The Essential Role of Instructors: Creating Positive Learning Environments
This chapter explores the critical role instructors play in shaping classroom dynamics and student experiences. It emphasizes the power instructors have to inspire, motivate, or discourage students, highlighting the importance of personal attitudes and professional competencies. Effective instruction combines technical skills, instructional planning, and personal characteristics such as kindness and communication ability. Instructors are encouraged to reflect on their strengths and limitations to enhance their effectiveness. The qualities of effective educators can lead to an enriching learning environment and student success.
The Essential Role of Instructors: Creating Positive Learning Environments
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Instructor’s Role Chapter 1 Instructors and Their Jobs W. R. Miller and M. F. Miller
Something to Consider I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized. ~Haim Ginott~
Let’s Think About This • List qualities of effective instructors • List qualities of ineffective instructors • Identify strengths you have that will contribute to your being effective • Identify limitations you should eliminate or minimize in your development as an effective instructor
Effective Instruction • Technical competency • Professional competency • Personal competency
Technical Competency • Need for basic competence • Work experiences increase credibility and provide examples • Knowledge and experience creates confidence • Not enough for instructional effectiveness
Professional Competency • Instructional planning • Identify skills and knowledge to be acquired • Make content decisions that give credibility • Instructional delivery • Facilitate student learning • Instructional evaluation • Assessing student achievement • Assessing instructional process
Personal characteristics Attitudes Intellectual abilities Creativity Interpersonal skills Behavior Considerate Cooperative Complimentary Friendly Involved Professional organizations Professional Personal Competency
Desirable Attributes of CTE Teachers Based on Research • Cooperation, kindness, patience, understanding • Varied interests, excellent communication skills, pleasant appearance • Pleasing manners, humor, positive attitude, consistency without rigidity • Interest in students, commitment to teaching, acceptable values system • Outstanding occupational skills and knowledge