Friday, April 8, 2011

The Future of Teaching: Great Teachers Still Need Apply | The Jose Vilson

The Future of Teaching: Great Teachers Still Need Apply | The Jose Vilson

The Future of Teaching: Great Teachers Still Need Apply

Excerpt:

Transformative pedagogy is so critical to the 21st century that we can no longer accept that we the teachers are the epicenter of all things educational. However, the one thing we can accept responsibility for is teaching students how to learn. The rigors of our most growing fields demand that we push students to learn those skills even when we have no idea what’s on the horizon. For content teachers and generalists, it means very similar things in that, no matter what the content is, there’s a certain set of skills that every student must use irrespective of whether they’re doing it