TEACHER
IN SCHOOL
Primary learning
begins at home but secondary and formal learning starts from school. The school
is considered as a second home for the most kids. Teachers are one of the more
influential people in the lives of our children. Teachers are those who impart
education to students who will be tomorrow’s leaders. A teacher is a leader,
who a lead knows exactly what the world needs, what her student needs.
Basically, teacher in school teaches about the academic standard or just
following the national curriculum, but a good teacher also teaches understands
the human aspects of living. A teacher who enters the profession because he is
keen on education, or who makes decisions about teaching on educational
grounds, would manifestly not be relying on the earlier undifferentiated concept;
for this could provide no grounds whatever for doing anything in particular.[1]
Every profession in this world has their aims to achieve their target including
becoming a teacher. Teacher and education are related each other. The aim of
education is to produce specialized knowledge[2]. A
teacher could be clear about his aims as an educator to develop professionally
on a person level and through the use of programs, learn to assess my progress
and teaching strategies, stay motivated, and develop leadership skills.
The arrangement teacher and society are always connected
each other. Teacher should be proud of his culture, his national dress and his
national language and should be a missionary, a mentor, a reformer and a guide
besides being as dedicated tutor. In other words, teacher should be a perfect
teacher and a perfect educationist. While highlighting the role of a teacher in
the society, it is imperative to involve the role of parents, too, in the
process of character building of students. Usually, teacher needs a support
from parent to developing the level of performance their children. The parent
and teacher relationship is also involved in children’s early school
adjustment. Generally, when parents participate in their children’s education,
both at home and at school, and experience relationships with teachers
characterized by respect and friendly. This will help student’s performance
rise up with increased their achievement motivation, and exhibit higher levels
of emotional, social, and behavioral adjustment. For instance, parent
involvement behaviors include volunteering at school, communicating with the
teacher, attending school functions, and assisting with homework. Parent and teacher
relationship quality refers to the affective quality of the home and school
connection. Teacher perception of parent and teacher
relationship is to develop the teacher’s report into home to assess parent
involvement in education. Consistent with the central role of social
relatedness in students’ academic motivation and performance, early elementary
students gain more in achievement when they and their parents experience
supportive relationships with teachers. Furthermore, the effect of student and teacher
and parent and teacher relationship quality in first grade on achievement the
following year is indirect, via child classroom engagement.
Teachers
are chosen in the community because of their knowledge. Actually, teachers are
chosen in the community influenced by the function of teaching. Function of
teacher is to help the students learn by imparting knowledge and setting up
situation in which the students can and will learn effectively. Others function
that help students are making curriculum material and inculcating social and
moral values. When we describe the curriculum as “everything that teachers and
students learn in schools,” we are not just referring to the contents of each
day’s lesson. We are referring more broadly to the content, skills, values, and
attitudes that students learn in school.[3]
This is why teachers are needed in the community to provide their knowledge and
skills to students. For an example, the categories of curriculum are formal
curriculum and hidden curriculum. The formal curriculum found in the textbooks,
curriculum guides, and standards, as well as other planned formal educational.
It includes everything teachers are expected to teach, learners are expected to
learn, what schools are held accountable for.[4]
The benefits of having formal curriculum are increases the relevance of content
by making connections among ideas like ideas in textbooks or sources that
including formal curriculum and integrating a curriculum improves achievement
and promote collaborative planning, which increases communication among
teachers. On the other hand, hidden curriculum or informal consists of the
kinds of learning students acquire from the nature and organization of the
classroom and school as well as the attitudes and actions of their teachers. It
is reflected in the way teachers present their content, the kinds of routine
that are established. All curriculums that stated are the making of learning as
the focal point of teaching, modeling own interest in the topic that are teach,
respecting students and expecting them to respect teachers and each other.
There are a variety of bodies designed to
instill, preserve and update the knowledge and professional standing of
teachers. Around the world many governments operate teacher's colleges, which
are generally established to serve and protect the public interest through
certifying, governing and enforcing the standards of practice for the teaching
profession. Basically, teachers with more experience and higher education earn
more than those with a standard bachelor's degree and certificate.
Certification usually granted by state board of education or state
certification advisory committee. Each state has different requirements for
certification, so the best way to proceed is to contact the education
department in your state. It is important to realize that the certification
process in each state varies, but there are more similarities among states then
there are differences. All states
require a minimum of a bachelor’s degree for any teacher to be certified no
matter which method they are certified through. All certificate that required
in the state is the way to becoming a teacher. This may help to find a quality
of teaching in school that to ensure the productivity students encouraged and
also great teachers affect the destiny of nations. Teachers are master of their
subject matter will have the quality and great teachers. They exhibit expertise
in the subjects they are teaching and spend time continuing to gain new
knowledge in their field. They present material in an enthusiastic manner and
instill a hunger in their students to learn more on their own.
Becoming
a teacher is a uniquely rewarding experience. The job of a
teacher is exciting and rewarding.[5]
There is less stress involved. As a teacher, you get to play a key role in
developing basic learning skills in children, inculcating good values in them,
cultivating their minds and teaching them not just lessons from books but
lessons of life. At that young age, kids consider you as their role models; you
inspire them, influence them. And that's a great benefit of being a teacher and
having a chance to play an importance role in someone's life. The role of a
teacher in the life of his student actually never ends. Students always
remember teacher for what they have got from a teacher, they are thankful to
teacher for what teacher have taught them. That's one benefit of being a
teacher that gives students chance to share their aspirations, a chance to
build their dreams and chance to give them wings to fly.
It will have the rare opportunity to have a
positive impact on the lives of all those students in the classroom.
Additionally, teacher will be able to see firsthand the tangible effect on
ourselves that are having on the education of students. The overwhelming
feeling of success will obtain when students succeed and enjoy the process of
learning is unlike anything that will experience in the corporate world. Traditionally,
the perception of low teacher salaries has been a deterrent to more people
pursuing this admirable profession. Nowadays, this perception is incorrect. The
starting salary of a public school teacher in most states is greater than the
starting salary of other comparable positions. As a teacher, you often receive
a number of other benefits, such as favorable health insurance, that are not as
readily available to other professions.
Feeling
that have made a positive impact on someone’s life is one of the most rewarding
sensations in the world. Teaching can be rewarding. The rewards in teaching can
be either personally satisfying the emotional or intellectual reasons. While
emotional rewards motivate them as well, many people choose to teach because
they are interested in a certain area and want to share their interest and
excitement with others. When a positive influence on a student at a young age,
teachers are also benefiting that student’s family and the surrounding
community. More and more, schools are becoming involved with community
initiatives at every educational level. By becoming a school teacher, you will
allow yourself to become more in touch with the daily pulse of your local
community.
Another benefit of becoming a teacher is that
you get the opportunity to be a part of the constant process of learning.
Someone has said that every student teaches his teacher, a new teaching style.
True that is. In changing teacher ways while teaching students of different
intellects or varying abilities, teacher can get to learn so much. Teaching
involves oratory, spontaneity and presence of mind. This calls for great
communication skills. Being a teacher, you have to speak to a class of fifty
odd students coming from different backgrounds. It does take a lot of
confidence to do that day in and day out. Spontaneous questions from students,
some weird, are an everyday affair. As a teacher, you are expected to know all
the answers. This demand of job makes teachers more aware, more confident, and
more spontaneous. As a teacher, we are surrounded by bright young minds,
curious to know everything about the world, especially if teach in a school. We
can get to spend a majority of your time of the day, with children, talking to
them, understanding them, teaching them, and learning from them. Time spent
with kids is time put to good use. As a teacher, we are with children for five
to six hours every day, laughing with them, crying with them, and at times
becoming their friend and their guardian. Yes, there's very little stress
involved in a teaching job, as spending time with children in it is a great
stress buster. As we teach a new set of students every year, there is less
monotony in a teacher's job. What you teach may repeat but those you teach it
to be new. If your school or institute allows, you can get an opportunity to
devise new ways of teaching, formulate different teaching strategies and invent
ways in which learning can be made fun for the students. This makes you develop
creativity. One of the most important benefits of becoming a teacher is that
can contribute to the shaping of future generations. Getting a chance to
nurture young minds and make a difference to the society.
The
concept of man and knowledge are closely correlated to each other because man’s
superiority above other creation is due to his ability to acquire knowledge.
The significance of knowledge is highlighted by numerous Qur’anic injunctions
and prophetic sayings. Seeking knowledge is the first divine word revealed to
the prophet Muhammad S.A.W that is reflected in the command ‘Iqra’ (al-alaq:
1-5) that literally means ‘do read’ to denote ‘do seek knowledge’. This based
on the fact that reading is a vital mechanism of seeking knowledge. This doing
becomes an individual’s obligation as proclaimed by the Prophet Muhammad S.A.W:
“The acquisition of knowledge is obligatory on every
Muslim. Knowledge enables the
possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it light the way to heaven”[6]
The prophet also
mentions the value of the ‘pen’ which symbolized knowledge as “The ink of the
scholar’s pen is more scared than the blood of the martyr” (sahih Muslim and
bukhari). Indeed the possessor of knowledge has honor, excellence, distinction
and status (Al- Imran: 18; Al-Ankabut: 43; Al-Fatir: 28). Knowledge in English
means ‘what a person knows’ which include facts, information, skills and
attitudes. In Islamic, al-ilm means understanding and knowledge. However,
al-ilm is defined in various perspectives. Al-Jurjani gives a concrete
definition that is “the absolute certainty which is conformable with its actual
reality”. Thus, al-ilm is required to reach the highest status of perception
without any doubts.
The ultimate source of all is Allah,
the best teacher for mankind who grants two references of literacy namely
Divine revelation (wahy) and the law of nature or the universe (al- kawn).
Islam considers both references are equally important because both are
responsive towards human progress. More discoveries and findings are produced
when more investigation and researches are made. In addition, the scope of
knowledge covers both worldly and other worldly affairs as Muslims always pray
for “…our lord! Give us good in this world and good in the Hereafter,”
(al-Baqarah: 201). This prayer reflects an educational outlook that is not only
comprehensive in physical and spiritual but optimistic in this world and the
Hereafter.
One
aspect of motivation, probably the hardest to change, lies in the personality
of the teacher. Like all human beings, teachers perceive the behaviors that are
appropriate in a given environment. In addition, most children exhibit the
ability to see through a person's actions, recognizing those actions as genuine
or fake. Consequently, the teacher's task of exhibiting the characteristics
necessary to motivate a class is a careful daily process that inevitably meets
some failure and need for improvement. Motivation is a combination of many
different aspects that comprise a part of teachers' pedagogical knowledge.
Teachers must realize that to maintain and be successful with all of the
techniques at all times is impossible. Gaining experience and using some of
these techniques will help any teacher feel a little better about the quality
of his or her teaching. As a professional educator, the teacher must realize
that the quality of a learning experience lies in the teacher's ability to
create that quality. How can a teacher motivating students by encouraged
students to be active? From the first
day, demonstrate and talk about our own enthusiasm for the course material, and
how it affects personally. Look for ways to connect the material to the lives
of students. For example, teaching an environmental studies class; bring in
examples of environmental issues going on in the area where students live. Use
current event articles, editorials from local newspapers, or examples from our
own life that illustrate the points. Next, think of questions that can ask
about the material that make students think about the subject matter, even if
they have not read the material. Then, during class, attach statements that
come out of their mouths to the reading, so they want to go back and read about
their own ideas. When students experience a sense of belonging at school and
supportive relationships with teachers and classmates, they are motivated to
participate actively and appropriately in the life of the classroom
In
conclusion, the duty of becoming a teacher is honorable because of the given
knowledge to students. Normally, the characteristics of teacher are needed to
provide a good material to students when teaching. The personality
characteristics such as self-reliance, attitudes, anxiety, independence,
emotional stability have differential effects on students learning
achievements. Teaching is a form of interpersonal influenced by aimed at the
changing the behavior potential of another person. Teacher is also the national
builder. There are three of teaching process in school that needs students,
sources of teaching and activities of teaching. [7]Teachers
are the sources of teaching and teachers also independent variables of teaching
process which influence the student with the help of content and different
strategies. In addition, the operations of teaching are divided into two
stages. The first stage is pre-active stage that is developing teaching
strategies for specific subject matter and deciding appropriate strategies and
tactics. The second stage of operating of teaching is inter-active is action or
achievement and the development of strategies. And the third stage of operation
of teachings is post-active stage is to asses the suitability of instructional
material and changing or improving the strategies. This importance of teaching
operations are to develop the teaching skills, classroom teaching and
interaction can be made the effective and creating appropriate conditions of
learning for achieving goals and then the process of teaching can be organized
effectively.
[1]
P.H. Hirst, The logic of education (London 1970) , 25-26
[2]
P.H.Hirst, The logic of education (London 1970), 26
[3]
Donald Kauchak and Paul Eggen, Introduction to teaching Becoming a professional (Pearson 2008)316-317
[4]
Donald Kauchak and Paul Eggen, Introduction to teaching Becoming a professional
(Pearson 2011)322
[5]
P.H. Hirst, The logic Of Education (London 1970), 22
[6]
Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad b.Yazid , Sunnan ibn majah (Beirut: Dar al-fikr), 80
[7]
Shadhi Kant Padey, Teacher Function And Operation (2010), 15
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