The Profile of a Modern Teacher

I saw this great infographic posted on the Wayfaring Path blog, and I think it provides a lot of stimulus for thought and reflection. It covers issues of learning technologies, of course, but also much more within teaching practice. I’m not sure I can hold my hand up proudly and say that I do all of these, certainly not all the time, but they are all things I would say I would hope to do and hope to develop. Some are scarier than others and I imagine different teachers are going to have very different ideas of which are the difficult ones.

This all came about through browsing sites and Twitter feeds that had been using the #makeschooldifferent hashtag – a rallying call to develop new ideas in teaching that also came with a challenge, the task was to list 5 things they felt we needed to stop pretending about in education. I think there’s much we need to overcome so I was very interested to hear what other educators felt were the things we needed to stop pretending about.

Five of mine would be:

1. Stop pretending there is still a divide between the analogue world and the digital world.

2. Stop pretending that it’s ok to not ‘get’ technology.

3. Stop pretending that tech use is an end in itself rather than the tool it really is.

4. Stop pretending that low level factual learning is more important than deep level skills.

5. Stop pretending that things will ever come to a stand still.

What would yours be?