As we can see teaching has not the same influences that it used to have. Furthermore; the changes that our society has suffered had impulse the process of teaching to change.
Nowadays a teacher most has some characteristic, we think that the top 5 of those characteristics are:
*Anticipate for the future
we have to think of preparing the children for the world in which they live and will eventually work, not the current world in which we as teachers navigate.
*Foster face to face communication and also the interpersonal relationships.
Nowadays technology can foster isolation. it is very common that students have 1000 friends on social networks, but they don't know how to be a friend.
We as teachers have to teach and foster those interpersonal skills in the classroom because they will be helpful for our students.
*Can teach and assess all levels of learners.
The 21st century teacher must be a situational leader, he or she must have the ability to assess what level each and every student they teach is and try to bring them to the level they most are.
*Is able to assess effective vs. non-effective technology.
The teacher of the new age will need to be adept in judging the educative and non-educative use of technologies made available to them and to their students at school and at home. The potential downside of technologies is their potential or non-productive use wasting time and resources.
When we were talking about technology a question popped up; WHAT TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS SHOULD BE REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE FOR TEACHERS?
We reach the conclusion that it is not about tools. Tools come and go, but being able to see the forest for the trees is the important.
*It is a long life learner
It´s curious about the subject matter- in our case English.
Interested in student´s world :what they listen to, watch, wear, talk about, etc
Able to reflect on how he or she teaches.
As a conclusion, we think that what makes really different the traditional teaching is what it used to be focused on traditional teaching was just about to each the subject matter, but the 21st century teaching is focused not only on the subject matter but also on developing the others student´s skills like interpersonal skills, development of critical thinking and others.
