ABSTRACT
The author suggests that we need teachers who are prepared to step back just a little bit more from the teaching and help the children get on a whole lot more with the learning. Research from the National Center for Voice and Speech in the US 'tracked' the voices of 57 male and female teachers, not only in their classrooms but until ten o'clock at night too and at weekends. The researchers' main concern was our 'vocal folds tissue', which is on the end of the vibrations from our speech in the same way their hand is on the end of vibrations from a 'jackhammer'. Lazy teacher is all about giving the learners as much control as possible over their own learning and letting go a whole lot more yourself, from planning lessons to communicating tasks to being the one main source of learning in the classroom. Which is where technology and, yes, Google comes in.
