Monday, June 24, 2019

The Characteristics of Motivating Instructors


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.


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