Key roles of teachers in new normal education

With the advent of this global pandemic and most of the time encountering several multiple crises in response to the call in delivering quality education, we might ask, appreciate, and realize what it means to be a teacher.

Confronted with many school forms to fill out, stress and fear coupled with the slow internet connectivity and technology access, teachers remained to be an unsung heroes in the midst of this pandemic.  

We may be thinking that teachers are just masters of the educational standards and classroom rules, but the roles of the teachers in the core of this epidemic are highly valuable and helpful.

Here the top 3 roles of teachers in this new normal education:

1. Teachers play as a team player

Teachers of these trying times worked closely with their professional learning community team members and performed as volunteers to fight against the spread of the virus which mainly caused the shift of the current educational course.

Instead of thinking for a teacher-driven discussions with lengthy lectures, these were no longer available in this moment rather online learning, self – learning modules (SLM) and other blended learning modality were highlighted.

With the cooperation and consorted effort of other stakeholders, teachers innovated and created self-learning modules or even online lessons to cope up online tools and resources in order students would be up for an exciting learning process.

2. Teachers cultivate student’s motivation

Since no one is exempted from this pandemic and students may feel bored and skeptical to this new normal, teacher’s role to motivate students shouldn’t be underestimated for students must be trained to organize things and make changes.

Even with this virtual reality where up close and personal association is restricted, teachers really find time to generally contact students during the time allocated for them on the existing calendar and give students attainable goals. This is one thing where teachers will be able to use technology to connect with and work with students, while motivating them to do so is another matter. 

With the advances in learning technology during the current COVID19 epidemic, teachers and students are fully prepared to continue the learning journey at home.

3. Teachers act as innovator of change

As the teachers, parents, and students are facing a very different context now in terms of the educational standards, this COVID-19 pandemic has forced education innovation into the heart of almost every education system around the globe.

To answer this, teachers no longer have to focus on how to link innovations to a frontier at the heart of the education system, but how to change education systems so that they address diversity, support source, innovate that will provide all learners the necessary skillsto create a better future for themselves and their communities.

Conclusion

As challenging as that dictate was, it represents possibly the best-case scenario in what’s proven to be an incredibly inequitable landscape during the pandemic, but has resulted in at least one positive thing: cooperation between and among the key persons in the pursuit of serving the best education to the learners despite of this pandemic.

The key roles of teachers are vital to the growth of learner’s educational development, be it virtually or even online. ###