How are the professional roles of teachers changing?
In fact, the thing that has changed the most over the past 100 years is not technology, but children—and they continue to change with each passing decade. The reason for this is the speed of life, the characteristics of the social environment, and the actively ongoing process of globalization. The modern student does not value knowledge so highly - after all, it is accessible and open, you just have to go online. And knowledge is now important only if it can be somehow applied and benefited from. It is very difficult for modern schoolchildren to sit for a long time at a book or think about one problem: they are carriers of clip thinking, perceive information in short fragments, prefer to receive information in the form of a live picture or an understandable diagram.
Sociological studies show that, on average, Russian schoolchildren are now focused on themselves, on obtaining benefits and pleasure from studying - hence greater freedom of behavior and a critical attitude towards the knowledge that school offers. Most modern graduates express confidence that the knowledge acquired at school will not be useful to them in life. In addition, the moral ideals of today's schoolchildren are not at all the same as those of their parents twenty or thirty years ago: now their hero is an independent, successful, self-sufficient person who is capable of ensuring his own well-being. They remember heroism, honor and family comfort less often.
In this regard, the authority of the school and the teacher in the eyes of the student is rapidly falling, and he will not rise unless measures are taken to strengthen it.
“Old” and new pedagogy.
We, today's teachers, have known from our school days the properties of the traditional education system: the teacher's monologue in the educational process and, as a result, the objectification of the student; the requirement from students to accurately assimilate and absorb knowledge, most often within the strict framework of a specific discipline; a strictly vertical relationship between teacher and student, which is built around the idea of control.
Communicate with the child. How?
Yulia Borisovna Gippenreiter is deservedly one of the most popular child psychologists, the author of best-selling books on education. “Communicate with the child. How?" For decades now it has been a reference book for parents seeking mutual understanding and harmony in relationships with their children. Illustrative examples from Yulia Borisovna’s practice, analysis of typical conflict situations and professional advice will allow you to hear your child and be heard by him. A baby who receives adequate nutrition and good medical care, but is deprived of full communication with an adult, develops poorly not only mentally, but also physically: he does not grow, loses weight, and loses interest in life. “Problem”, “difficult”, “disobedient” and “impossible” children, as well as children “with complexes”, “downtrodden” or “unhappy” are always the result of incorrect relationships in the family. The book by Yulia Borisovna Gippenreiter is aimed at harmonizing relationships in the family, because the communication style of parents affects the future of their child!
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Fortunately, not only students, but also many teachers are fed up with this system and are ready to reach a new level of interaction. First of all, conduct a full dialogue with both students and their parents, involving them in the educational process. Then - look at the educational process more broadly, go beyond the boundaries of subject knowledge, value not the accuracy of information reproduction, but the ability to apply knowledge in practice, see various algorithms for solving problem situations. These are the main properties of the new pedagogy. Along with them, the following features can be distinguished:
- mandatory use of modern digital tools and resources inside and outside of school;
- emphasis on knowledge that is applicable in the real world;
- developing learning skills and competencies in students (teaching how to learn), developing the ability to manage their cognition;
- a less hierarchical relationship between student and teacher, aimed at joint exploration, discovery, and search for solutions.
New roles for teachers.
According to the Skolkovo Atlas of New Professions, there will soon be no teachers as we understand them. But a “game teacher” will appear - that is, the teacher will not so much have to stand at the blackboard and check notebooks, but rather develop educational routes, gamify the educational process, making it more exciting. There are other roles that a teacher should master now in order to be “on top” in a few years:
- A teacher is a navigator in the world of information, capable of helping in choosing the most reliable source, isolating the most valuable information from the raging flow of information and turning it into the student’s personal knowledge.
- The teacher is the moderator of educational activities. Choose a form of work, help find project partners, maintain communication between students, parents, and maybe experts, if the educational process requires it.
- A teacher is an organizer of learning, a specialist in lesson design, and an effective manager of the educational process.
- A teacher is a leader who uses time rationally, realistically evaluates tasks, solves them and is responsible. Such a teacher infects with his charisma and teaches by personal example, without forcing the student to imitate himself, but helping him to reveal his own inner potential and character.
We continue to communicate with the child. So?
This book expands and deepens the themes of the author’s previous book, “Communicate with your child. How?”, which became a top seller thanks to its rare combination of scientific depth and clarity of presentation. The new book discusses numerous questions that concern parents: “How to raise him? How to teach discipline? How to punish? How to make him study well? New important details and techniques of the art of effective communication are analyzed and explained.
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New tasks.
Naturally, with the change in role, the teacher will have a whole range of new professional functions. However, many teachers have long been familiar with the most basic of them - for example, helping a student find his strengths and weaknesses, talking about the unknown, creating an educational environment that will allow students to reveal their potential.
The content of the teacher’s activity also changes: the planning process begins to play a large role in it. Teachers are already well aware of the concept of planned educational outcomes - per lesson, per week, per semester or academic year. The main thing is to ensure that the planned results are measurable and transparent.
Another relevant activity for teachers is design. For example, to design any educational activity, you need to go through three stages: determine the planned educational results, think through the learning objectives, problem situations in which you will be immersed with the students, and finally, select the teaching tools. Their role can be played by any resources - chalk and board, or a digital laboratory, or a feeder outside the window, or a website of a scientific organization, etc.
Finally, all teachers have one more task for growth: to find an opportunity to actively participate in the activities of professional learning communities - just do not confuse them with methodological associations! The task of professional communities is to organize the exchange of experience in an interdisciplinary environment. In China, one of the leading countries in the development of education, the level of inclusion in such communities is very high. We have a lot to learn from them: according to an OECD study, Russia is in last place in this indicator.
Perhaps now is the time to establish contacts and cooperate in order to jointly solve the problem of mastering the new role of a teacher in a changing world.
The most important book for parents
This edition includes the bestsellers of Professor Yu. B. Gippenreiter “Communicate with a child. How?”, “We continue to communicate with the child. So?" and the anthology “For Parents: How to Be a Child” - books that have revolutionized the field of education and continue to inspire parents. The author examines in detail the educational norms that have existed in our culture for many decades - and shows why they have lost their effectiveness. Yulia Borisovna proves that relationships can always be improved not only with kids, but also with difficult teenagers - by learning to communicate differently. And gives step-by-step instructions on how to do it. This edition includes the bestsellers of Professor Yu. B. Gippenreiter “Communicate with a child. How?”, “We continue to communicate with the child. So?" and the anthology “For Parents: How to Be a Child” - books that have revolutionized the field of education and continue to inspire parents. The author examines in detail the educational norms that have existed in our culture for many decades - and shows why they have lost their effectiveness. Yulia Borisovna proves that relationships can always be improved not only with kids, but also with difficult teenagers - by learning to communicate differently. And gives step-by-step instructions on how to do it.
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October 5. Lesson at school All-Russian crowdsourcing Internet project aimed at supporting teachers
Every teacher knows: any lesson is like a complex construction set made of many parts.
And it takes a lot of time to fold it. With the help of the “assemble” project, the lesson is now much easier and more fun, and both teachers and students will like the result. Recipe: creativity + technology. The project works in the mode of a library of pedagogical practices, where you can upload your lesson developments and where you can freely choose works proposed by other specialists. The framework of the designer is a textbook paragraph - to each of them you can add the necessary description or recommendation. Our goal is to collect developments for all paragraphs of our textbooks. Webinar about the project
Essay-reasoning “The role of a teacher in a person’s life”
In her text, F. Vinogradova poses the problem of defining the concept of “real teacher” and reflects on the question: what should he be like?
The author examines this problem using the example of a familiar teacher, Natalya Andreevna. Vinogradova draws attention to her stories about the children, their characteristics, which can only be known to an intelligent and observant mother. Frida Abramovna also admires her friend’s reasoning about how a teacher should understand a student and his nature. “How can you work with children if you don’t know them?” - says Natalya Andreevna and leads to the conclusion: “For a teacher not to know his children means to lose his eyes and doom himself to work blindly, without the slightest hope of success.” The author gave us an example of a real teacher in the person of Natalya Andreevna and her individual approach to each student.
The author’s position is best conveyed by the following words: a real teacher not only gives knowledge and evaluates the work of students, but also tries to get to know his students better and educates them.
One cannot but agree with the author’s position; I also believe that a teacher is a person who is capable of supporting his student not only with abstract instructions, but also with concrete actions, like the most sincere friend.
Popular wisdom says: a friend will not leave you in trouble, he will not ask too much.
For the fifth-grader boy from V. Rasputin’s story “French Lessons,” French teacher Lidia Mikhailovna became such a friend. When she found out that the boy was playing chica for money with high school students in order to buy food with the winnings, she decided to send him a parcel of food. But the boy was embarrassed to accept such gifts from Lydia Mikhailovna and he politely refused, returning the box to her. Then she began to play with him for money, deliberately giving in to give him the opportunity to earn a living, although she knew that for this she could be fired from school. Lidia Mikhailovna is an example of a real teacher, whose true role is to help the student in any way.
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Such a rare case is the teacher Duishen in Ch. Aimatov’s story “My First Teacher”. The main character remembers her first teacher, who opened the first school in their village, carried the children there across the icy river, and fought with all his might against the ignorance of the local residents. But the image of a teacher-hero was revealed in him when he saved his beloved orphan student Altynai, whom distant relatives forcibly tried to marry off. He literally snatched her from the hands of her future husband, and later sent her to study in the city. Thus, we see that a real teacher is ready to go to great lengths for the sake of his students.
To summarize, I want to say that what makes a real teacher is not only the ability to teach well, but also the presence of such qualities as: readiness for self-sacrifice and a sincere desire to help the student in any way.
Useful material on the topic:
- Relationship between teacher and student. The role of a teacher in a person's life
- The role of a teacher in a person's life
- The problem of the role of a teacher in a person’s life. There are teachers in every person's life. One teaches literature... Option 14
- The role of a teacher in a person’s life (based on the text by Sh. A. Amonashvili)
- “The role of a teacher in a person’s life” (According to the text by F.A. Abramov)
