Role Model
Students look to Instructors as examples of professional
adults. They often have more contact with their intructors than their own
parents, so it's important for instructor to always reflect a positive
image and teach children things like respect, trust, and
responsibility. A insturctor can do this through his actions and words in the
classroom, leading by example.
Provider of
Information
This is the traditional role of the Instructor.
The Instructor lectures the students on a particular subject, through lessons
that build on students' prior knowledge and moves them toward a deeper
understanding of the subject at hand.
Surrogate Parent
Many students suffer from lack of parental contact at home.
In fact, there are students whose parents leave for work before they wake up
for school, and who return from work after they've gone to bed. Parents may be
either working many hours and unable to be with their children or they're
absent from their children's lives.
As a Instructor, you may find certain students who lean on
you for support and come to you for advice or to share their good news. Positive
adult contact is crucial to raising well-balanced children, and Instructor
are often given the charge of being surrogate parents for their students.
The ability to
develop relationships with their students
The most frequent response is that a great Instructor
develops relationships with students. The research literature agrees with them:
Intructor need to be able to build trusting relationships with students in
order to create a safe, positive, and productive learning environment. For
example, a student in Boston told us that great Instructor are “Willing to
listen to students when there is a problem.”
Patient, caring, and kind personality
Personality characteristics related to being a compassionate
person and having a sensitivity to student differences, particularly with
learners, was the second most frequently reported quality. Again, there is research
to support that Instructor dispositions are strongly related to student
learning and development.
Knowledge of learners
This is a broad category that incorporates knowledge of the
cognitive, social and emotional development of learners. It includes an
understanding of how students learn at a given developmental level; how
learning in a specific subject area typically progresses like learning
progressions or trajectories; awareness that learners have individual needs and
abilities; and an understanding that instruction should be tailored to meet
each learner’s needs. One student eloquently described it as: “The Instructor understands
the pace and capacity of the student.”
Dedication to
teaching
Dedication refers to a love of teaching or passion for the
work, which includes commitment to students’ success. Responses often referred
to loving the subject matter or simply being dedicated to the work. To a
student, this means a Instructor should be “always willing to help and give
time.”
Engaging students in
learning
Students also said that instructor should be able to engage
and motivate students to learn. Researchers talk about three types of
engagement that are required for students to learn: cognitive, emotional, and
behavioral. Survey respondents mostly focused on making content interesting and
the ability to motivate students to learn. A student in Pennsylvania said great
instructor are, “motivating students to
succeed in and out of school.”
Knows both trade and teaching job
Requires careful planning before attempt to present. Failure
results in poor teaching.
Uses understandable language and have command:-
Should explain in as
near the trade terms, avoid difficult
words, should have quality to correct the
language by hearing and verbal statement.
Should be prompt:-
Should maintain
punctuality in all respect
Avoids too much talking:-
Discussion will be
restricted within the prescribed time. Explain to the parts
only.
Controls temper and tactful in avoiding arguments:-
Retains dignity as
an instructor at all times. If unavoidable arguments occur teacher should
tactfully side in open argument to find out actual facts, avoid criticism.
Usually stands while teaching:-
Having
some different opinion about this, teacher can more effectively teach the
subject by standing, may be able to more freely, can use all equipment with
more expression.
Encourage students:-
Students may
do wrong or mistake as they come for learning,
teacher
should praise
his best effort and then point out remedial suggestion.
Avoids playing
Favourites:-
Avoids giving
the work only to intelligent students, treating equally with
all students. Do not make anybody as a favourite.
Avoids embarrassing the students:-
It is advisable to
refrain from watching a student too closely or staring at him while
he is answering a question.
Check himself as
well as his students before condemn the class or
individual:-
Teacher should check
himself at the level of student, then make them perfect through
different projects or jobs.
Gets along with superiors:-
Respect others,
disclose your weakness in front of elders and lay of, get
it corrected.
Give prompt attention to order and request from
superiors:-
Management can be
effective only when there is team work. Rules and regulation instructor has to
set for his own work, then student may follow.
Co-operative with others:-
Do not encourage
non-co-operative with others by himself or student.
Use suitable teaching aids and equipment:-
Failure to use
necessary equipment and material to teach a lesson indicate a lack of knowledge
of the function of efficient teaching.
Use objects instead of illustration:-
Visualisations of
objects are more effective than illustration and can save the
instruction time.
Use right methods in teaching:-
Most practical method
should be adopted for effective teaching, lesson should be arranged in
point-wise and consider students capability.
Get and hold attention of class:-
Without sorting
attention of the class Student will be confused, attention to
be on new ideas. Attention to be maintained
throughout the period by means of telling important points.
Explain new lesson before application:-
Without proper
explanation student may not be able to do.
Give clear out and adequate direction:-
Do not leave the
student before they thoroughly understand.
Answers all learns question:-
Failure creates
dissatisfaction, do not give bluff. It requires better say “I don’t
know, but look it up in the next class or after some time.” Depends upon
impotency.
Put question clearly:-
Question should be
clearly worded and carries only one answer.
Question first, ask for answer later:-
Allow the students
to think over for some time and ask for the answer.
