What is the role of teachers?

Question

What is the role of teachers?

Answer 1

Teachers nowadays are not like the ones 10 or 20 yrs ago..

They not only carry the role of surrogate parents to their students, but also the role of counselors, disciplinarian, mentors, coaches, guides and friends as well...etc...etc...

Especially when teaching teenagers, they want teachers to respect them but they themselves don't practise respect for their teachers (not of them though).

If you really want to be a teacher, you should teach in a respectable school where there are mostly highly motivated students studying there.

But I don't think this is true for most schools I know of...

Discipline is the most important and the most difficult to resolve in schools nowadays.

10 or 20 yrs ago, almost all students respected and abided school authority. Nowadays, parents' complaints are rising due to small and petty problems their sweet young 'things' faced in schools.

The teachers are almost always at fault, be it students are failing in their exams or due to students' behaviourial problems in school.

So if you ask me, I say that only super men and wonder women are the ones who qualified to be teachers.....

Their hearts must be made of steel and with "Einstein" heads to resolve all the daily problems with chldren nowadays...

Hope that answers your question...

Cheers..

Answer 2

Only my opinion....The role a teacher is not ONE role but MANY. They act as Mom during the day. They nurture and care for children. They help mold the students for the rest of their lives. Teachers are a major influence on students' lives. They can make or break a child.

Their JOB is to educate the youth about life and the content of the different subjects. However, their JOB is not the same thing as their ROLE. Teachers' roles are much more important than others want to acknowledge.

Answer 3

What Teachers Make

- Taylor Mali

The dinner guests were sitting around the table discussing life. One man, a CEO, decided to explain the problem with education. He argued, "What's a kid going to learn from someone who decided his best option in life was to become a teacher?"

He reminded the other dinner guests what they say about teachers: "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach."

To stress his point he said to another guest; "You're a teacher, Bonnie. Be honest. What do you make?"

Bonnie, who had a reputation for honesty and frankness replied, "You want to know what I make?

(She paused for a second, then began... )

"Well, I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could.

I make a C+ feel like the Congressional Medal of Honor. I make kids sit through 40 minutes of class time when their parents can't make them sit for 5 without an I Pod, Game Cube or movie rental... You want to know what I make?"

(She paused again and looked at each and every person at the table.)

I make kids wonder. I make them question. I make them criticize. I make them apologize and mean it. I make them have respect and take responsibility for their actions. I teach them to write and then I make them write. I make them read, read, read. I make them show all their work in math. I make my students from other countries learn everything they need to know in English while preserving their unique cultural identity. I make my classroom a place where all my students feel safe. I make my students stand to say the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, because we live in the United States of America.

Finally, I make them understand that if they use the gifts they were given, work hard, and follow their hearts, they can succeed in life.

(Bonnie paused one last time and then continued.)

"Then, when people try to judge me by what I make, I can hold my head up high and pay no attention because they are ignorant... You want to know what I make?

I MAKE A DIFFERENCE. What do you make?"

The mediocre teacher tells.  The good teacher explains.  The superior teacher demonstrates.  The great teacher inspires.  ~William Arthur Ward

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.  ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort.  The tough problem is not in identifying winners:  it is in making winners out of ordinary people.  ~K. Patricia Cross

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.  ~Donald D. Quinn

Answer 4

um they teach kids to be smart?

Answer 5

This is not the dumb question that it appears to be.

Another answerer has hit on one thing: the teacher is the parent during the school day in the absence of the true parent.  Most school's operate under an in loco parentis principle; and most parents assume this relationship to be in effect.  In other wrods, they say "Here's my child for the next 6 or 7 hours; I'm trusting you to treat him as I would if I could be here with him."

But it is not always the teacher's job to teach kids to be smart as another answerer has said.  As a drama teacher for 6 years, I often told my kids that even if they never were in a play, I hoped that they took certain things with them from my classroom and were better people because of it.  Teamwork, honesty, citizenship, what my school called Character Education.

And a teacher has to model.  Even when the teacher is not in the classroom, when he or she is seen at the mall or at the pool during the summer, he is immediately identified as "my teacher" and should not be seen modeling bad behavior.  It's why people who are NOT teachers can get away with things that teachers can't get away with.

The role of the teacher is a great one in society and only a few society's realize and appreciate it.  The United States is one that does not.

Answer 6

that is the dumbest question I've seen today

Answer 7

They have many roles

coach, mom, disciplinarian, counselor, tutor

They have many different duties every day.

Answer 8

To teach