the 21st century teacher

the 21st century teacher

There are essentials skills for the digital learners that should consider in giving appropriate activities and assessments to the learners.

But what about the 21st Century Teachers, what are the characteristics we would expect to see in a 21st Century Educator.

We know they are students centric, holistic, they are teaching about how to learn as much as teaching about the subject area.

We know too, that they must be 21st Century learners as well.

But teachers are more than this. To meet the demands of the Digital Education, the 21st Century Educator should acquire the following characteristics:

The Following characteristics: The Adaptor

The 21st Century teachers is a adaptor. Harnessed as we are to an assessment focused education model the 21st Century Educator must be able to adapt the curriculum and the requirements to teach to the curriculum in imaginative ways. They must also be able to adapt software and hardware designed for a business model into tools utilizable by a variety of age groups and abilities.

They must also be able to adapt to a dynamic teaching experience.

As an educator, they must understand and apply different learning styles.

The VisionaryImagination, a key component of a adaptability, is a crucial component of the educator of today and tomorrow.They must see the potential in the emerging tools

and web technologies, grasp these and manipulated them to serve their needs.

The visionary teacher can look at others ideas and envisage how they would use these in their class.

The visionary also looks across the disciplines and through the curricula.

The collaborator Ning, Blogger, Wikispace, Bebo, MSN, MySpace,

Second Life- as an educator we must be able to leverage these collaborative tools to enhance and captivate our learners.The Risk TakerHow can you as an educator know all

these things? How can you teach them how to use them? There are so many, so much to learn.A 21st Century Educator must take risk and some

times surrender yourself to the students knowledge.

Have a vision of what you want and what the technology can achieve, Identify the goals and facilitate the learning.

The learner We expect our students to be life long learner.

How many schools have the phrase “life long learners” in their statements and objective.

The communicator The 21st Century teachers are fluent in tools

and technologies that enable communication and collaboration.

They know how to use different media in communication.

It allows students to be able to express their insights and share their thoughts in a topic or any issues that concern them.

The Model The Digital teacher must model the behaviors

that are expected from their students. The 21st Century Educators also models reflective

practice,, or through reflective practice via blogs, twitter and other medium, these educators look both inwards and outwards.

These teachers also model a number of other characteristics. These are not necessarily associated with ICT or the curriculum, but are of equal importance.

The Leader Leadership, like clear goals and objectives is

crucial to the success or failure of any project.

Tolerance Acceptance A wider view than just their curricula areas Global awareness Reflection

They model:

Facilitating 21st Century Learning ICT is an abbreviation for information and

Communication Technologies. In facilitating 21st Century learning, there are

three factors that administrators and educators are deliberately considering in the implementation of technology in education. 1.Resources2.Skills3.Curriculum