Post #1 - Inspiring Children to Shape the Future
Inspiring children to shape the future. What does that mean? What does that look like?
Fellow teachers and student teachers, we are introducing a campaign with the purpose of reminding teachers of the crucial role they play in shaping children’s futures and who they become.
Our goal as educators is to create instruction that is good for children. We believe that instruction that is “good for children” is instruction that prepares them for their future. Many things will come into our students lives: testing, new content, new teachers, further education and technology just to name a few. As teachers, we play a major part in helping to prepare students for their future and so it is vital to design instruction that will help them prosper in the future and reach their goals.
Through our campaign there are a few things that we hope to accomplish. We want you to see that instruction truly designed for students does not happen on the fly, but takes thought, time and effort. We want to encourage you to make instruction that is relevant to individual students, their backgrounds, and where they are heading in the future. We want to inspire you to make instruction that grows students as a whole, not just academically.
Over the next few days, you can look forward to getting an in-depth look at what instruction that is good for children looks like, some obstacles that can be anticipated when designing this instruction, and the solutions that can be used for those challenges.