The document discusses the teacher's role in the educational process. It identifies several common teacher roles including planner, assessor, manager, language resource, and reflector. As planner, the teacher prepares lessons and anticipates problems. As assessor and monitor, the teacher evaluates learner performance, behavior, and progress. As manager, the teacher controls the classroom dynamic and maintains discipline. The teacher acts as a language resource by clarifying language and modeling. As reflector, the teacher reviews lessons to improve teaching. A teacher may take on different roles depending on the lesson, stage, activity, and learners.

2. Session 3. Teacher’s role in the educational
process.
Plan
1. Review of the learners’ and teachers’ functions in the classroom. Practice
2. Teacher’s role in the classroom. Common teacher’s roles.
3. Practice

3. Teacher role is different teacher’s behavior at
different stages of the lesson to manage the
classroom and successfully guide learners
through the lesson.

4. Common teacher roles

5.  Planner
 Prepares and reflects on the lesson before teaching, anticipates problems and selects material
 Assessor
Assessing learners’ performance, behaviour, effort and contribution. Evaluating learners’
behaviour and contribution. Testing learners’ progress and level. Providing feedback on work,
progress, behaviour and contribution.
 Contributor
 Contributing ideas or information other than language, e.g. participating in discussions.
 Counsellor
 Giving learners advice on difficulties they may have outside of their language class. Showing
understanding of issues learners bring to the classroom from outside.
 Diagnostician
 Diagnosing and evaluating learners’ needs and difficulties.
 Facilitator
 Developing learner autonomy. Helping learners to access resources. Providing opportunities for
individual learning.

6.  Language resource
 Clarifying language. Correcting learner language. Consolidating learner language.
Contextualizing language. Eliciting language. Explaining language. Modelling language.
Checking understanding of language. Personalizing language. Providing language input.
 Manager
 Managing the learners, the lessons and procedures in the classroom, e.g. controlling the
group dynamic, deciding oninteraction patterns, demonstrating tasks and activities,
building rapport, encouraging learners, giving instructions, motivating learners,
maintaining discipline, responding to classroom problems as they happen.
 Monitor/Observer
 Monitoring, observing and collecting information about learner performance, behaviour,
contribution, effort and progress. Keeping a written record of learners’ work.
 Narrator Narrating stories and things that have happened.

7.  Reflector
 Teachers who look back on the lessons they have taught and think about
what worked and what did not work, in order to improve their teaching.
 Rapport builder
 Tries to create good relationships with and between learners
Teacher role depend on:
- Teacher and learner context
- The lesson aims
- The stage of the lesson
- The type of activity
- Age of the learners
- Level of knowledge
- Attitude of the learners