkers. Curiosity, that’s what I would like to teach my students. Sure, it’s good if they learn the famous “To be or not to be” speech, but I want them to question why this was such an overwhelming moral dilemma, and I want them to think; What if I were in Hamlet’s position? What would I do and WHY? I would like to see teachers who care about students knowing more than just what a standardized test wants them to.
ResponderBorrarRight from the get go I can say that what is most essential to a teacher in the 21'st century is open mindedness. Teachers that stick to the practices, ways and mentalities of the past hinder the teaching experience. If a teacher does not accept things as they change, then he/she can never truly hope to understand the students. Education has gone from just being discussions where students had little to no input, to hands on teacher/students lessons. Teachers need to be motivators as some students don't feel the courage to speak up and voice their own opinions, classroom were discussion is promoted are healthy classrooms. Discussion leads to better learning as students how join in and add to it are more prone to remember and learn better. All in all I stand by the two points that teachers need to open minded and promote discussions in the classroom as I believe this enriches learning and personality.
ResponderBorrarI agree that the teachers need to be the spark that motivate the students to learn and to express their opinion freely so there can be a healthy teacher/student relationship in class.
ResponderBorrarTeacher should modify their way of teaching, not been the traditional teacher in which the students sit an the teacher talks. Our world is changing and society is changing to and we need our students to feel the liberty to express in class to learn in union, to let them think critically to expand their knowledge. We need to break the walls of the traditional teaching and expand to an open mind class in which the teacher are a guide to the students so they can look for the answers in various ways not only by giving the information to them but by them doing research, investigation and discussions. For teachers in this century need to be open to update their way of teaching and not to be afraid to do it because in the change we can learn new things.
ResponderBorrarI think that teachers have to stop being dictators and start being guides and facilitators for their students. We are going to be teaching in the 21st century so we have to think out of the box right? In this time we can't teach the same way, our teachers in elementary school teach us it will be boring if we use the same techniques. Now in this days we have to evolve every time something new in technology shows up and we have to be creative every time we get the chance to teach. I think that if we teach in that way our students will love our class, they will learn and we will be remember. I know that you guys want to leave a mark of knowledge in each one of your students.
ResponderBorrarYes, 21st century education should move teachers towards greater change and adaptation to student needs. Educators now are educating the future leaders and workers. Teachers need to facilitate learning with a constructivist philosophy in mind. We need a society that not only knows what questions to ask but how to seek the answers with success. Prof. Arlinda Lopez
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