A Teacher’S Primary Role Is To Coach And Facilitate Student

According to Wormeli (2014) " teachers need to know that motivation is something we create with students, not something we do to them. We can control student's behaviour through rewards or threats, but we can't use those methods to motivate that student to do anything he or she doesn't already want to do".(pp. 26-31).

Academic learning must begin with motivation and inspiration. Students deserve an educator's passion for both the subject at hand and learning as a whole. Teaching and learning become a simultaneous journey for both the teacher and students when students' energy is aroused by a teacher's genuine intensity for learning, because everyone is ready and willing to participate in active learning. To achieve active learning, a teacher must demonstrate enthusiasm and express confidence in the students' abilities to learn and be successful. Employing constructivist methods of teaching in one's classroom forces students to take an active role in their education by making choices and assuming responsibility for intelligent inquiry and discovery. For instance, discussions, projects, and experiments ensure student achievement and allow students and the teacher to discover individual student's preferences and strengths. This approach facilitates differentiated activities for each student's distinctive ambitions, making the subject more relevant to every student's life.

The concepts of motivation allowed me to understand each of my students on an individual level as well. Not all students are motivated the same way and learning new ways to motivate first graders that are not, “if you do this, you will get a prize” changed my classroom environment. I used strategies like goal-setting to get my students motivated to do well on their assignments. When they saw the growth they were making it was pushing them to do better. They didn’t need to get something in order to do well. The satisfaction in seeing their growth gave them motivation. I am hoping that by starting them out with this strategy young, stays with them as they move on to the upper grade levels.

Students have their own best way in effectively learning the lesson. With the diversity of students, the problem is each student has a preferred learning style. It becomes undeniably one of the reasons that make it difficult to achieve the best expected outcome out of teachers’ effort. However, teachers try to incorporate various teaching techniques to make every learning opportunity become productive, meaningful, and relevant for the learners.

This assignment is aimed to highlight the Roles and responsibilities of a teacher and the importance for a teacher to be aware of the legal aspects of teaching inclusively and to follow all current legislation and codes using the teaching/training cycle, a cycle of assessment, planning and review/evaluating.

Any student can learn the mere content that is lectured by teachers; however, it takes a truly determined individual- a student who is striving for success- to understand the deeper meaning of the material: the ability to “think critically”. It takes a great level of maturity to apply an education to one’s daily life, which is a characteristic I can truly say that I obtain. To me, balance and discipline are two key factors in life. Whether this is academics, sports, or extracurricular activities, I ensure that I give 100% in everything I do. I know there is a much greater impact on my life when I give every ounce of effort I

This standard is to take advantage of a variety of teaching methods, provide instruction that will help increase students’ development of critical thinking and problem solving. When I become a teacher, I will strive to serve in different roles to provide teacher centered as well as learner centered instruction by taking advantage of different teaching methods and making the content more meaningful as well as accessible for every student.

In Ganah’s article (2012), motivation is stated as “essential for successful learning as less able students who are highly motivated can achieve greater success than more intelligent students who are not well motivated” (p. 251). I believe this author described motivation dead on. For my students in their Special Olympic competition, motivation was key. We as their coaches along with their fellow athletes stood at the finish line whether it was on the track or at the end of the pool, we stood cheering for them and they would run faster, swim harder, or work harder to finish. Just like motivation is key for the athletes I worked with, it is also key in the classroom. In the short essay, Motivating Factors in Child Learning (1937), the author gives us many factors that can influence a student’s motivation. Although this article was written many many years ago I can see the relevance in some of the methods. In the article I read about how a student’s emotions can effect how they learn (Mast, p.3). This was found true in my students. My students would have off days just like myself and any other human being. We modified their classwork on their bad days so that they could still accomplish some task but they were able to do it in their time. Helping my students was my ultimate goal and so modifying their classwork so they still complete some work only helped

The greatest struggle in our educational system is the lack of educators that are willing to activate the students’ interest in the subject. Instead of increasing the students’ motivation to learn, students are being presented with material that is meaningless to them. I believe that effective teaching starts by presenting students with material that seems relevant to them. Presenting fresh ideas to students increases their motivation. Breaking the monotone routine makes students willing to explore new content. It is the teacher’s responsibility to provide students with some motivation that augments the students’ willingness to learn a topic. Learning is a step by step process that will not occur over night. This process requires great effort from both the teacher and the

As I observed in a ninth-grade English class, I found that there were several different types of students. Several of the students were very eager to learn, attentive, and thoughtful. They raised their hands, asked intelligent questions, and completed all assignments to the fullest of their potential. A few other students were very outgoing and outspoken. They were eager to answer questions, but they didn’t put forth the effort required to master the subject. These students performed adequately well; however, they progressed more slowly than did the more passionate students. Finally there was the group of students who make learning more difficult for others by interrupting or disrupting the classroom discussions. I believe implementing an effective classroom philosophy or philosophies can successfully reach, to some extent, each of these types of students in a way that enables them to grasp a specific topic and utilize it in their future educational endeavors.

As in every profession, roles, responsibilities and boundaries are set in order to define the line indicating the acceptable limits.

“Since a learning style is an effective and efficient modality in which a learner has a natural preference to perceive, process, store and recall new information, necessitates a shift from the traditional large- group teacher- centric lecture method to an interactive, small group student- centric approach incorporating various teaching-learning strategies. Since students possess a wide diversity in learning styles, teachers should combine different educational strategies to meet the varied learning preference of students”(Prithishkumar, 2014). Teachers knowing the learning styles of their students can help them to plan the appropriate lessons necessary for learning. Students on the other hand, being aware of their learning styles that work best for them will definitely give them the courage use that strategy to be successful

Motivation matters. Motivation is a characteristic that not every pupil has. In fact, according to the National Research Council report on motivation “Upwards of 40 percent of high school students are chronically disengaged from school,” meaning only sixty-percent or less actually are engaged (Crotty par. 3). Without motivation throughout school a student is at a high risk of dropping out,“on the other hand, students who are motivated to learn have higher achievement, show better understanding of the concepts they are taught, are more satisfied with school, and have lower dropout rates” (Crotty par. 5). In other words,

First of all, we will consider the very word motivation. Motivation can be defined as an incentive. When we discuss students having the motivation to learn, we may consider them having the incentive to learn. Do students today have the incentive to learn? Many people claim that they do not and that the lack of motivation is increasingly becoming worse and worse in today’s society. The belief that society has unknowingly created for today’s students is that there is a separation between education that is taught in schools and that which is learned outside of schools. Children view these things as two different worlds. There is the school world, and the real world. Many children tend to believe that the

Have you ever received a trophy or ribbon in your life from sports or science fairs or anything in between?  Now a day's coaches or teachers will pass out trophies and ribbons to those who really do not deserve it. Not because they were bad, but because they did not work hard enough to earn it. Giving rewards to kids who do not try their best and still get a trophy could lead them down a road to disaster. They will grow up thinking everything they are getting rewarded, when in the real life that is not the case. If you want your kids growing up learning to work hard for something they want and chasing their dreams, then dont give them the rewards they do not deserve.