Teachers in Adult Community Education (ACE) aka LearnLocal, are often delivering language and literacy programs to people with not much prior education.
What do you think are the most important skills for teachers working in the LearnLocal sector, or who are teaching adults in general?
(Please add your thoughts via the comment section below.)
What do you think are the most important skills for teachers working in the LearnLocal sector, or who are teaching adults in general?
(Please add your thoughts via the comment section below.)
There are articles online suggesting
that teachers these days need a huge range of skills with technology, on top of their already enormous and well-documented matrix of educational abilities.
I have been trying to build up a list that makes sense for teachers in LearnLocal organisations. The more I think about it, there's a lot of complexity. It's not easy either, to say whether some skills are fundamental & others more advanced. Should social media and web applications go in the fundamental list these days?
Fundamental
Fundamental
- Basic operations & interface
(turn on machine, open applications, work keyboard-mouse-touch-windows etc) - Word processing
- Project screen from one device to another
- Search and navigate the web
- Manage files & folders
(across multiple file locations inc usb, LAN & cloud) - Find resources & learning activities on the web
(and adapt for your learners) - Build a presentation
- Work / play with a range of devices
(including photocopier, scanner, camera, iPad or tablet, smart phone, television, data projector, audio recorder, laptop / desktop computer, )
Call for help when you need it - (eg IT department)
