Adam Saleem                Dip.tch.(s) Jan.2005

MULTIPLE ROLES OF A TEACHER

INTRODUCTION

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eaching is the activity of causing students to learn something. (That is, teaching is the activity of facilitate learning.) If we define teaching as transferring knowledge, excellence in teaching is excellent dissemination of knowledge. The quality of teaching will then depend on the quality of the knowledge transmitted, and the way it is transmitted through syllabus design, readings, handouts, and lectures. Most of the cases in our society in teaching are based on transferring the knowledge only. Defining teaching as facilitate learning it implies that while considerations of knowledge transfer are no doubt important. They are valuable only in relation to the quality of learning that they trigger. If the teaching activities do not result in learning, there has been no teaching. Likewise, if the learning is lacking in quality, the teaching is unsuccessful to some extent. Finally, there are modes other than that of knowledge transfer which can play a more effective role in the triggering of learning. Hence, an excellent teacher needs to go beyond excellent lecturing or excellent knowledge dissemination. So it is obvious that an effective teacher must have multiple roles in the teaching profession. This paper outlines the multiple roles of a teacher and how well it can be implemented, (using a 2 questioner, in appendix 1, I have assessed the difficulties and roles) the shortcomings and solutions of these problems.


MULTIPLE ROLES OF A TEACHER

According to the two interviews I had with the two teachers, I found that some of the teachers are finding it difficult to deal with girls. One teacher has said that it is difficult to understand the feelings and behaviour of girls. Others find no difference in dealing with different sex of the students. A teacher has reveled that there are some differences between boys and girls, like concentration to the lesson while the other finds no difference in it.

Both the teachers I have interviewed have agreed that there is no difference in the abilities of the students of different sex, but they agreed there are students of different abilities irrelevant to the sex and they have found some ways to help the weaker students. Both the teachers also agreed that there are differences between the students of different social background and others and they said that social and family background of the students are very important and it influences the student.

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School culture and administration, according to one teacher, helps and give moral support to the teachers to teach their best. The other teacher doesn’t find any importance of dealing with the administration. Commonly both the teachers have said that there is no importance of dealing with the community. This is one of the aspects that show the teachers are lacking some of the important roles with the community. It could be the relationship between the parents or within the school staffs.

At various times I have heard the role of a teacher likened to one of the ...

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