21st Century Teachers

The video I chose to watch talked about how teachers in the 21st century need to learn new ways of teaching students. An example it gave was how a college student was struggling to learn the material in class and asked her professor to change his approach in how he taught but wouldn't consider it and just went on with the same lectures as always. Another was a little girl wanted her dad to be able to see her do show and tell so she asked if she could use Skype during it, but the school had it blocked.

One thing the video kept repeating was "we need our teachers to learn." At first I thought it meant students need teachers so they can learn new things, but the more I thought about it I think what it was really saying is students need teachers to learn new things so they can teach students. Students learn so differently in today's time with all the advances in technology. It is up to teachers to explore different methods of teaching to find what works best for the students in their classrooms. I think many teachers today have trouble with this because many just teach the way they were taught. If we really care about the students though, we will find a way to break the chain of the everyday teaching and teach the way students really need us to.