User:CAROL OYTHIVA A/sandbox

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21st Century Teacher
We are leaving today in a world of breath-taking change. The pace of this change is threatening and uncomfortable, especially because it is so difficult to keep pace with. Yet change is an inevitable part of life, affecting every fibre of our being and education is a vital area which cannot escape change.

The kind of students that we encounter in our classrooms today, are a generation of young people bombarded and influenced by the media – a world of sound, colour, moment and action, of vivid details and graphic description that arrest and sustain their interest and attention. Several of our students today come from disturbed homes and family backgrounds. They are evidently more curious, more knowledgeable and better informed because of great exposure to the media and they are also characterized by a kind of restlessness which demand a constant change of activity. These being the kind of students we encounter today, it is evident that our approach and our interactions, our teaching methods and techniques all need to change. Teachers of the new millennium can no longer be content with being mere imparters of knowledge as in the past, but we are now facilitators of learning, teaching students the skills of assessing and retrieving information, guiding them to valuable sources of knowledge, nurturing them chewing and imparting values through the process of teaching. A value based education has always been a vital need of any society and the dream and vision of every true educationist. Remember, “Our children of today will shape in the new tomorrow. On the values we inculcate in them today, will depend the future of the world”. Therefore, I would say that we teachers are co works workers with God, invited by him, to be a partner with Him, in the great and beautiful work of moulding and shaping the young and growing minds, entrusted to our care. What an honour! What a privilege! And what a responsibility!!!!!!