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Today’s tip: 8 Tips to Become Tomorrow’s Teacher
Category: Pedagogy
Today’s teachers have little resemblance to your mother’s teachers—lecturing from the front of the classroom, silent children, and rote drills to reinforce skills. Today, teachers are expected to nurture inquiry, critical thinking, and independent thought, often assessed by projects or anecdotal observation.
Here’s a poster with eight tips on how to become tomorrow’s teacher today:
For more on tomorrow’s teacher, check out these articles on Ask a Tech Teacher:
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- What’s Tomorrow’s Digital Student Look Like
- Set up Your Digital Classroom
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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.
It has become very difficult to be a teacher, but I admire those who take up the challenge.
It used to be all about the kids. Now, there is so much else intruding on the good intentions. I’m glad to be out of the physical classroom.