UNIT 30 TEACHER ROLES

What are teacher’s roles?

There are different roles in the language classroom when talking about teachers. There also different stages in the class to manage the classroom and to be successful guide for learners through the whole lesson.

The different ways of teacher’s behavior and managing the class are called teacher roles. The different teacher’s roles vary according on the teaching approach on the students learning styles and learners needs.

Here is a chart some roles teachers often adopt

Role	The teacher
1.       Planner	Prepares and reflects on the lesson before teaching, anticipates problems and selects, designs and adapts materials.
2.       Manager	Organizes the learning space, makes sure everything in the classroom is running smoothly and sets up rules and routines.
3.       Monitor/Observer	Goes round the class during individual, pair and group work activities.
4.       Facilitator	Provides opportunities for learning, helps learning to access resources and develop learner autonomy
5.       Diagnostician	Works out the causes of learners for help and active about language.
6.       Language resource	Can be used by the learners for help and advice about language.
7.       Assessor	Evaluates the language level and attitudes of the learners by using different means of informal and formal assessment
8.       Rapport builder	Tries to create a good relationship with and between learners.

 

The teacher’s role must be appropriate according to the learner’s progress. The types of activities that were are going to develop with our students must be according to the syllabus we have and also with the content we are teaching.

To finish a  small comment might be added and that is that as Teachers, we have to help our students in order for them to acquire different knowledge about the second language so they will have a competent communication to use according to their needs.

Source: Spratt, M., Pulverness, A., & Williams, M. (2011). The Teachink Knowledge Tests Course . United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.