Beyond the traditional teacher roles, a classroom full of more sophisticated and technologically competent kids expect more from their teacher
There’s no question about it, the teacher of today cannot be the teacher of yesteryear — which makes teaching in today’s classroom tough even for the most experienced teachers.
That expectation involves teachers constantly shaping their lessons to accommodate metacognition — the process by which students learn to think about thinking. It’s about teaching students how to examine the information they take in, how to process that information, then how to do that more proficiently.
Pedro Arrais’ recent Islander story about a teacher working with students “at the intersection of artistic creativity and STEM ” is a perfect example. The best science teachers were always the ones with some real life science experience in one branch of science of another during which they learned to think like scientists.
21st-century teachers will teach content differently. The day of the disintegration of subjects will be replaced by an approach to curriculum that recognizes the interconnectedness of content areas or disciplines by demonstrating a knowledge of their subject as it relates to other disciplines and beyond that relating global awareness of the subject.The kids in the classrooms of 2024 are not the kids of 1995.
In her new book, Generations, Twenge names the current classroom generation “iGens” for their ubiquitous use of the iPhone.
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