Demonstrate your understanding of the teacher’s role in engaging children fully and actively in the learning process
“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give…” (The opening words to the United Nations’ Declaration of the rights of the child)
Teaching has been one of the oldest services to society in any culture. The base of any nation and culture is established by preparing the human resource, mostly through formal methods of education, which eventually lends towards nation building. Due to its great ‘moral’ potential to impact an entire generation, formal education has always been valued by social institutions especially governments and civil societies. Thus, the role of a teacher came to be looked upon as a ‘noble’
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factors that contribute to creating a positive, safe and stimulating learning environment (school experience and readings).
the importance of making learners aware of how to learn (metacognition) and thus engage them fully and actively in the learning process (role of assessments for learning and school experience)
My Rationale- Importance of the role of a teacher: Classrooms today reflect a progressive, ‘constructivist’ and child-centered model of school instruction as against a traditional, teacher-led, learning by rote, ‘front-of-class-style-of-teaching’ generation to which I belong. Teachers of today are professionals who are now expected to not teach in that sense- its more to do with acknowledging and understanding the fact that learning is a life-long process and ‘to offer children the benefit of that understanding’ ; ‘they need to build and develop a capacity for change and risk’ (Hargreaves, 2003) , and learn new ways to teach. They are trained to ‘build special knowledge of professionalism’ which in my understanding means to be reflective ‘change agents’ who need to ‘bridge’ the past, present and future; make meaningful connections between the traditional and the innovative in order to constantly adapt to the process of change in modern society.
For our introductory PGCE session in early September 2016, the key note was delivered by Kate Frood, Head teacher of Eleanor Palmer. One of the ideas shared by her on the significance of the role of a teacher
Metacognition is the ability to understand the learning process of not only yourself, but the ones around you. Having this understanding allows you to convey information in a much more effective manner. Understanding the way I learn is important to the way I can approach problems and solutions. These issues and answers develop in many forms. Much like how an artist develops a process of completing a master piece, I can develop the tools to understand and learn in any situation, job, or
The reputation of the teacher is possibly one of the most fickleof all professions, the reason for this being the closed environment to which they work. As in all professions, reputation is important so to be able to carry this reputation forward it is important to earn the respect of not just pupils but colleagues, peers and the local education authority. Experience within local education authorities creates local professionals, as easy as this is to state it is just as easy to understand because of the relationships built between the teacher and other local professionals within the professional environment of the
According to Clarke (2006) the role, responsibilities and boundaries are evolving qualities within the teacher which are assessed and reflected upon using the teaching/training cycle; a cycle of assessment, planning and review. My main role as a teacher is to facilitate
Throughout this assignment, I will be critically analysing how 'Educating Yorkshire ' represents teaching, whilst making strong references to teacher relationships and engagement. It could be assumed that teachers are solely there to teach, which of course they do, however, the role of a teacher goes beyond the delivery of the curriculum. Although modern day teaching may involve a much more pupil centred approach known as the 'progressivism approach ', present teachers still have highly complex roles when it comes to the every day involvement that they have in their pupils lives and learning. This is true of a recent fly on the wall documentary named 'Educating Yorkshire ', which is filmed in a high school in Yorkshire. According to
Teaching is an extremely important profession as we are responsible for training up the future generations of our community, country and in effect, the world. In order to be a successful and effective teacher there are some basic skills and competencies that one must possess. The experiences that students have inside (and outside) our classrooms, schools and various other institutes will shape and mould their approach to our subjects and to life in general. Therefore, it requires a certain level of skill and training to be deemed professionally fit to enter into this career path and even then, continuous
I have chosen to become a teacher because I believe that education is the center of a country’s development process and prosperity. I want to be an educator to play an effective role in my society’s revival. Besides, I have always dreamed to be a teacher; it is a passion, which I truly have since I was young. The strong teaching motivation, which I have is derived from the deep belief that teachers can make a big difference in their students’ lives. In addition, I believe that teaching is a noble profession, which should be taken seriously. I know that being a teacher is never easy; it comes with high responsibilities and obstacles, but I am sure that I have suitable qualifications, which make me eligible to overcome them. Education as a basic concept in my perspective is all about developing knowledge, skills, values, ethics, physical and spiritual aspects,
In this assignment, I will review the debate on professionalism. Looking at the teacher as a professional and discussing their professionalism. I will highlight the differences and the similarities between professionalism in education and several other professional vocations. I will discuss the shifting views of professional status of both mainstream teachers and FE teachers, and developments and where I see the FE sector heading.
Price-Mitchell, M. (2015, April 07). Metacognition: Nurturing Self-Awareness in the Classroom. Retrieved September 03, 2017, from https://www.edutopia.org/blog/8-pathways-metacognition-in-classroom-marilyn-price-mitchell
The GTCNI have argued that, “Professional knowledge, by its very nature, is organic and, to an extent, evolutionary, reflecting a synthesis of research, experiences gained and expertise shared” (GTCNI, 2007:10). The GTNCI further reinforces this statement when it states that, “Teaching can never be reduced to a set of discrete skills to be mastered in some mechanical process of assimilation” (GTCNI, 2007:5). Teaching today has moved beyond the outdated view that the most important thing for a teacher was solely to have professional knowledge. Professional knowledge encompasses a range of different forms of knowledge such as knowledge on the curriculum and children and pedagogical knowledge e.g. how to manage a classroom amongst many other forms. Whilst this is still of great importance professional knowledge is of no use if you are not able to adapt this knowledge to meet the ever-changing dynamic situations that you will encounter in the classroom. This essay will examine how reflective practice can be unlisted by teachers to ensure that they are meeting the needs of their pupils as well as
The role of the teacher these days is completely different from their roles in the past. They used to teach only and to be told what to teach. These days, the teachers help the students develop their own skills and encourage them to develop their information and challenge them to learn.
Within the task-definition stage, students are generating questions and making conscious choices regarding relevant information (Costa 1984, as cited in ALA, 2006). A metacognitive support system allows students to manage complex cognitive tasks and processes. (ALA, 2006)
I believe education is one of the most important tools a person can have in life. Every child deserves to receive the best education possible. It has always been my passion to help each child discover their individual God given gifts and talents and to reach their full potential.
Generally Metacognition is defined as “how individual monitor and control their cognitive process” (Young & Fry, 2008). Metacognition refers to being able to reflect upon, understand, and control one’s learning. Previous accounts of metacognition have differentiated between two major components, including knowledge about cog¬nition and regulation of cognition (Brown, 1987; Flavell, 1987; Jacobs & Paris, 1987). Knowledge about cognition includes three sub processes that simplify the reflective aspect of metacognition: declarative knowledge (i.e., knowledge about self and about strategies), procedural knowledge (i.e., knowledge about how to use strategies), and conditional knowledge (i.e., knowledge
A methodological framework was necessary to organise the project in a systematic and rigorous way however this methodological framework must be underpinned by a conceptual framework (Denscombe, 2010), which represents my preferred approach to this inquiry. This framework supposes that firstly, metacognition holds lifelong value for the pupils and will improve their enjoyment and achievement. And secondly, that my teaching can be improved by more inclusion of metacognitive strategies and provide a more enjoyable experience within the lab when compared to the ‘traditional’ scheme of work used at the school.
Metacognition allows students to identify goals and strategies for achieving those goals. There is a definition of Metacognition giving by Illinois State University, Department of physics: ‘knowing what one knows and does not know a student’s ability to self-monitor levels of understanding and predict how well he will do on a particular task.’ Metacognition is the strategy thinking the thinking to figure a way to know ourselves much better in particular task. The practice of metacognitive learning lead to greater success in college or university, because this is like a guide book with the specific ways showing what you need to do and a tool to identify your abilities. It makes use self-regulation, identify ourselves, clear