Teachers are often considered to be the architects of the future and hold within their hands the power to shape the course of destiny as they are the people responsible for molding young minds and providing them with the tools and skills to learn, understand and explore the world around them. As such, they are the most important people after a child’s parents and have a major role in determining the way a child will turn out as they approach adulthood. But as the Spiderman quote by uncle Ben goes, “With great power, comes great responsibility.” and this is particularly true in the case of the people responsible in bringing academic, social and moral values into the lives of so many children and being a role model to them. This blog post is designed to tell you the importance of self-education, which is a constant process that will allow you to improve your own knowledge, and also bring a lot more variety and value into the lives of your students.
A teacher is, first and foremost, a person responsible for bringing new knowledge and information to the classroom and presenting it in a way that makes is fun and memorable for kids. To do this effectively in the day and age of fast moving technology and rapid information dissemination is not very difficult, provided you know how. There are a large number of online resources and tutorials that can help you stay up to date and make the overall classroom experience a pleasure for everyone.
1. Keeping up to date with the latest teaching techniques:
As more and more studies are done into effective teaching styles and techniques, we find that there is always a more efficient way to help students learn better and excel at academics. It falls on the teachers to take the responsibility to keep integrating these new techniques into the classroom sessions to maximize the benefits to the students.
2. Integration of technology into the classroom:
Students today are incredibly technologically savvy and the old blackboard method of teaching fails to stimulate them due to the constant influx of high quality audio visual information they are constantly subjected to. Teachers that realize this trend and try to incorporate elements of technology like Audio-visual props to create an immersive environment for their students are more likely to get great results.
3. Extensive research into the subject matter being taught:
Studies show that children can retain information longer if they understand it better and from varied perspectives. Researching topics that are to be taught a bit more in depth allows teachers to understand it more thoroughly, come up with some interesting facts and trivia that can make the topic interesting to students and also help the students gain a more well rounded perspective on the topic from multiple sources rather than just the standard text books.
4. Leveraging social media to enhance education:
Social media like Twitter and feedly and many others allow you to quickly locate and filter through the latest in topics you may find interesting and useful as a teacher and will allow you to stay on top of new trends and topics as they emerge, allowing you to bring fresh and relevant information to your students every day.
Follow these steps and you will definitely notice a marked improvement in the way students respond to your classes and they will have a memorable time and it will be a rewarding experience that will benefit them immensely.