1. The Role of the
Teacher as the Leader
of the Class

2. A
Presentation
By

3. M. S. Rahman
Principal
DPS Mewat

4. Introduction
• A good teacher is good leader. You are all
leaders. Because you are good leaders, you
are good teachers.
• What do great teachers do that you should
be doing in your role as a class teacher?
• Good teaching is universal and so is the
techniques applied in teaching irrespective
of the subject.
• The tips I am going we are going to
discuss are not new but are articulate and
systematic.

5. Study Your Subject
Know Your Students
• It is a famous saying.
• It is not enough to know your subject
alone.
• It is essential to know your students-their
talents, their prior experience and needs.
• Check from where are you starting from.
• That directs your teaching and set the
goals.
• Goals that are clear-achievable and
challenging.

6. Focus on Students
• Some teachers think that they are all
knowing and their role is to impart
knowledge to students who are empty
vessels.
• Best teachers see themselves as guides.
• Focus on your students and focus on all of
them not a part of them or a select few.
• Enable them to learn and help them to
learn.

7. Exude Passion and
Purpose as Well
• The difference between a good teacher and
a great teacher is not expertise but
passion.
• You should have passion for teaching.
• If the teacher has passion for teaching, the
student will develop passion for learning.
• You can not fake passion.
• Sitting and teaching do not go together

8. Safe Learning Environment
• Create a safe learning environment
in the class.
• Neat, tidy, well ventilated class
room.
• Display the students’ work(charts,
models, art work) in the Class.
• The learning environment should be
emotionally, intellectually and
psychologically safe.

9. Motivation
• Motivation is 9/10th
of teaching.
• How do you motivate? Endless methods. Very
simple ones. Photos, charts, stories etc.
• Praise the students for small successes.
• Give your students a real sense of purpose, the
feeling that he/she is valuable.
• Recognition, praise, reward and encouragement
are various tools of motivation. Show that you
trust them and care about them.
• Look something positive, highlight them.
• Interesting anecdotes motivate you. They remain
vivid in your memory.

10. A Good Lesson Plan
• If you have prepared a lesson, you soon assume
an excellent class control. You become natural
leader.
• Put some motivation charts regularly. Ask
interesting questions. Exchange pleasantries,
establish rapport and make a prompt start.
• Tell them what you are going to teach. Encourage
lively interaction. Encourage them. Involve them.
Have wonderful class participation.
• Encourage them to ask questions. Challenge
them. Be innovative.
• Do use some technology in the classroom, audio
cassettes, video cassettes, power point
presentation, OHP etc.

11. Make Your Lesson Simple
Effective Use of Teaching Aids
• Breakdown complex ideas into simple one.
• Communication is the essence of good teaching.
• Create receptive environment in the class.
• Be open to students. The student must
understand you and what you taught.
• Give example, show them. Involve them. Involve
them in making teaching aids. It works wonders.
• Try to use teaching aids as much as possible and
in almost all subjects.
• The dictum  You tell me, I forget. You show
me, I understand. You involve me, I remember.

12. Practice Vulnerability Without
Sacrificing Credibility
• To some it appears that the teacher is all
knowing. Though he knows all the answer but
the fact is that the teacher is not all knowing.
• Sometimes the best answer the teacher can give if
he does not know is that ‘I do not know’ instead
of beating about the bush.
• By doing so he/she gains the trust of students
instead of loosing his/her credibility.
• That the teacher is co-learner.
• A good teacher is one who is still learning.

13. Teach From the Heart
• Put your heart and soul in your teaching.
• The best teaching is not formulaic or
impersonal, it is personal.
• The act of teaching requires you to explore
your own sense of identity.
• If you do not fully know yourself, you
cannot fully know your students, and
therefore, you cannot connect with them,
relate with them.

14. Repeat the Important Points
• If you want your students to learn and
remember, you need to give them more
than once.
• ‘The first time it is heard; the second time
it is recognised and the third time it is
learned.’
• Be consistent without being boring. Find
new ways to express the same points
particularly the points. And then confirm
assimilation. Reinforce the correct
answer.

15. Ask Good Questions
• Good teacher ask good questions.
• Learning is exploring the unknown and such exploration
begins with questions.
• Prepare your questions.
• Questions should be challenging, searching, interesting
which can spark lively discussion, which can make them
think and which open door for deeper understanding such
as ‘how does that work?’ and ‘what does that mean?’
• If you want to get to the heart of something, ask ‘why’ 5
times.
• Provoke them and their thought process. Challenge their
thinking. Listen to them. Stop talking and start listening.
• Effective learning is a dialogue not a monologue.
• Ask questions but wait for a few seconds – be comfortable
with his silence. In those few seconds, productive thinking
occurs.

16. Make Them Think
• The best teaching leaders help people learn how
to think on their own rather than telling them
what to think.
• Tools to be developed to infuse thinking in
classroom.
• People with thinking ability are successful.
• Open up children’s mind. Ideal lesson is to get
the students think. We are using 2% of our
brain.
• World needs better thinkers. Children can do
wonders.
• We need not be negative thinkers.
• Develop originality and creativity in your
students.

17. Let Your Students Teach Others
• You are not the only one your students learn
from. They also learn on their own and from
their peers.
• That is how the triangle of learning works.
• May be their friends has an insight that they had
not thought of. Everybody has a piece of relevant
information, making everyone a teacher and a
learner.
• Encourage group learning. How many have done
it?
• Project work, Group leaning, Self learning, Co-
operative learning.

18. Avoid Using the Same Approach
• All students do not learn the same way.
• All students do not learn the same day.
• Good teachers believe that every student
can learn but they understand that
students learn differently.
• Some are visual. Some grasp the abstract.
Some learn best by reading. Some learn
slowly. Some are ‘late bloomers.’
• Never underestimate and never condemn a
child.

19. Never Stop Teaching
• Effective teaching is about the quality of the
relationship between the teacher and the student.
It does not end when the class or the workday is
over.
• Be innovative.
• One of the most important ingredients of
teaching is loving it. There is a famous saying:
‘More than the calf wants to suck is mother’s
milk, the mother wants to impart the milk to the
calf’
• Teaching is loving teaching. Always and every
time.

20. Conclusion
• Be patient, innovative and interesting.
• Vary your style, your voice, your tone and your
method.
• Some of us still cling to the old method. We teach
them the way we were taught. The same chalk
and talk method.
• Knowledge is becoming obsolete.
• Teach them how to learn.
• Teach them how to adapt to change. The only
permanent thing is change.
• Hence be innovative, vary your style and make
teaching-learning interesting