- Why have you joined teaching profession?
- How is teaching profession different from other professions?
- Why teaching should be considered as profession?
- What are key challenges of teaching profession in the country?
- How should we overcome the challenges faced by teaching profession?
The education system of the 21stcentury has substantially changed across the globe due to knowledge and technological advancements. The students ‘interest and needs have also changed. The 21stcentury emphasizes the development of students’ thinking skills, interpersonal skills, information media, technological skills, life,
and career skills which should be integral part of teaching and learning process.
The role of the teachers as facilitator is essential to improve sustainable quality education and integrate technology with teaching learning. A teacher of the 21stcentury is considered as a facilitator, knowledge transformer and digital teacher. Teachers ‘role is not to only facilitate students’ learning but to prepare them for their future life by acquiring critical thinking skills, and creativity. Since teachers’ roles have enormouslychanged, they need to acquire relevant professional knowledge, skills and dispositions to educate their students.
Hence, it is a responsibility of teachers to prepare themselves to teach their students meaningfully. Teachers have to enhance their technological skills to educate their students more effectively. It is the responsibility of teachers to improve students’ knowledge base with conceptual development, application and analytical skills which require teachers to become professional life-long learners and action researchers. It is also the duty of teachers to use multidisciplinary approach to teaching and learning in order to develop students’ holistically. The 21st century demands teachers to be proficient in digital literacy and students as allrounders. Effective teachers are the builders of nation and lifelong learners; therefore, they should keep updating knowledge of their subjects. Effective teachers should develop learning material and use it in a practical way so that the students are able to improve their learning. Teachers also require creating an enabling environment for the students to learn collaboratively. Today, teachers’ great challenge is how to improve their digital literacy and make students as digital literate