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The definition of a teacher? I had to write when I saw the title of this article, as this is one of the questions that I was asked at the beginning and at the end of a Masters degree program I took here in Colorado and the answer I have to that question continues to evolve and change over time. When I first started the program, I saw a teachers role as mostly that of educator- we were there to teach children the skills they needed to navigate their worlds. In the beginning I defined those skills mostly as book skills, however, a teacher is also there to teach our children life skills, resp...
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