CHAPTER THREE
The Role of the Teacher
In this chapter I learned that the role of the teachers
is very important because they are the facilitators to teach well to the learners, so
they are very essential
for learners. As I can notice in this chapter teachers play different roles
such as planner, assessor,
monitor, manager
and so on, but these roles teachers use depending on the lesson, because these
are designed according learners needs, class size, students motivation and
ability, and their learning
styles. Furthermore,
teachers are like guides,
coaches, and
midwife because they are guiding others, they say, model and give clues about what they have to do. In order to the
role of the teacher can be guiding, here we have a set of principles that
teachers do when they teach. First, teachers let students do more learning
tasks. In this principle teachers should not always be organizing the content,
generating examples, asking/answering questions, and solving problems, so
teachers should give the opportunity to students to do this kind of activities
in order to they practice and improve they knowledge. Another principle is that
teachers do less telling so that students can do more discovering. In this part
teachers always tell students what they have to do, like for example; help to do
the homework, the reading, etc., teachers should let students to discover it by
themselves. Finally, in order to apply this I as teacher must avoid helping
students all the time, I must let them to discover the things by themselves. For
example, as teacher I always monitor and guide them in order to they will do
their activities in a correct way.
- Killion, J. (2001). What works in elementary schools: Results-based staff development. Oxford, OH: National Staff Development Council.
- Marzano, R., Pickering, D., & Pollock, J. (2001). Classroom instruction that works. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.
I totally agree with you, because teachers must be not only as the persons who teach, but also an effective teacher must know how to guide students and how to make more meaningful the students' learning process.
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