Importance of Teacher Roles in the Classroom

Study the Teacher Roles in Module 2-The Teacher (Section 2.2.). Consider these 5 roles: Assessor, Controller, Manager, Materials Producer and Motivator. Write a paragraph on each of these 5 roles, describing, in your own words: 1.why you think this role is important within the classroom setting. 2.what might happen if the teacher is not proficient in the role. Paragraph length: 75 words maximum Total length of assessment answer: 250-400
words 2.2 The Range of Teacher Roles So, here is a list of the additional roles and activities you'll be involved in and responsible for. You may have picked up the skills necessary for these roles already in another job or activity, so that experience will serve you well. If not, you should consider delving into these areas before you take up your teaching post. Our course will help you with some of these personal and supervisor type skills in some areas, e.g. assessment, motivation, planning and you'll likely have friends who use other skills in their job and can help you. A good book on general supervisor or management skills will also be of benefit, as will the Internet. The majority of inexperienced TEFL teachers setting out for their first teaching post have given no thought to this. Perhaps their course did not make them aware of this. It's then a severe shock to their system when they realise they're unprepared in some of these skills areas. It's critical that you do some research into some of these skills areas if you feel you haven't had experience of some of them before. The key thing is that we have now made you aware of this and you know what you have to do! Typical roles you will be involved in: Assessor: assessing progress, correcting errors, diagnosing what needs to be done in follow-up lessons Controller: ensuring that, at particular times, the whole class is tuned into what needs to be done, e.g. starting off a new activity, and ensuring that classroom order is maintained Facilitator: stepping back and allowing students to find their way along the language journey, whilst still monitoring and motivating as needs be; knowing what facilitation really is Guide: guiding those who are unsure of what to do Manager: ensuring all the nitty-gritty elements that underpin a successful lesson are carried out, e.g. giving effective and coherent instructions, arranging the most effective seating, ensuring instructions are carried out as planned, and that tasks are completed as planned Materials producer: producing more appropriate and often better materials than the course book offers Monitor: monitoring what's going well and what's not going so well and deciding what needs to be done in a feedback session later Motivator: motivating some of the students who may not be so keen on the activity or who may be tired or are thinking elsewhere, perhaps due to the stresses and strains of life outside the classroom Needs analyst: listening to learning needs expressed by the learners. This seldom happened in the past in a mainstream English class in the UK. Planner/organiser: setting out the roadmap for the lesson and organising all the tasks and activities for all the learners Sometimes, many of these skills and roles are required in the one lesson. The ability to seamlessly master the skill of multi-tasking will make the lesson more fluid, more effective and more enjoyable .