The Innovative Teacher

There are many opinions on what an innovative teacher and learner are. From my perspective I see an innovative teacher as a teacher who wish to make the best out of the students by using theories and methods to help them as best as he/she can. To become this innovative teacher I think it’s important to see every student as an individual person. Therefore it’s very important to me to use Dunn & Dunns theory about different learning styles, where the focus is on the individual's natural or habitual pattern of acquiring and processing information in some learning situations. Dunn & Dunn theory is that there are four different learners: visual, kinesthetic, auditory and tactile learners. But even though I think that is important, I can also see it can be difficult to have 24 students in a classroom where some of them are learning best by see the things, and therefore being visual learners and others are kinesthetic learners, whom are getting knowledge by doing a physical activity.

To make lessons where you are considering all learning styles does also mean that you as a teacher should have a lot of knowledge and interest for the subject which you are teaching to be able to think of other than only the traditional learning method, where the teacher is standing in front of the blackboard and the students are sitting on their chairs and only working in their books.

In Denmark we have something called “Fælles Mål” in every subject we teach. In mathematic is says that the teacher have to have make differentiated tasks for the individual student, so that we can develop our students' personal, academic and social skills and in the end we can create the best possible foundation for individual learning for the students.

To sum up what I believe an innovative teacher is, I see an innovative teacher as a person who thinks that’s important to think different theories, methods and techniques to get the best of every student.