ONLINE ASSIGNMENT
TOPIC: ROLE OF TEACHER IN
SOCIETY
RAMESH.N.K
COMMERCE
2ND SEM
INTRODUCTION
Teacher in role is a method of teaching
that utilizes techniques of drama to facilitate education. It is a holistic teaching method designed to integrate critical thought, examination of emotion and moral values and factual data to broaden the learning
experience and make it more relevant to everyday
life situations.
If the role of a teacher is to
teach, the role of a student must be to learn. However, it has been agreed that
learning is not only an exercise in reading and reciting facts, but in gaining
a deeper insight of events and situations. This is where drama becomes an
invaluable tool. Through the use of drama and dramatic
conventions a teacher does not only teach and learn the what but also
the why and how.
We each adopt different 'roles' in everyday situations, these roles change with the situation; we
all have numerous roles in life. We can imagine those roles as hats that we
wear at appropriate times (e.g. Son, Brother, Teacher, Employee etc.). These
roles have "implied" behavior, which we all know. It is this implied social behavior which we can use in drama and dramatic situations to
create deeper understanding and meanings. The role of a teacher in society is
both significant and valuable. It has far-reaching influence on the society he
lives in and no other personality can have an influence more profound than that
of a teacher. Students are deeply affected by the teacher's . and affection, his character, his competence, and his moral
commitment. A popular teacher becomes a model for his
students. The students try to follow their teacher in his manners, costumes, etiquette, style of conversation and his get up. but also the why and how.
Importance
The
importance of a [teacher] as an [architect] of our future generations demands
that only the best and the most [intelligent] and competent members of our
intelligentsia be allowed to qualify for this noble profession. It is
unfortunate to find that generally the worst and the most incapable people of
the society find their way into this profession. Anyone who fails to find an
opening in any other walk of life, gets into this profession and recklessly
plays with the destiny of the nation. An important reason for this is
understood to be the poor salaries of our primary and secondary teachers which
are no better than that of clerks. A large number of our teachers is,
therefore, frustrated and uninterested.
They have
to go for part-time jobs to meet their basic needs. Again, the teaching
profession also does not enjoy due respect in the society. The primary and
secondary teachers are particularly at a disadvantage. Their status is lower
than that of doctors, engineers, advocates, civil servants; even lower than
that of semi literate and illiterate traders. It would therefore require great
commitment for an intelligent individual, however fond of education and
training he may be, to forsake the career of a doctor or engineer in favour of
teaching. Therefore, while selecting good teachers, it must be borne in mind
that better opportunities,prospects and perks are offered to the teachers.
Expectations
of teachers
When we speak of good teachers.
it means that a teacher must be a model of faith and piety and should have a
fairly good knowledge . A teacher should consider it his duty to educate and
train his students and should feel responsible for it. He should feel that his
students have been entrusted to him and he should avoid any breach of the trust
the society has reposed in him. He should be a sociable person with his roots
in the society. People should take him as their well-wisher and a sincere
friend who cares for their children. It should be ascertained at all cost that
a candidate for this profession has a natural acumen and aptitude for teaching.
He should actively participate
in the social activities in a positive way. He should know the art of teaching
with a deep insight into child psychology. He should always deal with the
students in a just manner. He should not lose his self-control on mistakes his
students may commit, and instead he should respect their feelings and ego, and
should try to understand and resolve their difficulties with grace while
keeping his cool. He should be able to smile in the face of bitter criticism on
his opinions, and should not feel ashamed or humiliated to accept his mistakes
wholeheartedly.
The Role of Teachers in
Society
Life is its own education, with
formal schooling playing only a small fraction. However, that does not
undermine the role of the teacher. Those who sit in the
class room have a good bit of influence of shaping the minds of the future.
There are many out there who
instruct and lecture information in the classroom but very few people who
actually teacher. Actually get through and shape the youth of today to be the
pillars of society, to be all that they can be.
In many ways, there will be
times where children will see their teachers a bit more than they might see their
parents during most days. This is the case in the lower grades, where children
are in school, seven, eight, and nine hours a day, with a single teacher at the
lower grade levels.
Needless to say, teachers will find themselves as a temporary
third parent, being firm but fair. Patient but also unable to be able to back
down. They need to run their class room through respect, but not through fear.
Teachers need to be someone that children
respect enough to listen to and to not fear that they can go with, for their
problems, should the situation come up.
Also, teachers are mediators, able to hash out and
make those who are having an argument have some kind of common ground. Anyone
can really just punish the two parties and be done with it, but there will be
no lessons that will be learned from that. If a teacher is able to figure out
what has happened and help develop understanding, then the youth will be far
better off.
The best teachers are far more than just reciting dry
facts and assigning huge piles of homework. They are those who help shape the
children to be the best that they can be and it takes a special person to do
that.
CONCLUSION
A teacher that can get a student at a
young age to realize the value in learning and a solid education is doing a
great service not only to that child, but also to society in general. The more
that kids want to learn and the smarter that they are the better a society will
develop. A person only need to think about the rate of technological innovation
to see the importance in education. So much of life today is wholly dependent
on the vast array of technological innovations that have come about in fairly
recent years, such as computers, cell phones, cars and planes. It is really
hard for any person to imagine a world without many of these technological
innovations.
