Responsibilities of a Teacher

My colleague's blog contains this clip, and I have watched it a number of times and decided to add it to my own blog.

I've seen so many teachers walk into a classroom and not even look up to see who the students are. They teach the lesson, walk out and the is no connection between the students and the teacher.

So when there is talk of students who have become unmotivated, then my question lies with the methodology or the approach of the lesson. In other words, the teacher. We have all had our fair share of 'undesirable students' but I think those are the ones who can help us become better teachers... they make us study ourselves and our methods and ultimately help us change to become more aware.
The problem lies though I think is with the teachers who don't want to change and don't want to examine their own methods, it is at those times I think that the students suffer the most.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that, it should be our philosophy as teachers to not worry so much about the content of what we are trying to teach, but instead what we want the students to learn and how best to help them learn it. It has to come from them. They sometimes can't tell us what their needs are, but if we learn more about them, we can learn more about how to help them discover who they are. I guess what I really want to say is from the video and what Sir Ken Robinson taught me, was that I think if we focus on the students' needs and get to know our students more, then we can begin to understand that they can teach us to become better teachers, so that we can help them become more prepared for the future. Their future. And if we do that, everyone wins.