Teaching the Teachers Assessed activity 3.3

Teaching Teachers to Teach

Teacher, take a seat:

Teachers need to be taught. They need to be taught to teach, There are skills that they need to know to effectively teach a group of students, they must be able to communicate and assess their students just to name a couple. The skills will be broken up into fundamental skills and advanced skills.

Fundamental skills:

Teaching for good behavior

Reflective practice

Teaching learning and assessment methods

Introducing observational approaches for research.

These skills are not necessarily to do with IT but are needed to teach a class in general, effectively.

Intermediate Skills:

Concept centered training

Understanding online interaction

Blogs wikis and new media for learning

Communicating in cyberspace

Art and technology

Practical guidelines for using technology tools in the classroom

The intermediate skills are IT based but should be stacked on top of the fundamental skills also.

Advanced skills:

Understanding and evaluating education

K-12 leadership and the education administration curriculum

Ethical administrators

School business manager

School governor planning for improvement

These are all courses which can be taken for teachers to learn how to effectively teach.

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References:

Retrieved from: http://www.mastersinteaching.net/50-worthy-open-courseware-classes-for-teachers.html

Retrieved from: http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/06/33-digital-skills-every-21st-century.html

Retrieved from: http://www.aare.edu.au/publications-database.php/1098/defying-gravity-a-paradigm-for-developing-teacher-skills-and-attitudes-in-cbl-courseware-development