Get Equipped to Be a Future Teacher

Get Equipped to Be a Future Teacher

To become a future teacher is not only to teach our future students what we know for now, but also to teach them what they should know for their future. For this purpose, we should always challenge our current teaching style, and instantly ask ourselves whether there is anything that need to be changed?

      For the issue of Educational Change Challenge, different people have different point of views. But the first question in this video really worth our time to ponder: locking 25 students in a small room with one adult for several hours a day is the best way for students to be educated? Teachers need to exist in the space that students exist, understand their culture. According to my experience, the particular type of teachers who want to listen to students’ voice, like the things students like were always the most popular and welcomed teachers.

      New technologies will undoubtedly become a useful tool that connect teachers and students more tightly, which also can infuse more fun and diversity to attract students and inspire them in many ways. A vision of 21st century teachers displayed so many ways that teachers apply new technologies into their teaching and how students acquire and feel as a result of their new teaching ways. Like the teachers ‘said’ in their board: I’m a 21^st century teacher, I spend 4 hours a week maintaining a class website, 20 hours carrying out interactive white board activities, 5-10 hours online researching learning resources, and my students collaborate to create multimedia reports, construct knowledge about novels on our wiki, blog to share analysis of literature create digital music mixes for presentation soundtracks, shoot videos to express themselves….  All those things sound so different from our traditional teaching styles that some people may argue that teachers should always focus on the knowledge that we should impart to our students, no matter in what form, because the content is way more important. However, it should be viewed from a higher level, that we are not preparing students for our age, but for theirs!! That’s the core why we should get well equipped to be a future teacher.

     All in all, who dare to teach must never cease to learn!