This document discusses the need for quality educators in today's environment. It argues that teachers must adapt to changing technologies and learning styles to remain effective. Specifically, it recommends that teachers maintain an online presence through websites and social media, facilitate learning by being available 24/7, and focus on being learners themselves rather than just teachers. Effective teaching is interactive and engages students through project-based learning that incorporates technology into the curriculum. For education to meet today's demands, both teachers and students need access to digital learning environments that make every classroom a 21st century classroom.
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This document discusses the need for quality educators in today's environment. It argues that teachers must adapt to changing technologies and learning styles to remain effective. Specifically, it recommends that teachers maintain an online presence through websites and social media, facilitate learning by being available 24/7, and focus on being learners themselves rather than just teachers. Effective teaching is interactive and engages students through project-based learning that incorporates technology into the curriculum. For education to meet today's demands, both teachers and students need access to digital learning environments that make every classroom a 21st century classroom.
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Quality Skills as a need for teachers of the GOOGLE GENERATION....the SMART Teacher Requisites.
This document discusses the need for quality educators in today's environment. It argues that teachers must adapt to changing technologies and learning styles to remain effective. Specifically, it recommends that teachers maintain an online presence through websites and social media, facilitate learning by being available 24/7, and focus on being learners themselves rather than just teachers. Effective teaching is interactive and engages students through project-based learning that incorporates technology into the curriculum. For education to meet today's demands, both teachers and students need access to digital learning environments that make every classroom a 21st century classroom.
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This document discusses the need for quality educators in today's environment. It argues that teachers must adapt to changing technologies and learning styles to remain effective. Specifically, it recommends that teachers maintain an online presence through websites and social media, facilitate learning by being available 24/7, and focus on being learners themselves rather than just teachers. Effective teaching is interactive and engages students through project-based learning that incorporates technology into the curriculum. For education to meet today's demands, both teachers and students need access to digital learning environments that make every classroom a 21st century classroom.
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www.sixsigmaineducation.com Quality Educators: The need today ! “ Don't try to fix the students, fix o urselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed. ” The very environment in which knowledge exists has been transformed as teachers and students have become co-creators of knowledge and not just consumers. What is demanded is Excellence.
Education is the pathway to it.
The tilt from Web 1.0 to 2.0 and now to 3.0 offers requisite of each and every student of today to be IT enabled by chalk and the cheese. The TEACHERS need to harness the requirements to the best of their abilities and interest further. Hence, with no reason, the teachers need to have a balanced approach to policies and practices for children's use of the Internet. No wonder, we have SMART CLASSROOMS now in every school but does that solve the purpose? The Teacher ought to be a TRAINER/ LEARNER/ ALL ROUNDER, with his/ her presence in the CYBER SPACE mandatory. No longer having an EMAIL ID and an expertise of MS OFFICE but more and more…viz….having a WEBSITE, BLOG, WiKi, and more, apart from being SOCIALLY NETWORKED 24x7. Knowledge flows in real time and global connections are no longer being restricted by physical space. The virtual world has so consumed the younger generation that the membrane between real and virtual is becoming non-existent. GONE ARE THE DAYS OF POWERPOINTS Today the child is a SMART viz. Systematic, Meticulous, Active, Realistic and Tactful to involve himself in the learning process. And so is the need for the teacher today is a 20th Century Learner who needs to coin his expertise towards the 21st Century learning requirements. “We” the teachers today if need to be interesting and “Informed” with the march of time or else we would be the only “Un-interested” thing (Identity) in the class, if we are not enriching and of any interest to the children to make
them forget their Facebook
Walls and the SMS
which otherwise make their mind fertile of interest. Quality Educator, if he or she needs to be one, has to have: A Website. At least 200 links on the Internet “About the Teacher”. Share websites with the children. Explore learning through 24/7 availability. Be a Facilitator by walk not only by the talk. Activate self and open to LEARNING rather than TEACHING. Respect the Knowledge of Students what ever they know already. Criticize in PRIVATE and PRAISE in PUBLIC. Explore the best the first time Every time. “Good teaching is also about style. Should good teaching be entertaining? You bet! The schools must support both teachers and students with its Web-enabled digital learning environment, that would make every classroom a 21st century classroom. Effective teaching is not about being locked with both hands glued to a podium or having your eyes fixated on a slide projector while you drone on. Good teachers work the room and every student in it. Teachers’ must effectively integrate technology into core instruction through both direct instruction and project-based activities. Schools need to engage and motivate students with digital curriculum designed to incorporate the best research into how students learn with technology. Change is the only constant REALITY Queries, if any?