Sanatan Dharam Public School
East Punjabi Bagh
New Delhi
Who is a teacher?
•A person who provides education to pupils and students
•A mentor, guide and philosopher
Role of a teacher
•Often formal and ongoing
•Carried out at a school or an educational institute
Although, not only limited to school
•Job scope encompasses government assigned duties and
administrative work
“A teacher is a social servant”
- John Dewey
Teacher’s Role
Two broad categories:
• Instruction, Socialization and Evaluation
•Motivating pupils, maintaining control and creating an
environment for learning
Teacher works as:
• An instructional input
• A manager
• A facilitator
• A counselor
• A part of the community
“A teacher is a good friend who prevents his
friends from shedding tears.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
As an Instructional Input
Instruction
• Complex environment with deliberately designed environment
• Pupils interact with the environment
• To learn pre-specified objective
Input
• Help start the process of learning
• Transformed into an output
INPUT
STUDENT
OUTPUT
• Content transacted
through teacher
• Learning
experiences
• Different methods
• Audio-visual aids
Interacts with the
inputs provided by
the teacher
Student emerges
with certain changes
in learning
Advanced knowledge
As a Manager
•Provide leadership to students
•Coordinate a variety of activities
•Accomplish academic and social goals of schooling
Applied to all phases of teaching:
• Pre-teaching
• Teaching
• Post-teaching
Preteaching
Teachin
g
Postteaching
Analyze and decide :
Content
Instructional objectives
Methods of evaluating
Sense and understand:
Students’ interest
Level of understanding
An effective way of
making a point
Analyze:
Performance of
students
Revise content
Teacher acts as a:
Decision maker
Designer of the pupils’
way
Teacher shows:
Resourcefulness
Spontaneity
Teacher analyzes
results, reflects on self,
modifies the teachinglearning process
As a Facilitator
• To promote learning
• To help forward students to develop more by learning
• To make the learning process easy
Applications
• Increased participation of students
• Specially designed environment with visual aids
• Discussions and quizzes
As a Counselor
• To give advice to students who need help
•To assist with problems which cannot be solved by students
themselves
Applications
• Address problems related to school, studies
• Be approachable for issues concerning friends, family, health
• Be sensitive to identify students’ problems
• Observe students to sense any unusual behavior, which may
indicate trouble
• Most importantly, be objective in any situation
Qualities of a ‘good’ teacher
• Service-mindedness
•Being Methodological
•Ability to impart instructions clearly
•Constant learner
• Being loving to people and pupils
• Being patient
• Being a good listener
• Being a friend, guide and a role model to students