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The 21st Century Teacher

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Teachers and the future

Knowledge was conceived of as something developed and known by experts, which could be passed on from teacher to student or manager to worker.

It is no longer possible to predict what knowledge people will need as they move through life. To support their ability to develop new knowledge learners need to become self-reliant, critical and creative thinkers; to be team players; to learn to use initiative and to engage in ongoing learning

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Catalysts
Counterpoints
Casualties

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Teachers and the past

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Scoileanna Scairte

'What the utilitarian primness of the new system feared most of all was the spectre of the teacher as an imaginative adventurer, as a storyteller, as an accomplice of the seductions of song and verse, and literature and drama'.

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Teachers and the present

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As the most significant and costly resource in schools, teachers are central to school improvement efforts. Improving efficiency and equity of schooling depends, in large measure, on ensuring that competent people want to work as teachers, that their teaching is of high quality, and that all students have access to high quality teaching

The Standards may also help protect education against the abuses of the 'charismatic' image of the good teacher where politicians in search of publicity throw untrained youngsters into very difficult teaching situations on the Hollywood principle that natural talent will triumph in the last reel

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We know that good teaching has the power to transform the lives of children. Good teaching contributes to the well being of the nation by building a fairer and more knowledgeable society

...invest in developing their teachers as reflective, accomplished and enquiring professionals who have the capacity to engage fully with the complexities of education and to be key actors in shaping and leading educational change

it needs to change because some despite some strengths in current provision there is widespread consensus that it is not of sufficient high quality to serve the needs of Wales either now or into the future

Wales needs Teachers who

• have high expectations and a commitment to the achievement of all pupils
• take responsibility for innovations
• are able to use and evaluate different sorts of evidence relevant to the improvement of practice

Despite evidence of excellent programmes and innovative practice it is clear that there is significant public concern regarding the variability in the quality of teaching in Australian classrooms and the effectiveness of the preparation of new teachers for the profession

Wise educational judgement is never a repetition of what was in the past, but is always a creative process that is open towards the future for the very reason that..each moment in the practice of education in which judgement is called for, is in some respect radically new and radically unique.

If we recognise this as being at the heart of educational process and practices then... we need teacher education that is neither orientated towards evidence nor towards competence, but towards the promotion of educational wisdom.

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