Being teachers, we NEED to play the most important role in founding human beings. I might be exaggerating for some, but this is simply: the truth!
Teachers, I believe, share their mission with prophets. We train them for life, as our real mission is in affecting a real change in building their characters. When we studied about Idealism, I thought they were exaggearting in some areas, but I totally agree with them in the point of having "character development" as one of education's aims. In fact, we owe this to our learners. We can't just keep complainig about children's misbehavior and lack of manners. It's our role not their fault. All it takes is patience.
In fact, we do need to take another thing from idealists: a teacher is a role model. We need to be a live example out there. Take cartoons for example. Kids tend to display an immediate imitation when they watch them. See, it's so practical. When we regularly display what we want them to engrave and adopt, they will unconsciously do.
As teachers, what we do is never related to us solely. Our lives are always and eternally connected to our offsprings; we have to be really ware of what we say, do, or imply. It is our duty; we owe them our honest manners.
Of course, the teacher should be a role model for her students, by acting in an ethical way, respecting them, being friendly with them, discussing her/his students concerns. Thus she attracts their attention , and consequently they tend to imitate her/him in a way or another. So the teacher should always conveys a positive and constructive messages and feedback and avoid those that destruct students and their beliefs in that teacher
ReplyDeleteBeing a role model for student is something different from preaching them. Preaching is somehow similar to lecturing students. Therefore students will be totally on acquiring knowledge whether academic or social from the teacher.
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