Future role of Teachers
At different times and in different parts of the world teachers have had the role of being disseminators of literacy, guardians of culture, vicars of morality, architects of the good citizen and agents of the Gods. In more recent times, schools have been allocated the task of achieving social equality, overcoming material disadvantage and eradicating prejudice. Teachers and instructional designers need to be capable of diagnosing the needs of the individual learner and knowing how to meet these needs when discovered (Wood, 1995). Teachers have many strong traits that can enhance education greatly: 1. In the lives of their students, teachers often achieve an influence beyond the intellectual knowledge they impart. Adults often look back on a teacher who had an inspiring and positive effect on their lives. 2. Human teachers can make decisions that might be difficult for a machine. For example, a computer can judge grammatical integrity in a paper, but evaluating the worth of original ideas is impossible for today’s machines. 3. Many teachers are extraordinarily creative and develop new and better ways of teaching. 4. By their presence, teachers stress that learning must be integrated into a world populated by people, who are intelligent and have feelings. 5. Teachers, by helping students to understand and accept each other, can ease problems that often develop. 6. Teachers can be the role models that children need.