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Role of the Teacher as a Manager in Teaching Educational

Technology

Abstract :

In the present study researcher tried to explain the role of teacher as a manager in

Educational Technology. Teachers role as a manager is concerned with the three phases

of teaching namely, pre-teaching, teaching and post-teaching. In educational technology

these three phases are important methods of teaching. Here teacher has considered as a

Manager in educational technology will be studied.


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Introduction :

Educational technology has affected the conventional roles and it has opened up the

new areas of teacher functions such as management of resources and management of

learning. For their fist role, teachers have a range of media to assist and supplement the

instructional work. For their role of management of learning, teachers specify the

learning intentions, select the topic, identify the stimulus situation, determine media,

manage teaching and finally conduct evaluation and modify the instructions in light of

the evaluation results.

Educational technology has provided a scientific base to the educational theory and

practice. It has provided an impetus to classroom research because in its functional

utility, the empirical findings on educational practice are utilized o improve the same.

The introduction of educational technology has caused modernization in the teaching-

learning climate of the institutions. It has also given an opportunity to the learners to be

exposed to professionally designed programmers on computers.

Educational technology supplements teachers in their instructional programmes

through the structured lessons for remedial, enrichment or drill purposes. The learnersget the training of self instruction and teachers are relieved of the burden of routine

repetition for exercise and revision purposes.

Through a systematic organization of content and instruction and integrating the

teacher directed instruction with structured material, teachers may save sometime of their

routine teaching. That time may be utilized for creative work and quality improvement.

The teaching operations ultimately create the appropriate conditions of learning for

achieving the desired goals. It can be organized effectively at different levels by

complying appropriate teaching activities. Teaching profession is based upon a

systematic body of knowledge that has been derived from social, psychological,

historical, political and economical spheres of life. It is also influenced by the religious

and spiritual beliefs of a society.


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A manager is basically at the helm of any organization. Teacher has to take

decisions, control the situation, be spontaneous and resourceful to change decisions for

better functioning of the organization if situation so demands, etc. We all are familiar

with managers of a company, of a school or a college, etc. Let us apply our knowledge

of managerial competencies in the case of instruction, and see how a teacher performs the

role of a manager.

Teachers, like executives in other settings, are expected to provide leadership to

students and to coordinate a variety of activities as they and students work

interdependently to accomplish academic and social goals to schooling.

Objectives :

1. To study the role of the teacher in the Pre-teaching Phase.

2. To study the role of the teacher in the Teaching Phase.

3. To study the role of the teacher in the Post-teaching Phase.

Teaching is the social and professional activity. It is a process of development.

Teaching is system of actions which induce learning through interpersonal relationship.

Teaching technology is the application of philosophical, sociological and scientific

knowledge to teaching for achieving some specific learning objectives. Teaching is

purposeful activity. The ultimate goal of teaching is to bring around development of a

child. The knowledge and practice which help in realizing the goal is the content matter

of teaching technology.

Teaching is an art as well as science because teaching can be studied objectively and

scientifically. Teaching has the scientific foundation. This has evolved the concept of

teaching technology. The main responsibility of a teacher in the classroom is to ensure

that goals of education are attained. These can be specified as learning in terms of


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Role of the Teacher in the Teaching Phase

The teacher becomes a part of the teaching-learning process, and is identified as an

instructional input. In the following paragraph you will see how a teacher plays the role

of a manager during the instructional teaching- learning process. Examine the following

situations:

i) Sensing that students are becoming bored, a teacher decides to stop teaching.

ii) Realizing that a student has not understood a point fully, a teacher decides to

simplify the explanation with more examples.

iii) In order to make a lesson more interesting, a teacher decides to narrate a

related study.

iv) As students start making too much noise and could not be managed by a

teacher, she decides to let them go out and play.

v) As the prepared plan does not prove effective to make students understand the

point, a teacher decides to deviate from the plan and tries out another

sequencing of learning experiences.

In order to bring about meaningful learning, a teacher, with his/her resourceful ness

and spontaneity is deciding to change the mode of operation, to suit to the needs of learners. In these situations, a teacher is functioning as a designer/manager/decision

maker. In fact he/she is at a transitional stage or shifting from the role of a participant as

instructional input to a different mode as a decision maker.

You all must be familiar with such comments that people make: she can manage the

class very well or students are well disciplined in his class. In such situations it is

obvious that a teacher is effectively managing students with alternative solutions to

problems as and when they emerge in the class. These alternative solutions to problems

as and when they emerge in the class. These alternative solutions depends on many

factors like, age group of students, physical fitness of the group, general climate of the

school ( if annual day is approaching, or fun fair is due, and students are in a fun-making

mode) etc. An effective teacher would succeed in maintaining discipline and managing

students well without losing his/her cool and at the same time the confidence of students.


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Teacher for being an effective manager in such situations requires a lot of knowledge of

the psychology of child/adolescent. A teacher has to be empathetic, tactful, patient and

tolerant.

Role of the Teacher in the Post-teaching Phase

Post-teaching phase, as described in the introduction of the section, is the one that

involves teachers activities such as analyzing evaluation results to determine students

learning, especially their problems in understanding specific areas, to reflect on the

teaching by self, and to decide on the necessary changes to be brought in the system in

the next instructional period. Examine the following activities of a teacher:

i) Teacher analyses the written performance of students (of class HI) and

realizes that 80% have not been able to do single digit multiplication

correctly.

ii) Teacher goes through the plan of the lesson on multiplication and realizes that

students knowledge of addition was presumed, but not revised.

iii) Realizing that multiplication is based on thorough mastery of addition the

teacher decides to start all over again with addition.

In these three situations, the teacher is a designer in the post-teaching phase-designer

of the next instructional system. We can summarize by saying that in the post-teaching

phase, a teacher analyses results, reflects on self and modifies that teaching learning

process, all with purpose of being an effective as a teacher.


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Conclusion:

A teacher will be able to efficiently perform different roles with and other educationalexperiences that he/she ha gained. This educational experience adds to a teachers

thinking, observation, ability and skills of management. A teacher who performs these

roles in an integrated manner is able to perceive the need for the all-round development

of students personality and provide appropriate learning opportunities t achieve the pre-

specified goals of education.

As a teacher require a certain amount of teaching competencies such as the capacity to

plan instructional sessions, to prepare appropriate instructional material, to conduct group

and individualized instruction, and to assess student progress. Similarly, he should have

sufficient ability in diagnostic and evaluation skills such ad ability to gather and analyze

data related to student behavior, to design, develop and administer appropriate

instruments to measure student development and the ability to interpret objectively and

findings obtained through the use of such tools. He should also have the required

communications skills, etc.


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