Educational Practices

Educators in this society come in all shapes and sizes but are also individuals, whether it is on a personal or professional level. A competent educator is an individual that has the support of their administrators, peers, and in many cases, parents and other responsible adults. Many educators that I consider as competent Educators are individuals that understand the following:

• Teachers are professionals at all times.
• Reflective thinking is essential to student and teacher learning.
• Learning guides teaching.
• Teaching is a moral activity based on an ethic of care.
• A deep knowledge of subject matter is required for effective teaching.
• Collaboration and collegiality are essential to learning, teaching, and life in a democracy.
• And that teachers are aware of themselves as members of a world community.
• Will keep abreast of changes and continue efforts in revising, planning, and seeking assistant from all types of sources that can enhance opportunities of personal and student learning.

As a competent educator, developing a genuine focus on treating students as individuals rather than as homogeneous groups is more important more than ever nowadays. Educators must realize that instead of maintaining a fixed view of what all students want or what all students need, flexibility is a tool that can assist these individuals in their efforts to create environments that enable greater choices in learning styles for individual learners.

In looking at the various types of learners in various types of Educational communities, individuals may interact, respond, or perform in many different ways than their peers, so, catering to the many diverse learning styles and ability of each learner is definitely needed. And in looking at various types of instructional modules, making this and other determinations of how many types of learning styles should be considered, an effective teacher would more than often feel competent enough to employ these and other skills in selecting the best possible material available.

The Education environments nationwide, especially K-12, has developed a need for more quality skills and knowledge in teachers. Many policy makers and Educators believe that by improving teacher quality students’ level of learning will increase. This may be true for some learners, but there are several types of learners that possess different approaches to obtaining knowledge and building skills. Competency is not only a quality that teachers need in order to cater to a much broader audience of learners, but it is something that has to be improved by administrators and other stakeholders.