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CHAPTER 4: DESCRIBING TEACHERS

A) WHAT IS TEACHER?

B) TEACHERS AND LEARNER

Teachers Learners

Fasilitator and resource for student to draw

on

Given tasks to work

Need special qualities including maturity,

intuition, educational skills, an openness to

student input, and a greater tolerance

uncertainty.

Student activity taking place (the measure

of a good lesson) not the performance of

the teacher.

C) THE ROLE OF TEACHER

To give

(someone)

knowledge or to

instruct or train

(someone)

Show

somebody to

show

something

To change

somebodys

idea

What isteacher?

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1) Controller

- In charge of the class and the activity taking place.

- Tell students things, organize drills, read aloud, and in various other ways

exemplify the qualities of a teacher-fronted classroom.

- Transmission of knowledge

2) Organiser

- Giving the students information

- Getting student involve

- Telling them how they are going to do activity

- Putting them into pairs or group

- Closing things down when it is time to stop

- Give any necessary instructions when the students are ready for the activity.

- Present instructions in logical order and in as unconfusing a way as possible.

Engage instruct (demonstrate) initiate organize organise feedback

3) Assessor

- Offering feedback on performance

- Correction and grading students in various ways.

- Critical issues here is fairness

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- Have to be sensitive to the students possible reactions.

- Students want to credit for the good performances and constructive criticism

for poor performances.

4) Prompter (starter)

- Encouraged student when they lose the thread of whats going on.

- Or when they unable to proceed.

5) Participant

- Join in the activity not as a teacher and to take part in a discussion.

- Reason : to enliven things up from the inside.

- Caution : since teacher can easily dominate the proceedings, great skill and

sensitivity is needed to avoid this situation ( do not dominate the activity).

6) Resource

- Offer guidance as to where students can go for the information.

- Encourage students to use resource materials for themselves.

- Teachers must be helpful and available.

- Give the student the specific order to find the information.

7) Tutor

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- Working with individuals / small groups

- Pointing them in directions they have not thought of.

8) Observer

- Observe what students do to give feedback.

- Watch to judge the success of the different material and activity that they take

into lessons.

9) Performer

- knowing that different teachers act different style.

- Teachers have their behaviors, gives insight into classroom behavior.

Example activity in class :

Activity How teacher should perform

Team game Energetically, encouragingly, clearly,

fairly

Role-play Clearly, encouragingly, retiringly,

supportively

Teacher reading aloud Commandingly, dramatically,

interestingly

Whole-class listening Efficiently, clearly, supportively

THE TEACHER AS TEACHING AID

- Teacher as a teaching aid

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- Mime & gestures

- Language model

- Provider of comprehensible input ( teacher need to be aware of how much

they are speaking)