A Message to Teachers of the next Generation

Why do you do what you do? Why is it you refuse to acknowledge the higher worlds that these children come from? The children that you have before you here are slowly evolving beings just as you are. Each generation has seen shifts in technological developments and shifts in consciousness. Eg what was unheard of 40 years ago is now part of the norm, the same is occurring now. There are many things occurring on an energy level that we cannot see, but it does not mean that they do not exist. Eg When wireless was first introduced, people found it difficult to comprehend how sound waves actually travelled because they could not see them.

Today’s children carry much of the same unexplained phenomena.....
The children of today are different from the children we were. Teacher’s talk of them being ‘wired differently’, they say students lack concentration, they have greater needs, they lack the respect and manners of their day. You only need to look at the growing statistics in mental illness or nerve disorders in students such as Autism, Aspergas and ADD to notice that the structure of a classroom is no longer what it used to be. This is because as part of our evolution we have increased our use and need for technology. We have increased the use or our intellect and on an energy level we obviously have greater electrical frequencies moving around and within us. This all impacts on the next generation, hence we are left with a classroom that has many special needs because this is what we have created. Our task as educators of the next generation is accommodate this new generation with an education system that is appropriate to the students needs.

All this has lead us to where we are today with education at a crossroads on how to handle these students with their changing values and attitudes. We  feel our world is self-destructing as boundaries deteriorate and the requirements of teachers continue to escalate. Teachers are left disheartened, drained, overworked and tired but this need not be the case. Teachers do not have to carry this dilemma of how to educate the next generation, they must learn to let it go and listen to what they feel is the right thing to do and what they know to work for the students themselves. This confusion and exhaustion that we feel comes from us being torn between what we have been taught as part of the older generation and what we know to work as part of our own evolution but also what proves successful with the students.

Our old thinking has taught us that the teacher is the centre of the classroom and holds the authority and control. This concept of authority does not have to change, but how the teacher holds them does. If we are to be effective teachers for the next generation, we must learn to hold a class through guiding their inner life as much as their outer life. By this I mean, the students learning, being that of their actions, attitude and beliefs, have to come from within them. This can only occur if the teacher guides the students learning experiences where their heart, head and limbs are engaged continually regardless of the subject or content.

Daniela Falecki

www.adolescenttoolbox.com.au