How does a teacher learn?

The Daily Riff presented a blog entry Ask a student, how does your teacher learn?  which explains that teachers today are found everywhere thanks to the internet which becomes personalized.  But as the article states, designing your own education or curriculum isn't easy.  But having the internet at our fingertips with educators is great because it is often "how-to" which according the the article, the author doesn't believe that is happening in our schools today.  I might have to disagree - I mean yes, it isn't done in every lesson, but it is certainly happening.  You can not possibly teach a math class and assume that just because a child can add, that they also know how to multiply.  Not at all, you must pave the path in how-to's an build their education based on what they already know.  But then he continues and makes a really great point :

This is not to suggest that the content in our classrooms is no longer important, or that the adult in the room isn't still a critical part of our kids' learning or their social and emotional development.  I want my kids to be in places where they are cared for, where they are supported and encouraged by people whom they look up to, respect, and trust. There is no question that "teachers" still have a lot to offer my children. But those "teachers" now need to be experts at only one thing, and that is learning. They need to know how to help kids become those self-directed, literate learners who can ask meaningful questions, probe difficult problems, separate good information from bad, connect safely to strangers online, and interact with them on an ongoing basis. And, most importantly, our educators need to be able to do this themselves.

I really liked that he addressed that teachers need to be experts in learning.  Teachers need to constantly update what they know and continue to educated themselves and their students.  Teachers need to not only teach classroom materials, but encourage students to be responsible, sociable, literate, and the list goes on.  It is true in my eyes - an educator is an educator far beyond subject matter.