21ST
CENTURY EDUCATOR.
The world is dynamic and fast
growing as different activities of men changes each day, evolutions, science
and technology, innovations and many more are the agents of transformations in
this 21st century. The 21st century educators is a unique
teacher who is versatile and vast in his field of study and digitally inclined,
he/she knows what to do at a time ,his brains is not sleeping while the body
sleeps.A 21st century educator is a goal oriented person
that his/her teaching-learning process is a practical base study rather than
the abstract and parochial discussion of the 19 th century. However he/she needs to posses the
following attributes and abilities.Ø Learners driving.
The new learner is transforming himself from a passive actor into an active, is
becoming a conscious leader of his
personal lifelong learning path.
Ø Deep access to information,
tools and experts in ways not possible before.
Ø The ability to network and team up with other learners who have the same interests,
independently of their age, location or experience.
Ø The emergence of the professional independent (teacher)
mentor / guide. Both outside and inside traditional educational institutions
a new breed of guides, coaches, facilitators and advisers is already emerging
and creating new classless learning ecosystems. These new "teachers"
think, act and perform their multiple roles of guides, facilitators and
learning advisers with a spirit and attitude that is radically different from
the one that is typical of the traditional, classic educator. Andrew Churches
challenges the status quo and paints a detailed profile of what this new
breed of professors is going to look like.
Eight Habits of
Highly Effective 21st Century Teachers
By Andrew Churches
THE
ADAPTOR
He or she must be able to
adapt the curriculum and the requirements to teach the curriculum in
imaginative ways. A 21st
century educator must be able to adapt
software and hardware designed for a business model into tools utilizable by
variety of age groups and abilities, also the must be able to adapt to a
dynamic teaching experience even when the technologies fail, the show must go
on.
THE VISIONARY
The visionary educator can
look at others ideas and envisage how they would be use in his/her class. They
can make links that reinforce and value learning in other areas and leverage in
other fields to reinforce their own teaching and the learning of their
students.
THE COLLABORATOR
As a 21st century
educator we must be able to integrate these collaborative tools like MSN, Bebo,
MySpace, Second life Wikispaces, Blogger and more to enhance and captivate our learners. Also we too must
be collaborators; sharing, contributing, adapting and inventing.
THE RISK TAKER
As a 21st century
educator you must take risks and sometimes surrender yourself to the students. If
not how can you venture into all these discovery, know them and teach the
students how to use them, because there are so many ,so much to learn. Hence,
you must take the risk.
THE LEARNER
We must stay current, a 21st
century educator learn each day, because
learning is continuous. It is a ‘’life long exercise’’. He/she must not be
using a lesson plan prepared five years ago, but rather learn new things and
adapt.
THE COMMUNICATOR
A 21 st century educator is a good speaker and have a
total communication skills. They are fluent in tools and technologies that enable
communication and collaboration, also they go beyond learning just how to do
it, they also know how to facilitate it, stimulate and control it, moderate and
manage it.
THE MODEL
The 21st century educator is a model, by
teaching the students values because as an educator we are often the most consistent part of our
student life. We see them more often, for longer and more reliably than their
parents. However this is not a criticism of the parents rather a reflection.
The 21 st century educator also model reflective practice , whether its quiet,
personal inspection of their teaching and learning , or through reflective
practice through via blogs, twitter and
other medium, these educators look both inwards and outwards.
THE LEADER
Leadership is learned
behavior that becomes unconscious and automatic over time. For example leaders
can make several important decisions about an issue in the time it takes others
to understand the question. The process of making decisions comes from an
accumulation of experiences and encounters with multitude of difference
circumstances, personality types and unforeseen failures. The most successful
leaders are instinctual decision makers.
PRESENTATION SKILLS THAT A
21ST CENTURY EDUCATORS MUST KNOW
By EdTech Team
The
21st century educators should be able to:
1.
Create and edit digital audio
2. Use social bookmarking to share resources with and between
learners.
3. Use blogs and wikis to create online platforms for students
4. Exploit digital images for classroom use.
5. Use video content to engage students
6. Use info graphics to visually stimulate
students.
7. Use social networking sites to connect with colleagues and grow
professionally
8. Create and deliver asynchronous
presentations and training sessions
9. Compile a digital e-portfolio for their own development.
10. Be able to detect a
plagiarized works in students assignments.
11. Create screen capture videos and
tutorials
13.Curate web content for classroom learning.
14. Use and provide students with task management tools to
organize their works and plan their learning.
15.Use polling software to create a real-time survey
in class.
16. Understand issues related to copyright and fair use of online
materials.
17.Use digital assessment tools to create
quizzes.
18.Find and evaluate
authentic web based content.
19 Use digital tools for time management purpose.
20. Use note taking tools to share interesting content with your
students.
21.Use
of online sticky notes to capture interesting ideas.
Conclusively, the 21 st
century educators are policy maker, designer, leader, minister, nurse and many
more. They think outside the box seizing the tiniest opportunity to explore and
deliver qualitative contents to their learners.
