Beautiful how Yvonne Hagenaar in her blog 'Good teaching' in the breach for 'the' teacher.According to Hagenaar, teachers are people with an ideal: teaching, transferring knowledge and sharing knowledge. That makes them happy. Hagenaar looks back almost nostalgically to the days when teachers could simply do what they had become teachers for: Transferring their knowledge and expertise by teaching large groups of students face to face, preferably on a blackboard with a piece of chalk.Hagenaar is clearly less enamored with all the educational innovations and technological developments that teachers are being harassed with these days. For example, she calls the recent proposals of the Education Council "a possible attempt to gain some publicity once again under the guise of 'necessary renewal'...nice nostalgia...but that doesn't make for good teaching.A good teacher does indeed -as Hagenaar outlines- have a passion to share his knowledge and skills. But a good teacher will also always be open to new ways and opportunities to share that knowledge! Of course, there are some teachers who can tell such beautiful stories from their passion for their subject that they can captivate students for more than half an hour. But as a teacher you really need more than passion and a good story to really teach your critical young audience.I have been teaching teachers and trainers the use of online learning tools for 20 years now. Replacing teachers with online learning tools is not the goal here. Rather, it is about giving teachers more tools and opportunities to share their knowledge and expertise. Better and more enjoyable teaching is the goal.Don't get me wrong. Teacher-student contact still leads to the best learning outcomes. But that doesn't require locking them in a classroom together for an average of 6 hours a day without digital learning tools. Or are we also going to ban the Internet, digital content and computers in the classroom again?That's not good teaching, that's stupid.
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