Chapter 4 THE ROLE OF THE TEACHER

This chapter focuses on the principles that contain the role of teachers, it  describes the changed role of the teacher in a classroom in the different stages of students , when the teacher dominates the learning, students take superficial approaches to learning. Teachers uses active, cooperative, and inquiry learning strategies that promote deep learning in students

Furthermore Weimer suggests some principles to guide the instructor:

Teachers do learning tasks less.  It is important assign to students some of the tasks of organizing the content, giving examples, summarizing discussions, solving problems,diagrams, and charts

Teachers do less telling; students do more discovering. It lets students discover information in assigned readings without presenting it first or summarizing it later.

 Teachers do more design work Teachers design activities and assignments that give students  opportunity to new skill levels, motivate engagement in the content by doing the work of practitioners in the discipline, and that develop self-awareness of their learning of the content.

 Faculty do more modeling. Demonstrate how an assignment could be done. Show them drafts of your articles, notes on your own reading in professional journals; talk aloud as you solve a problem, in the way they develop thinking process.

  Faculty do more to get students learning from and with each other.

Create work for small groups to do in class.

 Faculty work to create climates for learning.Create a climate that promotes interaction, autonomy, and responsibility.

 Faculty do more with feedback., the teacher is responsible in assigning grades, or use other ways of providing frequent feedback

Those principles will help teacher mainly to become a master in the classroom management, but only could be acquired through time gaining experience. 

References:

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