How Teachers Are Upskilling For The New Age Technology

So how are educators redefining the educational framework today?

1. They endeavour to facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity so that all students achieve in the global society. Teachers are engaging today’s digital-age learners to meet the goals of closing the achievement gap, so that all students graduate from high school ready to succeed in college and careers.

2. They enable students to maximize the potential of their formal and informal learning experiences. Teachers are learning to work within a technology-empowered ecology and are trying to help students orchestrate the resources of this new learning environment to meet their individual learning needs.

3. New age teachers facilitate learning in multiple modalities. In an open learning ecology, teachers are learning to embrace a greater diversity of spaces, times, resources, media, and  other methods. Modern day learning environments are synchronous and asynchronous, face-to-face and virtual, local and global. The rapid growth of virtual high schools and courses, underscores the need for teachers with the skills to teach both in classrooms and online environments.

4. Teachers have not only embraced technology like never before, but they have also reached out to the emotionally distraught children, making time to counsel them, help them adapt to a technology-driven learning and move forward. They have played the roles of mentors, facilitators and counsellors, having counselled parents who are juggling with multiple responsibilities in the midst of the pandemic.

5. Teachers are collaborating with subject matter experts in the community in a blend of  face-to-face and online learning that turns schools into hubs in a networked learning ecology. 

6. Teachers are now making use of the full range of digital-age learning tools to improve student engagement and achievement. Teachers are reliant on digital technology to customize learning activities for individual student needs. They are also willing to contribute to the continued evolution of these tools and develop their knowledge of how to use them to improve learning. 

In essence, teachers have well understood that transformational changes are needed in teacher education to move the public education system into a contemporary sphere. Nations around the world are racing to take their educational systems into the future also encouraging our educators to build pathways to the future of digital-age teaching and learning and taking the first step towards launching this transformation.