Dr. Kurt Hochenauer posts a blog called OkieFunk. In his posting titled, "Kern’s Deceitful Bill Makes It Through Committee," I was inspired to consider what I believed to be the teacher's role as an educator. The bottom line for me turned out to be that teachers should be "guides to the gathering and dissemination of knowledge--not the dictators of it." Does this picture of a teacher fit what you think and believe? Or how does your idea of a teacher differ?
So, you've heard one of the important roles that I think teachers fulfill. Do you have others? Please share them.
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Thanks for commenting. You have some valuable information to share, and I'm glad to hear it.
Many instructors have developed their own opinions about things, and you're right, that's what they generally share. Some are more blunt about it than others, and that's their right. But you are absolutely right about more than one window being presented to children and about children needing to be taught to look at the bigger picture, gather comprehensive and deep data, process, and ultimately come to an insightful decision/action. I hope all teachers will work to help children learn to learn, not just learn to put forth an opinion they got from someone else.
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