Nicola L said:

if teachers roles and responsibilities are looking to change in the future, what sorts of things will change? can anyone help me to find out why this has come about, and where this has come from please? it could be a useful topic for my teaching degree assignment. thankyou to any responces, Nicola.

10/21/2008 3:09:49 PM

Eric Grant said:

Nicola - One example of this change is that technology allows more transparency than ever before (sites like RateMyTeacher allow anyone to comment on the performance of a teacher). And with more transparency comes a push to make teachers collaborate, explain, and perform in different ways. Another way in which teaching is changing is the effect of increasing illness in our population. If many students in a school have childhood diabetes, do teachers need to become experts in personal healthcare? A third example is the way in which students learn. When students have all the world's information available to them through a search engine, perhaps teachers need to change from content experts to information and research experts who can advise students on how best to find their own way.

10/21/2008 3:21:52 PM