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March 01, 2015

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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 arriv

What does a teacher do all day?

The teacher incorporated the different modalities people learn into her lessons teaching by repeating many ways and involving the children. The following are what I observed while she taught the children a new poem. The teacher was teaching in a visual way by highlighting important words (like spelling words) and pointing to the words while the whole group read the poem. The teacher was teaching in an auditory way by: reading a poem to the children, the children reading the poem all together with her, the children picking out the rhyming words. The teacher was teaching in a kinesthetic way by having the children close their eyes and mentally visualize, or act out, the poem in their minds while they all laughed because of the silliness of the poem and going over the poem with the children many times asking lots of questions getting their involvement. Some people say that repetition is a key to learning. After observing the teacher, I realized repetition is key for all learners

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