Amanda ader roles of a teacher

Amanda Ader: Roles of a Teacher Amanda Ader knows that there are a number of different roles teachers have to fulfill in order to be a success. Some of the roles are taught, and best learned in a formal environment. Other roles, however, are roles that potential teachers need to at a minimum be comfortable learning. Some of the skills are innate, and people who are becoming teachers need to recognize them and work to enhance them.

• You have to be a great communicator. Being a great communicator is essential. You will have to be able to communicate with your students, Their parents, other teachers, and administrators. You may on occasion need to be able to communicate in front of a large gathering of people or to influential business people and civic leaders. A good communicator can do many of these, but a great communicator can effectively communicate with all of these people.

• You must be able to be able to give information to your students in an effective way. Without this, you will be struggling as a teacher and more importantly the students will struggle and will be unprepared. Getting appropriate information to students effectively is the most important task of a teacher.

• Teachers will become surrogate parents. Many students will feel a great deal of attachment to their teachers, and teachers need to know how appropriately handle this. They need to be comfortable receiving that amount of attention and love.

• Teachers must of course be a disciplinarian. Teachers are the authority figure in the classroom and without discipline and being able to discipline students they will end up losing valuable teaching time and the respect of their students.

• Teachers must be counselors as well as teachers of life skills. Students often have needs that adults may look past as being insignificant, but teachers must be able to understand and help students solve these types of issues. If students are burdened by things, big or small, they can become a distraction to themselves or others.

• Teachers have to be good managers. They, like any good manager have to understand how to get the most of their students. This requires a skill set similar to management. With so many different personalities underneath them, they need to understand how to work with each and they need to understand effective techniques for managing large groups of people.

Amanda Ader knows that these are just some of the important parts of a teacher and much more is required. However, these are things that people need to be comfortable with, or they are going to struggle as a teacher.