About the Book

Changing Role of Teachers in Education

Traditionally, teaching was a combination of information-dispensing, custodial child care and sorting out academically inclined students from others. The underlying model for schools was an education factory in which adults, paid hourly or daily wages, kept like-aged youngsters sitting still for standardized lessons and tests. The day-to-day job of a teacher, rather than broadcasting content, is becoming one of designing and guiding students through engaging learning opportunities. An educator's most important responsibility is to search out and construct meaningful educational experiences that allow students to solve real-world problems and show they have learned the big ideas, powerful skills, and habits of mind and heart that meet agreed-on educational standards. Together with the changes, new expectations appeared towards our schools. Nowadays schools need to teach their learners how to gain information and how to select and use them. This happens so quickly that students learn how to use the Internet together with their teachers. Parents are involved in decision-making so they take part in the life of the school. It is no longer enough to send the kids to school in the morning, pick them up in the afternoon. Parents have to have a view of what is happening in the educational institution. Exam preparation is still important, but for example in Hungary the entrance exams are 'past tense', the final examinations (matura) have changed, and the concept of learning to learn has slowly become a very important element of the teachers' job. This book discusses the changing role of teacher in the digital age. It highlights various issues and challenges faced by teachers and suggest suitable strategies to meet them. CONTENTS : (1) Introduction to Teacher (2) Changing Role of the Teacher (3) Teacher Provision and Management (4) Teaching Skills (5) Government E-Resources for Teacher Education (6) Teacher Education at Different Levels of Education (7) Changing Teacher Roles, Identity and Professionalism (8) Integration of ICT in Teacher Education.