The 7 Roles of an Educator - Empowering Stuents to Learn

As a Mediator of students' learning using technology has given the power of learning into the hands of our students and allowed us to create a group of independent learners, peer learners and persons who will be accustomed to working as a team. The ideas that have been put forward show me that I will have to start encouraging my teachers to empower our students.

As a Designer we can create teaching materials that are best suited to our diverse students which will encourage them to learn or as someone stated motivate our students to learn. We can even include our students in creating the same teaching resources that will be used in the classroom which adds to the empowerment of our students in the learning environment.

As an Administrator we should be able to acquire data on our students. Using tools such as spreadsheets and simple databases provides the tools for us to keep track of our students, to monitor them and provide meaningful feedback.

As a Scholar teachers can have access to continuous learning without having to visit a classroom and collaborate with others in the same field all over the world. The Internet and even snail mail (printed magazines) allows us to become lifelong learners at very little or no cost.

The Pastoral role is important because we need to communicate with the stakeholders in a more potent way than just a letter that may end up in a bin in the home or at school. Using visual media such as Skype, YouTube and other online video postings can be a good way to showcase the talents, mission vision and accomplishments of our student and staff to the stakeholders and the wider community.

As an Assessor we could use the technology to make our students' TESTING LIFE more interesting and FUN! Only giving our student pencil and paper tests may work for some learners but many others can be encouraged to excel by using online quiz programmes, online test games, computer programmes that test students and give them instant feedback in a fun, interesting and exciting way is excellent.

As Specialist educators we have access to online databases of research and articles that will assist in improving our knowledge and skills base to deliver education in the 21st Century environment effectively.

I enjoyed reading all the ideas from our fellow students. Looking forward to reading more!!

Michelle C.

Learning Is Fun!!