Презентация к проекту Teachers and students – staying on different sides of the trench or initial steps on the road to cooperation?"

Teachers and students – staying on different sides of the trench or initial steps on the road to cooperation?

Supervisor :

Olga Peshcherskay

Our aim

To prove that a teacher will be the key link in the process of education and character training of students if he is neoteric and modern

Our side tasks

To define several pedagogical terms through the analysis of special informative sources

Stress out certain features of each type of a teacher

Reveal and analyze the crucial qualities for a new model of teacher

To make a poll among the students to reveal their attitude to teachers

To conduct a survey among the teachers to define what types of teachers they are

Practical usefulness

To work out some sound advice how to build right, democratic and reciprocal relations and interaction during lessons and draw the conclusions

Our hypothesis

Only a flawless teacher combining high professionalism with moral high ground, exclusive standards to himself can be called neoteric or a teacher of today who will be able to reach out to students, give them knowledge and be a youth worker

Theoretical framework

a role model of his/her own students

a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competences or values

a link between generations, the support of social and historical experience 

Who can be named «a teacher»?

Scholastic functions

The executive function

of teaching

The interactive function

The organizational function

Multiple roles of a teacher

Teachers fill a complex set of roles:

• Mediator of  learning
• Disciplinarian or controller of student behaviour
• Parent substitute
• Confidant to students
• Judge of achievement
• Organizer of curriculum
• Bureaucrat

• Scholar and research specialist
• Member of teachers’ organization
• Roles in the community
• Public servant
• Surrogate of middle-class morality
• Expert in some area of knowledge or skills
• Community leader
• Agent of social change

Typology of teachers

Teachers - theorists

Teachers - artists

Teachers- the realists

Teachers intuitionalists

By nature intellectual-volitional sphere :

ORGANIZATIONAL TYPE

STRONG-WILLED TYPE

EMOTIONAL TYPE

INTELLECTUAL TYPE

1) According to settings

Tutor a tyrant

An ambitious educator

Reasonable caregiver

2) According to the dominant orientation of the individual

The organizer

Subject teacher

Subject teacher-organizer

Communicator teacher

Intellectual (educator)

3) Classification of teachers based on their professional positions and roles

• «The General»

strict, demanding

• "Manager“

tolerant, creative

• “ Coach“

self-confident, leader

• "Guide“

Kind, walking encyclopedia

• "Socrates“

“ devil's advocate"

• "The head of group discussions“

Democratic, pationt

• "Master“

Wise, flexible

A teacher through the eyes of a teacher

A teacher through the eyes of his family

A teacher through the eyes of economists

A teacher through the eyes of his local authority

A teacher through the

eyes of passers-by in the street

A teacher through the eyes of his students

A teacher through the eyes

of his colleagues

Professionally Important Qualities of a neoteric teacher

• Personal activity
• Purposefulness.
• Steadiness.
• Desire to work with children.
• Pedagogical humanism.
• Erudition .
• Tolerance.
• A pedagogical step.
• Discipline.
• Logical thinking

Characteristics of being a “Modern Teacher”

Good education and knowledge

Should have high expectations for all students.

Well dressed and good personality

Have a good sense of humor

Should have good communication skills

Should be a good listener

Kindness, accessible, and caring.

A Modern Teacher Today

• Socially mature
• Able to use modern technologies
• Advanced and broad-minded
• Be tolerant, patient and understanding
• Has original way conceiving-thinking
• Capable to make non-standard decisions
• Creative+ flexible mobile
• Constantly enriching knowledge

Practical part

The poll among our teachers

• How long have you been working as a teacher?
• Why did you choose this job? Was it a true life calling?
• If you had had a chance to turn back time, would you have become a teacher again ?
• Choose what kind of a teacher you are 7 types
• What are the main advantages and disadvantages of
• your profession?
• What should you do to enhance the prestige of your occupation?
• What qualities are the most crucial for a perfect teacher?

Why did our teachers choose this job? Was it a true life calling?

Special questionnaire to define what kinds of teachers work at out school

Certain advantages of being a teacher

Drawbacks of teacher’s occupation

Developing a Good Classroom Environment

Dealing with Classroom Challenges

Maintaining the Right Mindset

Improving as a Teacher

“ Four effective methods how to become a neoretic teacher”

Good environment includes

• Create a daily objective for your students

• Listen to your students

• Keep students on task

• Push your students to succeed

Dealing with classroom challenges means

• Discipline in a prompt and thoughtful way

• Assign leadership roles to difficult students

• Express a personal interest in all students

• Stay calm when addressing argumentative students

• Give quiet students many avenues of participation

Maintaining the Right Mindset

• Be a professional at all times

• Laugh and keep your sense of humor

• Repeat positive mantras on bad days

• Create good relationships with the parents of students

Improving as a Teacher

• Seek out teaching mentors

• Take time to reflect

• Take advantage of professional development opportunities

Conclusion

“ The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

William A. Ward

Thanks for your attention