Teachers for the Future:

Blind Luck or

Purposeful PlanningFrom the perspective of

Maggie NiessOregon State University

This was me thinking about the topic on Monday

After attending many of the sessions

How a person learns a particular set of

knowledge and skills, and the situation in which a person learns, become a fundamental

part of what is learned.

~ Putnam & Borko, 2000

i.e.,

Teachers tend to teach what they were taught and how they

were taught

Life is too short for long division!

Teachers must be charged with rethinking the curriculum

given the impact of technology on what is

important to know and be able to do in the 21st century.

If we teach today as we taught yesterday,

then we rob our children of tomorrow.

~John Dewey So, teachers must be charged with changing how they guide students in learning the new curriculum

(the pedagogy).

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

~Abraham Maslow

Teachers must charged with changing along with the evolving technologies that they integrate when teaching

the new curriculum incorporating new and emerging pedagogical ways.

No one ever said teaching was

easy.

Why do we act as if it is?~ Maggie Niess

Subject Matter

Technology

Teaching and Learning

And then we HOPE!

Hope is not a strategy.

~Thomas McInerney

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but

those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

~Alvin Toffler

What we want for our children...we should want for their teachers, that

schools be places of learning for both of them, and that such learning be suffused with excitement,

engagement, passion, challenge, creativity, and

joy. ~Andy Hargraves

New thinking that brings an end to business (teacher preparation) as usual

~Paul Resta• Change the school/teaching culture -

– Accept that teachers need to learn as they teach … daily

– Provide teachers with the infrastructure to support them in this new role (technology, time, resources, …)

– Support teachers in learning, unlearning and relearning

The future is already upon us, it is just unevenly

distributed. ~ William Gibson

• Teachers as mentors and professionals collaborating across traditionial barriers– Their classroom doors– Their school doors– Their district doors– Their state/geographic region doors

• Create, share, exchange ideas that begin erasing the knowledge divide– Collaborations of teacher educators, teachers, preservice teachers and students

The future is already upon us, it is just unevenly

distributed. ~ William Gibson

• Foster public/private partnerships – Businesses have a stake in the products of education

• Proactive role in reducing the barriers that isolate and discourage teachers from trying new ideas

• Others.. For you to envision!

Not possible?

• Wrong!• Begin with pilot projects• Make use of online learning - continue to build and expand the projects

• Make use of blogs, wikis, …• Collaborate across traditional barriers– Partner preservice teachers with multiple cooperating teachers - one locally, others at a distance

Hope is not a strategy for making

this change.

~Thomas McInerney & Maggie Niess

It can be done

If we are to meet the needs of the students of the 21st

century!

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Subject Matter

Technology

Teaching and Learning

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