part B intergration Final

An ideal teacher is the one who embraces changes that the 4th industrial revolution has
already brought to lives and classrooms, teacher knowledgeable with various disciplinary
techniques used to discipline learners such as calling learners for one on one to discuss
the causes of immoral behavior. Furthermore, ideal teacher embraces teacher-to-teacher
relationship as it helps to ensure that teaching and learning is effective, welcomes
learners’ prior knowledge, critics of content being taught by creating a healthy
environment.

We live in a 21st century the world is changing, so are the instructional methods. Given
UMQHELE COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL context, which has resource most importantly,
the school needs teachers who embrace the changes 4IR has brought into our
classrooms and into life in general. This helps learners to gain adaptative expertise,
innovative approaches and skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration
and emotional intelligence so that they can survive in this Artificial Intelligence era. This
also encourages the use of current technological developments such as smartboards,
various applications (Edmodo) used to make teaching and learning easy yet effective. It
needs teachers who will work on teaching the kind of learning children need for tomorrow.
In this regard creativity, innovation, critical thinking and problem solving which are
executed as 21st century skills are focused on through innovative and self-organized
learning environments that are deliberately and mindfully created.

One of the things that we have observed is that the schools’ weakest point is discipline,

learners do as they please. Given that the schools are no longer using corporal

punishment, teachers are experiencing a challenge when it comes to discipline. That is

why it needs teachers that will see the importance of working on welcoming parents and

communities as equal partners and work to include their engagement in teaching and
learning through constant communication and feedback as it improves not only learners’
behavior and attendance but also positively impacts the learners’ achievement. Teachers
who will encourage parent’s involvement in what happens in the school, at home and give
parents feedback either positive or negative, that relates to the learner’s behavior as well

as progress towards achieving educational objectives. Teachers will have to give parents

the platform to share ideas that can be use by everyone involved to overcome challenges

and improve the process of teaching and learning such as getting private tutors for

learners who struggle with the content or allow teachers to offer extra classes during/after

school hours or even weekends

We believe that sharing of information helps in the process of learning therefore, we work
hand in hand with other teachers to solve problems, share teaching methodologies, ideas
and strategies, given that the school has many learners and cannot be taught by just one
teacher. We can say that the school experience has taught us to be lifelong learners,
courageous to take risks, to try new and innovative methodologies and pedagogies that
make teaching and learning to be at the cutting edge of the field of study. We regard
ourselves as innovative teacher because, we listened, shared information read and
always learned, we moved away from our comfort zones and avoided using a routine in
the teaching and learning process and brainstormed ways to make the learning process
better and the school needs these kind of teachers who will work together on teaching
and learning irrespective their areas of specialization.
The school is really experiencing challenges when it comes to literacy that happens
through content and language integrated learning. Learners are struggling in literacy and
it affects their learning process, there a teacher that will create assessments of each
subject that will require them to write and use language, give them feedback and always

correct them in a way that they will be able to learn from their mistakes and improve on
language.

The school needs teachers that know that the work of learning extends outside of the
classroom, a teacher that knows that learners can deepen their understandings through
peer sharing, engaging with members of the community and with experts in the field both
physically and through technology, a teacher that will get learners out and about, provide
them with challenging, exciting and different experiences to aid the learning process, to
also help improve engagement of all groups of learners. A teacher that will not restrict
learning, that believes that learners should have access to frequent, continuous and
progressive experience everywhere may it be in the classroom or outside the classroom.

The school needs a teacher that will create a positive learning environment that promotes
and encourages learner’s engagement and see the two as important aspects in the
process of teaching and learning. A teacher that knows that questions are used to
provoke learners to engage effectively in teaching and learning without the fear of being
wrong or judge based on how they interpret things. A typical teacher that will
accommodate learners’ failure and use it to achieve educational objectives through
clarifying misconceptions, rewarding and acknowledging learner’s contribution in the
lesson by giving positive feedback to learners’ answers e.g. your answer is partially
correct, can someone add what he/she left out or a round of applause.



In conclusion, the school has a very healthy environment suitable for effective teaching
and learning, has modern technologies that complement the change that the 4th

industrial revolution has brought into our classrooms and most importantly it is
accommodative to us as ideal teachers as we were able to adapt to the schools’

context.