I am happy to have gotten back my assignment with a good
grade. Looking back at the steps I took to the get the assignment completed was
not difficult but time consuming. However, I can say that hard work does bring
success. As Educators, we sometimes forget the roles that we have to play to
bring about learning in the classroom and in everyday life. This assignment has reminded me of the seven roles and how importance each one is in helping our
children to succeed. The mediator, the interpreter and designer of
learning programmes and materials, the leader, the scholar,
researcher and lifelong learners, community, citizenship and pastoral,
the assessor and the learning area/ subject specialist.
I
mostly like the role of the mediator because my role as a mediator is to understand the needs
of my students, acknowledge how learning environment may affect them and find
ways and means to solve whatever problems they may encounter. At times it may seem
very difficult to accomplish but this course has taught me that anything is
possible with the right frame of mind. Hence, I will help my students organize their thought processes and
channel them in a meaningful way whenever I see failure written on their faces.
Being better prepared will help me as a teacher to meet the needs of my
students and in the long run they will be better equipped with the knowledge
gained from it.
Also the role of an assessor is very
important because his/ her job is to identify the needs of the learners, planning
and designing learning programs, tracking learners’ progress and diagnosing and
implementing new methods. Not only should educators monitor the learning
patterns of their learners but also their own teaching patterns because
learners are affected by teaching methods as well as classroom environments and
other factors. Therefore, as an assessor my objective is to be on cue with my
students performance, noting that assessment is an essential feature of
teaching and learning and should continuously be integrated into the teaching
and learning process.
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