Is the Great American Teacher Dead?

Teachers worldwide might be facing a sort of death because the world is, in part, dying as well. I refer to the actual times, where the ghost of death, desolation, loneliness, and lack of hope fill the spirits of millions of people. COVIT 19 has closed theaters, museums, stadiums, institutions, and schools.  Now they teach through a screen, all day sitting, looking at their students without felling the worm closeness.

I am a heart teacher, as every mother is.  But I have also worked as a teacher.  It is not only a lovely demanding profession but an especial mission that deserves the most attention and care because we are responsible for making the students learn whatever is necessary to accomplish this relevant part of life, that are the basis of the future.

But I am a student as well.  I think that teachers have to have unique tactics, knowledge, gift, background, and capacitation.  They have to prepare exciting and enjoyable lessons for the student to make them think, wonder, analyze, search, get wise conclusions, grow as a person, and encourage their spirits to open their mind.  In other words, prepare them to rule their lives and the pathways of countries, yet they will be the future governors.

Dirks said, "Transformative learning experience is one where "we are left with the feeling that life will not be as it was before, that this experience had created a sense that we cannot go back to the way we were before the experience"

So I wonder how this transformation will be after this time, where teachers and students are not allowed to have excellent and worm relationship.  Not even the teachings are what they are supposed to be. Clear, energetic, passionate, interactive as it used to.  They are facing interruption, disconnection, although an internet connectedness.

Indeed the world has changed. It would never go back to how we were before, there is a transformation in everything, so my questions are.  Are the students supposed to have another spare change? Will they support it?

I think that the title of this post should instead be:  Is the Great American Student Death?


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  1. Igualdad de género24 de septiembre de 2020 a las 17:59

    Undoubtedly times have changed and they have done so in a very dramatic way, it makes us think that learning will never stop, when it is believed that everything has already been learned, the world and its changes tell us that it has not. With this pandemic, many of us have been forced to get along with technology, and seeing the positive side of things makes hope for a better tomorrow exciting and possible. Thank you for your words and for calling me to reflect on how to be able to have an approach with the students even through a screen.

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  2. Jen14 de octubre de 2020 a las 8:26

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  3. Jen14 de octubre de 2020 a las 8:28

    This is thought provoking! I appreciate how you've shown that technology and becoming "connected" has actually made us further apart. There is convenience, but some things are sacrificed for that accessibility. My mom used to caution, "Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater!" As we discard the old way of doing things and incorporate new methods we need to be careful not to lose the best parts of what we had.

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