ELT task on "Role of teachers and learners"

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Here I present characteristics on What is role of teachers and learners. Here I discussed briefly about ELT task on Role of teachers and learners.  This task given by Vaidehi Hariyani Ma'am. This task is very interesting.

One of the most pure and deeply inspirational relationships is that of a devoted teacher and a willing student. In teaching and learner apptitude we can see that a Learner and teachers are someone who is consistently learning and teaching. We all are the learner and teachers are some or the other time in our daily life. To be precise, a learner and teachers a particular time is that person who are learning and teaching about a particular subject.

For a decision maker, it is important to know the learners and teachers characteristics. It can be essential to know what factors affect their learning and teachers. Learning can be described that the process of acquiring new or modifying existing knowledge, skill values, behaviour and preferences. And The role of a teacher is to inspire, motivate, encourage and educate learners. Learners can be of any age and from any background. However, for the purposes of this guide, teachers refer to those who educate young people of school age. Teachers serve many roles within a school environment.

Learning is strongly based on the intellectual level, cognitive ability, perception, personality and attitude of a learner. As individual many factors affect the learning of a person. They are bound to get influenced by the social arena, cultural habits, and willingness of a person to adopt change.

The ability to forge a positive, powerful relationship between a student and teacher may seem like a difficult task first but can be easily accomplished by creating a strong learning environment. The learning is not a one way process alone; an effective learning environment is where all individuals involved learn from each other. While students learn a particular subject from a teacher, the teacher learns how to improve her teaching skills and make the lessons more interesting by gaining insights from the students. Thus, both parties learn from each other.

Many qualities define a positive relationship and pave ways on how to create powerful student teacher relationships. These can be seen to include good communication, a safe learning environment and mutual respect, a positive and patient attitude, student equality and timely praise. The teacher who becomes the ‘favorite’ is one who possesses these in good measure.

Not all students are alike. While some quickly grasp the concepts taught and take an active part in the learning process, others may be shy, uninterested or even downright disruptive. This puts additional responsibility on a teacher to create such an atmosphere which is conducive to an interesting learning process. It’s the teachers who are like sculptors and students, the soft clay, ready to be molded into a master piece. As Aristotle once said “those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”

Learner characteristics can be described as measuring the characteristics of learners such as behavioural nature, attitudes and psychological towards everything related to learning.

Although great teachers may also possess a number of other wonderful qualities (like a sense of humor, personality, flexibility, kindness, leadership, classroom management, a calm demeanor, experience, and the ability to multitask), these are the qualities the best teachers universally possess.

So I am given some characteristic about 'The role of English teacher':–

TEACHER AS A LEARNER:

Teaching and  Learning is  a  continuous process  and  wherein strategies may  differ  with the moving generations. Though we  find  many  changes  in the  education  system,  the role  of  a  teacher  will  remain  the  same  but  with slight changes. The  teacher’s job  is  to  convince  the  student  that  education  fulfills  the  need  and  learning  in  the classroom.

  A Teacher has to think from the learners’ perspective before she plans to interact with the students. When a teacher plans with the learners’ perspective and  starts  teaching,  students  can  receive  the  information  without any  hesitation  in grasping the things. 

TEACHER AS A FACILITATOR:

It is  very  significant that  students  should  sense that  their  teachers are concerned about them and  thus teachers should become  the  best  facilitator  to  the  students  in  all aspects.  As  a  facilitator  she  has  to  direct  and  support  students  in learning for themselves as a self-explorer. Teachers should develop the best learning environment which reflects the students’ life in  societal,  intellectual  and  linguistic  occurrences. As a  facilitator  a  teacher  should  lay  a  strong foundation for  their personal growth.

TEACHER AS AN ASSESSOR:

As  a  Teacher, assessing  is one  of  the  important  tools  for  extracting  students’  knowledge  by  giving  continuous feedback. Teacher’s  role  is not  complete  just by teaching  a  lesson. Assessing is  the  effective  tool  for making students learn perfectly. A Teacher before assessing a student has to first assess their own conclusions, as to what extent a student will  be  benefited  with  their  correct  assessment.  These  assessments  can  be  carried  out  through  verbal  feedback,  by conducting quizzes, by giving some tasks etc. An assessment makes a teacher to plan for her future teaching techniques and in guiding them to master their language. 

TEACHER AS A MANAGER:

Teacher’s role  as  a  manger  is  a very significant  and  imperative role  in managing a  class. A Teacher has  to  plan well in advance regarding handling the classes within the stipulated time, covering academics as well as interpersonal skills with various teaching techniques which is obviously a path to practical approach. An experienced teacher can manage the timings according to  their  own experience. Perfect classroom management  by a  teacher using the  major mechanisms will lead to success of teaching-learning methods. 

TEACHER AS AN EVALUATOR:

As  everyone  is  aware  that  evaluation  plays  a  prominent  role  to  a  teacher’s  success. Evaluation  is  a  subjective process, which is related to academics. Teacher has to be an effective evaluator while evaluating the  student. True and fair evaluation should be done by a teacher in order to do justice to a  student’s career. A student has a wide scope of learning through the mistakes committed. As an evaluator a student should also be focused on the areas of  competence rather than on the weaknesses and every student should be adhered to positive expectations. 

So, Teacher  plays  diverse roles  in English Language Teaching (ELT).  Some  of the  roles  where  a  teacher  performs when dealing with the students are as follows - learner, facilitator, assessor, manager and evaluator. By performing various roles, she becomes an ideal guide in shaping their future. 

Then second one I am given few importance characteristics of 'The Role of English Learners':–

(1) Learning involves change:

It is a reconstruction, combined thinking, skill, information and appropriation in a single unity process.

For example, when a child learns to read they can retain this knowledge and behavior for the rest of their lives. It is not always reflected in performance. The change from the learning may not be clear until a situation arises in which the new behavior can occur.

(2) All learning involves activities:

These activities involve either physical or mental activity. They may be simple mental activities of complex, involving various muscles, bones, etc.

So also the mental activities may be very simple involving one or two activities of mind or complex which involve higher mental activities.

(3) Learning Requires Interaction:

At the time of learning, the individual is constantly interacting with and influenced by the environment. This experience makes him change or modify his behavior to deal effectively with it.

(4) Constitute Learning:

To constitute learning, the change should be permanent. Temporary changes may be only reflective and fail to represent any learning.

(5) Learning is a Lifelong Process:

Learning is a lifelong process of gaining and using the information presented to a person. It is not static.

A person never stops acquiring new information. It keeps a person’s mind active and aware but also conscious of the world around them.

(6) Learning Occurs Randomly Throughout Life:

Some learning occurs randomly throughout life, from new experiences, gaining information and from our, perceptions, for example: reading a newspaper or watching a news broadcast, talking with a friend or colleague, chance meetings, and unexpected experiences.

(7) Learning Involves Problems Solving:

Learning involves problem-solving i.e. understanding and discovering relations between different contents in a situation.

(8) Learning is the Process of Acquiring Information:

Learning is the process of acquiring information, knowledge, wisdom, and skills. It occurs as a result of interaction with the person’s environment.

(9) Learning Involves far more than Thinking:

Learning involves far more than thinking: it involves the whole personality – senses, feelings, intuition, beliefs, values, and will. If we do not have the will to learn, we cannot learn and if we have learned, we are changed in some way. If the learning makes no difference it can have very little significance.

(10) Experience is Necessary for Learning:

Some sort of experience is necessary for learning. We can get the experience from direct observation or from formal approaches to learning such as training, mentoring, coaching and teaching. We can get the experience from direct observation or from formal approaches to learning such as training, mentoring, coaching and teaching. If we compare the simple ways in which a child feels and behaves, with the complex modes of adult behavior, his skills, habits, though, sentiments and the like we will know what difference learning has made to the individual.

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