DEVELOPING

CLASSROOM
SKILLS
Learner’s &
Teacher’s Roles

Prepared by GROUP 5
LEARNER’S
ROLES
SELF LEARNER
 Student select their own real-world projects and identify
possible solutions.
 Organize their project and manage progress made on
them.
TEAM MEMBER
 Share their expertise with other student
 Actively involved in advancing the project

 Work collaboratively
KNOWLEDGE MANAGER
 The focus of the role is on the development of
knowledge of knowledge products
 Activities demanded of this role include formulating
questions, searching for information, collecting and
analyzing data, and designing reports and presentation.
ENROLLING IN CLASSES
 Students must follow a series of steps to complete an
effective enrollment process.
 students should prepare for enrollment by becoming
aware of important dates and information concerning
registration, and looking into specific details and
requirements - both academically and relating to
disabilities - for the classes they are interested in.
COMMUNICATING WITH INSTRUCTOR
While talking with instructor:
 Be on time for scheduled appointments

 Be calm and courteous, and do not interrupt

 If appropriate, make them aware of your past successes,

and suggest how they could enhance your future success
 Discuss classroom accommodations, teaching
techniques, and testing procedures that have been most
helpful in the past.
 If possible, engage instructors in a problem solving
process when solutions to the problem are not obvious
CONTROLLER
 Teachers are in charge of the class and of the activity taking place
 Roles:

 Take the roll

 Tell students things
 Organise drills
 Read aloud
 Exemplify the qualities of a teacher-fronted classroom
o Disadvantages:
Denies students access to their own experiential learning
Cuts down on opportunities for students to speak
Lack of variaty in activities and classroom atmosphere
ORGANISER
Arrange students to do various activities including:
 Giving the students information
 Telling them how they are going to do the activity
 Putting them into pairs/groups
 Closing things down when it is time to stop

ROLE OF
ORGANISER
ASSESOR
 Functioning to:
 Offer feedback and correction
 Grade students in various way
 Teacher must make students know how and for what
they are being assessed
 Acting as an assessor requires teacher to be more
sensitive with students’ possible reactions
PROMPTER
 Needed when students are ‘lost for words’
 Teacher should:
 Offer words or phrases
 Suggest what could come next in the paragraph a student is
writing
 Prompt students in monolingual groups to speak English
rather than using their mother tongue
 Must be done sensitively and encouragingly, with
discretion
PARTICIPANT
 Teacher join the activity in teacher’s own right, with
great skill and sensitivity
 Advantages:

 Teacher can enliven things from the inside

 Students enjoy having the teacher with them
o Disadvantage:

Teacher can easily dominate the proceedings

RESOURCE
 Teacher must be helpful and available but avoid spoon-
feed so that the students will not be over-reliant on
teacher
 Roles:

 Encourage students to use resource material for

themselves
 Encourage students to become more independent in
their learning
 Guide students to look for information they need
TUTOR
 Needed when students are working on longer projects
 Combining the roles of prompter and resource

 Provide chance to:

 make students feel supported and helped
 Enhance general class atmosphere greatly
 As a teacher, we must make sure that we do not intrude too
much or too little
OBSERVER
 Purposes :
 Give students useful group and individual feedback
 Judge the success of the different materials and
activities teacher take into lessons
 Teacher should avoid drawing attention to him/herself

 Teacher must be able to work and observe

simultaneously, listening,watching and absorbing
THANK
YOU