5 the roles of teacher
The Effort vs Impact Matrix is a simple yet powerful tool to make clear what all your priorities should be.
participant
is when the teacher is involved with his or her students in the activities planned for the class. This role allows the teacher to interact in the classroom, so that students do not feel that he or she is a distant figure.
Don’t require a lot of effort but neither do they offer many benefits.
able to participate in activities with students or balancing the number of pairs during an activity.
tutor
What the teacher does in this case is to monitor the progress of the students' work, clarify any doubts that may arise, make recommendations, among others.
resource
Another role of the teacher is to be a source of information for students. While it is true that students have academic texts and other sources at their disposal, the teacher also contributes new data while corroborating the information in the books.
Activities that give the best return based on the effort. They are valuable and fundamental to your success. Focus on these actions and complete them before anything else.
readings
instructional materials
include web sites
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controller
During a typical lesson a teacher will have some, or all, of the following roles: The first role is controller in which teachers are effectively in charge of the class and of the activity in a way that is quite different from an activity where the students are working on their own.
Time-consuming activities with low impact that should be avoided.
When it is necessary to discipline the students.
Before starting any activity, when the guidelines of the activity are exposed.
At the beginning of the classes, when the contents to be covered in the lesson are presented.
prompter
In this case, the teacher acts as a teleprompter or prompter, giving key information to students only when deemed necessary.
Provide long term profit but may be more complex to execute.
during oral presentations, when a student forgets the right word, loses the train of thought, or cannot continue with the presentation.
In these cases, the teacher suggests to the student some word or idea that will allow him/her to continue with the activity.
