Five Roles For The Interactive Teacher
This education blog entry is devoted to the role of a teacher.
Teachers play one of the most important roles in the course of teaching. Teachers may have different roles: that of a controller, director or a facilitator.
The name itself says that the controller controls everything in the classroom: student’s behavior or what they should talk about and the language forms they must use. But if we want interaction to take place teachers should create an atmosphere in which there must be freedom of expression. However, some control on the teacher’s part is necessary.
The next role of a teacher is the manager, who plans lessons and modules at the same time allowing the students to be creative and imaginative.
The teacher as a director should keep the process of learning going smoothly. One of the goals of this role is to help students be communicative people in real life. This kind of teacher is often associated with the conductor of the orchestra.
The teacher as a facilitator must make the process of learning easier, must help students to be able to negotiate, and have fruitful discussions, thus easily having access to success.
The students and the teacher as a resource exchange their roles. She’s only there for advice and extra information, if needed. Do not confuse this role of a teacher with the one who enters the classroom and says something like “What shall we do now?”
For the teacher as a resource it’s better to take a backseat from time to time and give the students a little bit of freedom: freedom of speech and even a little bit freedom of behavior. This kind of role should’t be practiced very often, however.
One of the important teacher roles is the one that can turn the students from dependent to totally independent persons (with the help of textbooks, class activities and the teacher herself). If you want to enjoy the interactive teacher’s popularity, you must by all means master all five roles.
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