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Workshop Plan Part 1

Part 1A: Workshop Details
Title “Role of the Teacher in the 21 st Century.”

The workshop aims at sensitizing new teachers on the changing roles in
the profession. The modern-day teacher has a new role to play in the
integration of technology in the classroom, and this will be covered
during the workshop.

Explanation Teachers will engage in an in-depth discussion on how they think that
technology will impact on their role in the classrooms. The discussion
will be moderated by experienced teachers, some of whom have been
teaching before technology was incorporated into the classrooms, and
after its incorporation. Attendants will also be provided with materials
and resources; these will mostly be online materials. They will take the
materials with them and will read them after the conference. After the
engagement session, there will be two speakers. They will deliver
speeches that will mostly shed light on the changing roles of a teacher,
what to do, and how to adapt as the roles will continue evolving.
Objective/Purpose The objective of the conference is for new teachers who will be joining
the teaching profession to get oriented. The attendants will learn a lot
from experienced teachers, and they will also learn from each other
through open-discussions. Teachers will get tips on how to navigate the
teaching profession, as well as how to tap onto new opportunities into

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the market by advancing their education in fields that will make them
more marketable in the job market. Mainly, teachers will be guided as
they take their first steps into their career journeys.

Target Audience BAE Bachelor of Arts Education

The conference targets Ashford University education graduates in 2020.
Theory Role theory is concerned with patterns of behavior that are prevalent to
groups of people as well as the underlying affective and cognitive
phenomena (Sjølie, 2014). One of the most realistic ways to view
teaching is by looking at a teacher’s professional conduct as the center
focus of their impact in the classroom. Teachers are a group of social
actors whose feelings and thoughts are manifested in their behavior
when teaching. The act of teaching is a complex behavior to study
because of the many factors that influence it; time is one of these
factors. Teachers’ roles keep changing and evolving with time.
The incorporation of technology in the modern classroom has changed
the role of the teacher significantly. Also, the society within which a
teacher operates has also changed. Students have access to the internet
and different technological gadgets. Thus, the type of students that the
teacher is interacting with is different. The subject matter content has
also changed. In real sense, even the individuality of the teacher can be
influenced by all these changes. Thus, through the conference, the role
theory will be explored. Teachers will be oriented on their changing
roles and their place in the 21 st -century classroom.

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Part 1B: Workshop Flyer

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References

Sjølie, E. (2014). The role of theory in teacher education: Reconsidered from a student
teacher perspective. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 46(6), 729-750.