Role of a Teacher

Management

Parents

Government

Community

Students

Advisor

Counselor

Mentor

Teacher as mentor

• Examine the role of a teacher as an advisor to the parents, community and government

• Group task!

Mentor for students

• LISTEN to students • HELP them understand • Come to realization about the need for

work • ENCOURAGE to explore on their own

• Feed them all the information • Dictate on how to go about with a task

QuestionHow important is it for students to be emotionally safe in a classroom? How might this influence their level of motivation in wanting to work on a task?

Safe Classroom?

Self-esteem

• Helps students to bounce back after failure

• Take up challenges outside their comfort zone

• Appreciate small successes• Strive for highest level of personal

potential

Motivation

• intrinsic vs extrinsic

When students like the teacher better response to their needs more intrinsic motivationReinforcement positive reinforcement leads to better response

How to motivate students?

Tangible extrinsic rewards “do significantly and substantially undermine intrinsic motivation”

- Koestner and Ryan (2001)

Negative effects of extrinsic motivation can be minimal and prevented in applied school setting

Cameron (2001)

Autonomous

motivation (choice)

Controlled motivation (pressured)

vs

Achievement motivation

• Attribution theory of motivation – (Weiner 1986)

• People seek to explain why they have failed or succeeded. – Situational cues– Prior beliefs– Self-perception

Task

• Brainstorm in groups.• Make points on how to motivate

students to appreciate their own achievements

• Present to the class

Teachers can…

• Use encouragement rather than praise

• Help students to think about their

learning process

• Use small heterogeneous groups

• Use cooperative learning than

competition

• Help develop realistic goals for students

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