What do you think is the most important role a teacher plays? Why?

The most important role a teacher plays in my opinion is learning each student as an individual, understanding their needs, learning about each one personally, and the ways each student learns best to adapt and incorporate this into teaching for the whole class.

While observing the teacher, I have noticed that she has learned important knowledge about each student. Because of this she knows what will work best and also what will not work for each child. She is also able to anticipate what might occur from the students because she has spent the time to understand them. By understanding how each student learns best the teacher gives a lesson and goes over the material in many ways to reach each type of learning.

While the teacher is doing all of these things she is filling many roles. She is an educator, friend, mentor, mediator, and helper along with many more. In teaching it is important to play many roles for the students in their learning and development to be able to arrive with the tools when entering into higher education or the workforce.