The age of the teacherpreneur

 Are you...?

Congrats! You're a teacher!

I decided to start this post after reading one of a series of articles that aim to brief us on a new professional that is supposedly taking the classrooms by storm:

The one I read (link above) comes with the title "How teacherpreneurs spread good ideas" and as much as I loved the ideas presented (yes, we need teachers who are never daunted by the difficulties or limitations they face and make learning meaningful for their students by going beyond the physical boundaries of the classroom), the topic got me thinking:

 

Wanna learn? Be a teacher!

This forum thread started by Eleni Politaki drove home a truth we sometimes forget:

By teaching you get a chance to see if you have really learned

It also reminded me of the importance of challenging yourself. When you push your limits, or raise the level of difficulty of a task, you are bound to get much more out of the learning experience. A point that is stressed in the growth mindset versus the fixed mindset concept.

Genise White shared this idea in a nice image:

The video validates the ideas we tossed around in the thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brpkjT9m2Oo

This MOOC is YET another opportunity to be challenged.