I was writing a small piece for a class... thought I'd throw it out there and see what all of you thought:
As the demographics of today’s society becomes ever more complex, economically, culturally, socially, and in terms of gender, psychological diagnosis etc., the role of today’s teacher becomes linearly more complex. Increased complexity of curricular knowledge, class sizes, extra-curricular obligations, and increasing emphasis on security and technological issues seems a bit overbearing upon the workload a teacher is expected to handle. Though I have no doubt that today’s student teachers are getting the very best in educational techniques, I feel that a reversion to the time-tested model of a community education is far superior to the idea of the all-knowing, all-doing, all-everything super teacher.
The framing of today’s teachers as simply the manager of a classroom containing a community of learners is the cornerstone to the broader community, a community of educators. The interactions and slow integration of the classroom-based community of learners to the broader community of educators and citizens, is where much of the knowledge, skills, attitudes, societal knowledge, and technological integration will happen. The classroom will simply become one of the places where both communities may meet and exchange ideas.
In order for this dialog to happen in an effective manner students, parents, administrators, professional unions, policy makers, professionals, passionate amateurs, and citizens, need to have broad and in-depth communications regarding the expectations of future citizens and how to reach those expectations. Needless to say, teachers and classrooms will have a key role in the forging of society’s expectations for the future.
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