The Teacher's Role And Responsibility

The human personality is too complex, and the child’s day by day responses to his

environment are too many and varied for us to hope, immediately for any final absolute answers. The role of a teacher is very crucial and responsible.

To be a professional teacher and for the effective practice of the profession it is important to have goals. Once the goals are identified, the leisure time should be spend in teaching techniques which can contribute to the professional growth. It is true that one may not teach until one has learned, and that learning subject matter is a necessary step in preparing for teaching.

The first responsibility of teacher is to aid students to become acquainted with their cultural heritage and to help them develop desirable habits, attitudes, interests, personality and character patterns. Many teachers encounter difficulty in understanding the child, in appraising his attainments and abilities and in planning an effective learning situation.

Even problems of discipline ordinarily arise only because the teacher fails to understand the child and thus is unable to plan an effective learning situation. The characteristics of the teacher that determine the social and emotional climate of the classroom are those that are most important in determining the child’s own sense of well being.

So the teacher must acquire an understanding of the nature of students and of the forces that produce changes in their behavior. A teacher must see that each child will develop socially desirable and personally satisfying attitudes, ideals and beliefs. These are the frame work of character. A teacher should recognize that one of the major responsibility is to challenge every child to use his intellectual abilities to the fullest extent, and to ensure that every child, everyday will experience some success in keeping with his abilities.

The teachers attitudes are necessarily different from the student’s attitudes.  A teacher is responsible for guiding the behaviors of others and for displaying leadership. The behavior of a teacher must take on a new consistency and a new steadiness.

Whenever the teacher is among the students she will be under their close scrutiny.           

In the classroom students will take their cues from the behavior of teacher.

If the teacher is not serious in her approach neither will they. The teacher will see her own attitudes, habits of attention, regards for others courtesy and conduct reflected directly in their behavior. So the teacher should be more careful in her approach and responsible in her acts. If you are dominating, insecure or excitable you will have insecure, ineffectual pupils.