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Comparative Educational Administration
The article “Teaching Our Teachers: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century
Today laid out several realities on the challenges of today’s teacher education training
and the concerns Teacher Education Institutions can address, at the same time
innovative strategies that can help address such concerns.
With the above mentioned realities Pefianco mentioned in the reading, we all
come to the point of asking how evident these are in our individual contexts. How do we
observe the current efforts of TEI’s together with the support of external agencies on
intensifying teacher training? Are the TEI’s preparing the future teachers for a more
complex world of information and learning? How can these TEI’s turn out efficient and
effective teachers, and educational managers?
Indeed, teachers today must be attuned to the demands of the 21st century, be
equipped with the necessary competencies and skills to teach and educate 21st century
learners. Teacher preparation and training must be given attention while at the same
time intensifying professional and career management programs for teachers in TEI’s.
Meeting the challenges of the 21st Century education needs concerted effort of all
stakeholders involve in the process. Teachers that these TEI’s are turning out are
responsible on educating the generation we expect to be 21st century ready.