Change In Teacher's Role and Learner's Participation

Role Of Teacher

Among the greatest of all services that can be rendered by men to Almighty God, is the education and training of children, so that they can foster by grace in the way of salvation, growing� like pearls of divine bounty in the shell of education and will be one day the jewel in the crown of abiding glory.

Traditional Role :

Teacher’s Role as instructor as based on concept of  Knowledge. Teacher was a Dominator.

Modern Role:

1.       Dominant information feeder  to a facilitator.

2.       Concept of knowlwdge as  process of reasoning.

3.       Adaptation of Instruction to developmental levels.

4.       Monitoring students

5.       Resource providers

6.       assess the students

7.       plan the learning.

8.       implement the plan

9.       evaluate the process.

10.   opportunity for experimentation without evaluation, grading or marking.

11.   Adopting Holistic Approach

12.   Freedom and Control

13.   Optimal Learning

14.   A Motivator and encourage feeder

15.   Moral Development

16.   Thematic teaching

17.   Facilitative Teacher as Mediator : The function of techer as mediator is to promote students confident adaptability by enhancing their security and making them aware of their own powers and their own worth. The teacher in modern scenario would strengthen the confidence of the students in their own capabilities.

18.   Emphasis on learner’s initiative

Learner’s participation

Learning is acquiring new or modifying existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information. As far as learner is concerned even bad times have their scientific values and a good learner never miss it.

1.       Profound faith  in capable of solving problems

2.       persistent in examining their own assumptions

3.       Learning from the experiences and interests

4.       Interaction with other

5.       Pair and group activities

6.       Learning by doing

7.       irrevocable resolution to every problem

8.       Ability to take constructive criticism

9.       show initiative

10.   able to monitor and evaluate their own learning

11.   self-aware in relation to their own learning

12.   adaptable and flexible in their approach to learning

13.   pro-active (i.e. they don’t wait for things/people to come to them)

14.   critical and analytical thinker

15.    filtering and selecting the needed information

16.   learning as pleasurable

17.   Goal-oriented

18.   Practical

19.   Competence and mastery

20.   Learning by experience

21.   Responsible for Self

22.   Need for Community.