Evolution+of+the+Educator

=**Education has evolved. Educators must evolve to keep pace.** Educators of the future must keep pace.=

In the future classrooms, the educators as well as the learners will be multitasking and technological gadgets will help them in doing so. Educators in 2025 will be expected to accomplish variety of goals with swiftness. Support is needed for professional development and for resources for educators to implement a new kind of curriculum since they will have to play multiple roles. Some of the roles of the future educator are discussed below.



**Educators of 2025 will play the following roles:** 1. **Facilitator**: They will help in developing the learners instead of teaching them. They will set the goals and organize the learning process accordingly. 2. **Curriculum Designer:** Design the curriculum to suit the needs of their learners. 3. **Information Technology expert**: The teachers of future must have IT skills to incorporate as well as manage the technology in classroom successfully. **4. Bigger role in school management:** Future schools will require teachers to be decision makers, PR experts, project-writers to obtain funds for school programs, work in teams etc.

**Characteristics of educators of 2025:**  1. **Strong knowledge base**- To keep pace with the vast amount of knowledge, the educators of future will have to equip themselves with networks that will provide them the latest knowledge of their content area. Then they will have to choose the correct information required by their learners. 2. **Good pedagogic knowledge**- To cater to the needs of different learners and their different learning styles, the educators of future must have sound pedagogic knowledge. 3. **Flexible**- To ensure that correct guidance is provided to the learners, accommodation of variety of learners is taken care of, judicious use and incorporation of different technologies in the lesson plan is done; the educators will be able to accomplish all this by demonstrating lot of flexibility. 4. **Cooperative**- The need to be cooperative with administrators, parents, school authorities and rest of educators will be a must in the future. According to a 2005 Wallace Foundation educational study, successful school leaders influence student achievement in two important ways: the support and development of effective teachers and the implementation of effective organizational processes. (Wallace, 2005). With this in mind, leadership development will be a critical component for future educational success, and identifying key educators to nurture and move forward into administrative positions will help to ensure that these innovations will continue to evolve and be implemented in a timely manner. We delve deeper into these concepts under "Professional Development".