TECHY --- the teacher in AP!
The 21st Century Social Studies Teacher
Students nowadays are learners that depend much on the convenience of the technology which reflects to what kind of education system we are having today.
These are the common setting of a teacher today:
Has a computer device which he or she is using in class.
Fond of utilizing social-media platforms.
Work with the students and co-teachers off the field and online (or in the internet)
He or she can source information within the reach of his fingertips (in just one click)
Records data & information such as grades, information sheet of students and teachers' stuffs.
Those listed activities of a 21st Century Teachers now are teachers of Social Studies. They collaborate with other people through the advent of technology, they teach and motivate students with the use of social-media platforms. These things define an effective Social Studies Teacher or an "Araling Panlipunan" (AP) teacher.
Students of today's generation, they learn from doing, from experiences and from a real field of work. As what Benjamin Franklin said, the late president of the United States and a Philantropist, a lover of humanity, he said — "Tell me and I forgot, Teach me and I may remember, Involve me so I may learn."
