Transforming teachers - Tony Ryan

This was an interesting and thought provoking presentation about the role of the teachers.

The key question is not: What do we need to teach?
The key question is: Who do we need to be?

Tony spoke about the next eight years as being the most crucial in human history, the need for people who are solution-focused and the need for people who believe they can make a difference. Hence the use of the term transformational teaching.
Tony's four roles for the transformational teacher, all starting with "E":

• The Energiser
• The Ethicist
• The Entrepreneur
• The Environmentalist.

What follows is a snapshot of some of his ideas and questions.

The Energiser

• Your thinking is a critical influence on your physical / emotional / spiritual energy.
• Teaching is a mirror – your attitude is reflected back to you.
• How and when do you get ‘energy’ from in teaching?
• What are your reasons for being involved in teaching?

The Ethicist

• Factors that have created an ethics focus in education: -
• increased focus on emotional intelligence,
• virtual environments that test the limits of human values,
• societal / political responses to some Net gen children.

The Entrepreneur

• The rise and rise of creativity
• Educational Intrapreneurs?? (Working from within the system)
• New thinking on learning delivery e.g. innovators who provide online and off line learning to a community / business groups
• The promotion of innovative classroom practice!!
  

The Environmentalist.

• Implement the 3R (reduce, reuse and recycle).
• Live a carbon-neutral life
• Become a carbon neutral school
• Include an enviro-focus in every study
  
  
  Links
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