WHO WILL BE THE BEST TEACHER? GENDER-RELATED ISSUES IN TRADITIONAL AND VIRTUAL TEACHING
WHO WILL BE THE BEST TEACHER? GENDER-RELATED ISSUES IN TRADITIONAL AND VIRTUAL TEACHING

Summary/Abstract: Everything is changing around us: circumstances, global environment, people. From the top of the mountain to the bottom of the sea, everything seems to be working right now with the aid of computers. Moreover, everything seems to be happening in a virtual world that can only be described and understood through acronyms and terms whose meaning is hard to grasp by the less „IT-literate” people. In the education sphere, starting from the early pre-school education up to higher education, PhD and post-graduate studies, as well as life-long learning, the advancing technological trend seems to have completely changed the „face” of the teaching process as compared to what we experienced as pupils and students (and by „we”, we mean women in their forties’ or fifties’ working as language teachers in a predominantly adult male environment). The roles of the teacher seem to have evolved from the traditional models so as to cater for the students’ newly reconfigured needs. On-line language learning seems to have shifted the balance creating, or at least suggesting, a different inventory of „hats” that the teacher has to put on in order to acquire and use the necessary’ skills in the virtual classroom.

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