Many nurses with years of nursing experience behind them are turning toward the next stage of their professional medical careers – as nursing educators. Access to the digital Education Amplifier classroom on Edmodo, with lesson plans, teaching tools, and templates to use in your classroom. Hence, language exploration and learning directly arises from students’ actual needs and not as suggested in textbooks. Identifying barriers to learning is one of the most important things we do as educators.
Once the summer workshop is over, Cooperative teachers enter the second phase of the Cooperative: monthly meetings in schools all over the city and online conversations. A teacher is “one that teaches ; especially : one whose occupation is to instruct” versus an educator, who is “one skilled in teaching : teacher” I agree with Timmy that these two definitions don’t really distinguish between the two well enough.
Committing to ongoing professional learning. When someone is hired to teach a class, someone other than a traditional college professor, they often learn through practice and time what works well in the classroom. Technology and new learning styles are continually changing the higher education landscape.
Microsoft offers a comprehensive e-learning curriculum, 21CLD, to help educators prepare for this rigorous exam. Teacher professional development should be viewed as an absolute necessity not only for professional reasons, but also for moral reasons as well.
Learning can be a structured discovery process, offering students varied learning outcomes – just as our situations and decisions later in life offering different outcomes. Cons: The community is not free, and educators must pay for each resource that they use rather than having an open library.