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Teachers play three roles: managers, professionals and acculturators. Teachers should have awareness of multiculture phenomena in the classroom. Students should respect individual culture and learn from each other.
Teachers play three roles: managers, professionals and acculturators. Teachers should have awareness of multiculture phenomena in the classroom. Students should respect individual culture and learn from each other.
Teachers play three roles: managers, professionals and acculturators. Teachers should have awareness of multiculture phenomena in the classroom. Students should respect individual culture and learn from each other.
Three main roles of teachers have been mentioned in Farrells article
(2011). They are managers professionals and acculturators. As for
the first one, teacher plays the role of a manager. Here it means that a good teacher needs to manage students, class time and class activities. In other words, teachers are just like the whole class leaders, who lead the students to experience all kinds of learning activities in the classroom, by managing interaction between teachers and students, as well as all teaching plans. The second role played by teachers emphasizes the role of professionals. That is to say, teachers need to be very professional about pedagogical theories, teaching strategies as well as some teaching research abilities. What is more, teachers should be good at psychological and cognitive knowledge of students of different age groups such as young kids, pupils, junior and senior school students, etc. Above all, I think that teachers should be role models of their students. In other ways, the teachers keen pursuit of scientific knowledge could positively influence their students to develop rigorous and persistent attitude towards their academic careers. And their positive life attitude is also beneficial for their students to establish active life value. In sum, apart from their parents, teachers could be the most influential people for their students in every aspect. The of accuturator means that teachers should have awareness of multiculture phenomena in the classroom. So, what teachers can do is to foster their students awareness of multi-culture phenomena and provide good learning environment to learners from different cultural backgrounds. For example, English would be dominant culture in most of the classes. However, eastern culture, Muslim and other culture would also exist in a learning environment. So, what the teachers can do is to call the students awareness of the existence of multi-culture, and let the students respect individual culture and learn from each other. This is important for learners in the context of multi-culture. Being a L2WT, I think that I have experienced those three roles while I am serving as an internship assistant this term. For example, before the class I had an introduction about myself and I started to know a little bit about students from their introduction. As time goes on, the students become familiar with me. Then, they start asking me questions about the homework or the due day. Some of the students even text me and ask me to teach them how to do the homework. So, the above examples show that teachers play the role of managers in the daily teaching practice to maintain good interaction with their students. As for the role of professionals, here is another example. Being a teacher, I pay special attention to my dressing. When I go to class, I am very careful with my dressing. As a tutor, I should wear appropriately and be careful about the words I said. In my opinion, teachers behaviors could have potential influence upon their students. So, I pay special attention to my dressing and words to the students. I think this is the essential requirement of professionals.
Meanwhile, I also pay attention to the students mental health. For
example, in the middle of the semester, a few students dropped the class. So, some students did not have a normal discussion group that time. I noticed that a student worked alone few times. When I talk to him, he had no idea about what the discussion is about and what kind of questions he could ask. He looks desperate and suffering. This is not good for his performance in class. Then, I decide to sit next to him and encourage him to join in another group discussion. This has helped the student release his psychological pressure and become active learner. As for the differences between a tutor and an on-service teacher are as follows. Tutors age might be more similar to the students. A lot of my students prefer asking the teachers questions instead of asking me. Also, they think what the teacher told them is correct and a lot of students do not trust what the explanation I gave it to them. They think I am in their age, so they are not afraid of me or have trust on me. They think the class teacher is the person who grades them. So, they trust the class teacher in the better way. For their opinions, I am the person who just helps them with their homework or I am just an outsider observer. I think in the future teaching I need to learn how to become a real teacher instead of a tutor. I will let students trust me and learn more things from my class observation.