Teaching-profession & service

Teaching - profession and service 

 

Teaching- profession and service

Teaching is both a profession and a service.

• As a profession, it requires specialized knowledge, skills, and training to effectively educate students. Teachers typically undergo formal education and continuous professional development to stay updated in their field. They are responsible for planning lessons, assessing student progress, and fostering a positive learning environment.

• As a service, teaching is fundamentally about helping others learn and grow. Teachers provide guidance, support, and mentorship to students, helping them develop academically, socially, and emotionally. They play a vital role in shaping the future generation and contributing to society by imparting knowledge, instilling values, and preparing students for the challenges of the world beyond the classroom.

Teacher

• A teacher is an educator who facilitates learning and imparts knowledge, skills, and values to students.

• Teachers can work in various educational settings, including schools, colleges, universities, and informal learning environments.

• They are responsible for designing and delivering instruction, assessing student progress, providing feedback, and creating a supportive learning environment.

• Teachers possess expertise in their subject area(s) and pedagogical methods, and they play a critical role in shaping the intellectual, social, emotional, and moral development of their students.

• Teachers often serve as mentors, role models, and advocates for their students, guiding them toward academic success and personal growth.

• Overall, teachers are dedicated professionals committed to fostering lifelong learning and empowering individuals to reach their full potential.

Teacher

* The teacher who plays a vital role in the process of teaching and learning.
* have mastery in subject matter.
* accessibility of instruction.
* arrange the learning materials  in the meaningful manner.
* guiding the students at every steps.
* show the correct path.
*through awareness of individual learner.
* leads the students to the goals along that path. 

 
Teaching  -  profession and service

Teaching is a profession
Subject mastery  + training

Training

* should complete a training period of 2 or more years.

Teaching skills

During the training period the teacher should familiarize and practices various skills and mastery about it.
During the actual teaching session the teacher has to integrate different teaching skills at the proper time,  and make the class more interactive.

Methods of teaching

Teaching is not the process of providing information to the students.
* inorder to make the learning effective the teacher should familiarize various methods of teaching and understand the psychological and philosophical principles and facts behind each methods. On the basis of these ideas, teachers can choose the proper methods and integrate  various methods to make the learning effective and long lasting.

Application of suitable devices and techniques

Selection of appropriate devices and techniques is one of the major task.  To make the learning meaningful the teacher has to link suitable devices and techniques incoperate with the methods of teaching.

Evaluation techniques

To access the learner's level of performance is an important task of teacher. The ultimate aim of Education is the  behavioral change or behavioral modification.  How much changes happenning in each domains of learner should be assess in each phases of learning. So a teacher should familiarize and mastery over various measurement and evaluation techniques. The teacher has acquire the mathematical ideas to convert the students performance in the quantitative manner such as ranking or grading.

Adopt remedial measures

After accessing the performance level of the learner, the teacher can identify the deviation of students performance from the main stream or normality.  The knowledge about the causes and reasons,  the teacher can adopt the remedial measures to overcome the difficulties of the learner which the learning process.

Sessions of practicing the above

During the teacher education period, the teacher trainee get opportunities to practice all the above  in the regular classroom environment with the concerned class, subject and with the learner.  How much effectively he/she can completed the  teaching practice session he get a grade or score.  When ever he got a professional degree from the authority (NCETE)  the teacher becomes a professional teacher.

Teaching as a  service

Teachers always be a social committed person.
• Teacher as a social engineer
Construct the future citizens are in the hands of  teachers.  Socially committed, socially responsible, socially productive citizens are molded by the hands of teachers. So during the formal education period the teacher's role is not only the information provider but also equip the students to meet the challenges in the ever changing society. All these are the responsibility of the teacher.
• Make the child self sufficient
Enables the child to realise his abilities and utilizes his potentialities to the correct and proper channels. Proper guidance should provide the each step of development.
Familiarize the learner to the productive community.
• Make the learner a healthy personality.
Equip the learner to understand the rights and duties as a citizen. Help to develop morals.,values etc
• Equip the pupil to take responsibilities.
Enable  them a socially committed citizens.
Participate the learners in social issues and generate their opinion related to these issues in a judicial and humanistic manner.
• A service for whole humanity
Establish and maintain peace national integration and international understanding. Protect the cultural heritage and transmit its values to the next generation.
Act as a role of social change and conserve the value system