Emerging Qualities of Effective Teaching: Embracing New Literacies

Abstract

In response to calls for changes in teaching and teacher education, the authors propose a framework for change called the Emerging Qualities of Effective Teaching Continuum. The continuum integrates critical components that identify the movement of education from a teacher-centered focus toward a focus in which teacher and student work together to shape the learning process in a technologically enhanced world. This new focus requires both students and teachers to embrace new literacies that have been reframed for the demands of a global context.

Key words:

• advocacy
• collaborative learning
• educational change
• educational technology
• effective teaching
• leadership
• learning
• new literacies