Tutorial One

Question 1

By providing examples discuss how a teacher can help become lifelong learners?

• At first teaching has to be teacher’s passion. They have to show their student how much fun is learning. Keeping the learning or the learning environment joy and happy should be the first importance of a teacher. When teachers ideal excitement about learning, students will see learning as something positive to be imitated. In turn they will hopefully become life-long learners themselves.
• If we can have “students see our passions – it gives them proof that we enjoy learning.” (Thomas, 2007)
• Teachers have to give their student the opportunity to show their own skill, their own interest. For an example if there is a student who is having the difficulties in speaking but he is very good in drawing. So teachers have to give the opportunity to the student to show his/her talent.
• Moreover teachers have to know more options to engage students who don’t respond to classroom instruction.
• Teacher should teach the ability and aspiration to become a lifelong learner.
• You need to teach your students to start questions or suggestion about a particular topic.
• To be an active investigator will help children to become lifelong learners. The students will need to use a variety of methods to find, collect, sort, and record information.
• Teachers will need to help their students use a variety of plans to study and make information. From their own research they will understand whether the information they have find is useful or not.
• Teacher can help their students by seeing their learning styles, their prior knowledge, and their strengths and weaknesses. This will help their children plan and form their own thinking.
• Teachers have to give their students learning experiences that deal with real world situations. For an example one problem to be solved could be how to help recycle items used at your school. Students could investigate, analyze, and propose corrective measures the school could do to recycle.

      So these types of thing will help the teacher to help become life long learners. 

Question 2

In what ways do you think teaching has become more professional than it was in the past? Justify your answer with examples from the profession?

• I think teaching has become very professional in different ways. The teaching, curriculum, teachers, students, parents, methods, materials and the services etc. has changed a lot. 
• Now the curriculum is not only made to teach the students what the book has to teach. In early days school will make the curriculum according to the book. They will not think about other curricular activities, the life skill that the students will need. Now that has changed. 
• In the past most of the school have unprofessional teachers. There will be no qualified teachers. Most of the teachers who has completed their studying up to grade 7 or the teachers have completed O level. But now there is the qualified and the professional teachers in most of the school. Who has completed their degree, PhD and have experience on teaching. 
• The teaching methods have changed a lot. By discussing, debating, researching, doing experiments, gaming and playing etc. But in the past teaching is only done by the book. It means what has written in the book only the teachers will teachers and the students also learn from only the book. 
• Earlier teaching has done using the voshufilaa or the black board and chalk. There will be one table for a group of students, wood tables and chairs. But now it has changed. Now most of the schools use white board and marker and teach using IT. There will be a plastic chair and a table for each student. 
• Using the internet student can study, do their home works and also do many researches. And the teachers can find the things the information worksheets using the internet. 
• Now there are more workshops and awareness programs on teaching for teachers parents and students. Moreover there are online websites, workshops, discussion forum to encourage the teachers to teach their students in professional ways. 
• In every week there will be meeting in between teachers and parents to tell the parents about their students studying, behavior and the work of the teacher. So that the parents will understand how much their child is studying and the teacher is teaching. 
• In the past students will only go to edhuruge or their island school. But now there are now different learning places, colleges, universities and private school. Because of this their will a challenges in every school, better and better goals in every schools