Correct Answer - Option 1 : a democratic leader
The teacher is a very important component of the teaching-learning process. The teacher has to play different roles in order to facilitate the learning process and to provide direct and real-life experiences to learners.
- The student's learning pace or performance level gets highly influenced by the teacher's activities. The teacher aims to develop the holistic personality of a student.
- The teacher is a facilitator, as his role is to create such an atmosphere of learning where the children can themselves realize their true potential and can construct knowledge.
The different roles of a teacher:
| Facilitator |
- A teacher has to facilitate the learning by helping, guiding, and providing a conducive environment to students make learning easy.
- The teacher gives knowledge and information, appropriate to the level of students in a very clear and simple way so that they can learn and conceptualize the new information.
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| Planner |
- A teacher has to do the planning of lessons, assessments, teaching aids and teaching methods to be used, and to set up the aims and objectives to be achieved.
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| Leader |
- A teacher leads the students and guides them for a better learning experience through various activities.
- The teacher should create a democratic environment in the class so that every student will get an equal opportunity to learn and improve themselves. That's why a teacher should be a leader in the classroom not a dictator.
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| Manager |
- The role of a teacher as a manager is more concerned with the managing of the activities that have to be organized in a teaching-learning process,
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| Counselor |
- The teacher gives advice to the students.
- The teacher senses the problem, gives help, and solves it or the students can also seek help from their teacher.
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| Co-creator |
- National curriculum framework-2005 sees teachers as co-creator of knowledge and sometimes referred to as the "knowledge partners of learners".
- They motivate and encourage students to become active members of the teaching-learning process.
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Hence, it is clear that the role of a teacher in a classroom must be of a democratic leader.
