Administrators often ask how to best utilize their staff meeting time to promote best instructional practices and improve professional development.
It has been said that once teachers start teaching, we become the most uneducated of professionals about our own profession, failing to research and implement the cutting-edge best practices that make the difference in student engagement and learning. We can’t use 20th century practices with our 21st century students.
In order to encourage and even demand curiosity, creativity, learning, sharing and growing in our students, we must model those traits within our own profession; a staff meeting is the perfect time to cultivate these skills within and among our colleagues.
This article i am going to talk about today is about teaching and education in the 21st century. First of all, I agree with the writer that 20th century practices cannot be used with 21st century students, because they are the one who will benefit from it and support the future, and this plan is only foolproof if the students comply.