TEACHER'S ROLES IN LEARNING PROCESS

1.     Teacher as Controller

When the teacher as controllers they are in charge of the class and the activity taking place in a way that is substantially different from a situation where students are working on their own in groups.

Controller takes the roll, tell the students things, organize drills, read aloud, and in various others way exemplify the qualities of teacher-fronted classroom.

2.     Teacher as Organizer

One of the most important roles that the teachers have to perform is that organizing students to do various activity. This often involves giving the students information, telling them how they are going to do the activity, putting them into a pairs of groups, and finally closing things down when it is time to stop.

3.     Teacher as Assessor

Teacher has to act as an assessor, offering feedback and correction and grading students in various ways.

Students need to know how and for what they are being assessed. We should tell them what we are looking for and what success looks like so that they can measure themselves against this.

4.     Teacher as  a participant

In this role, the teacher acts as a participant not as a teacher. There are also times when we have to join in an activity not as a teacher but as a participant. Understand students by coming to their worlds as their friends.

5.     Teacher as a Resourcer

The teacher is helpful and available. They take a part in activities, control them and give a feed back.

6.     Teacher as an Observer

We will want to observe what students do (especially in oral communicative activities) so that we can give them useful group and individual feedback.

When observing students we should be careful not to be intrusive by hanging on their every word, by getting to close to them, or by officiously writing things all the time.

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