The document discusses the role of teachers as knowledge workers. It states that teachers' main capital is knowledge, and that they must engage in non-routine problem solving requiring creative and critical thinking. It argues that today's teaching requires teachers to constantly advance their own and their profession's knowledge by interacting with a wide variety of information sources. Teachers must become lifelong learners to keep up with the constantly changing information landscape. The document lists qualities of knowledge workers as continuous learning, autonomy, innovation, productivity, being an asset, and prioritizing quality over quantity. It identifies key roles of knowledge workers as brainstorming, focusing ideas, identifying new trends, and analyzing data to find relationships.
The document discusses the role of teachers as knowledge workers. It states that teachers' main capital is knowledge, and that they must engage in non-routine problem solving requiring creative and critical thinking. It argues that today's teaching requires teachers to constantly advance their own and their profession's knowledge by interacting with a wide variety of information sources. Teachers must become lifelong learners to keep up with the constantly changing information landscape. The document lists qualities of knowledge workers as continuous learning, autonomy, innovation, productivity, being an asset, and prioritizing quality over quantity. It identifies key roles of knowledge workers as brainstorming, focusing ideas, identifying new trends, and analyzing data to find relationships.
The document discusses the role of teachers as knowledge workers. It states that teachers' main capital is knowledge, and that they must engage in non-routine problem solving requiring creative and critical thinking. It argues that today's teaching requires teachers to constantly advance their own and their profession's knowledge by interacting with a wide variety of information sources. Teachers must become lifelong learners to keep up with the constantly changing information landscape. The document lists qualities of knowledge workers as continuous learning, autonomy, innovation, productivity, being an asset, and prioritizing quality over quantity. It identifies key roles of knowledge workers as brainstorming, focusing ideas, identifying new trends, and analyzing data to find relationships.
The document discusses the role of teachers as knowledge workers. It states that teachers' main capital is knowledge, and that they must engage in non-routine problem solving requiring creative and critical thinking. It argues that today's teaching requires teachers to constantly advance their own and their profession's knowledge by interacting with a wide variety of information sources. Teachers must become lifelong learners to keep up with the constantly changing information landscape. The document lists qualities of knowledge workers as continuous learning, autonomy, innovation, productivity, being an asset, and prioritizing quality over quantity. It identifies key roles of knowledge workers as brainstorming, focusing ideas, identifying new trends, and analyzing data to find relationships.
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WELCOME
TEA C H ER A S A K N O W LED G E W O R K ER
The main capital of knowledge
worker is the KNOWLEDGE. The knowledge worker can be differentiated from other forms of worker by its emphasis on non-routine , problem solving that requires a combination of convergent , divergent and creative thinking.
The kind of teaching needed
today requires teachers to become high-level knowledge workers who constantly advance their own professional knowledge as well as that of their profession. To be an effective teacher in this century, teachers need to be able to engage and interact with a wide variety of information from an ever increasing range of sources.
Teachers today need to
become lifelong learners in an information society where information or knowledge flows freely, is instant and infinite. For occurring this, Teachers and Students alike need to develop strategies for engaging, working and constructing with New knowledge.
Knowledge workers must have the
following qualities 1 :Continuous learning 2 :Autonomy 3 :Innovation 4 :Productivity 5 :Asset 6 :Quality over Quantity
Knowledge Workers Role.
1 : Ability to brainstorm, thinking broadly {divergent thinking} 2 : Ability to drill down, creating more focus {convergent Thinking} 3 : Identifying and understanding new trends of teaching methods. 4 : Analyzing data to establish relationships.