What are the Multifarious Roles of a Teacher?

The role of the present day teacher has become very challenging, complex and multi-faceted on account of the following reasons:

(1) There is the explosion of knowledge and radical changes are occurring in the context areas of all disciplines- humanities, sciences and social sciences.

(2) The teacher has to keep in view the new concepts like individualized instruction, micro-teaching, programmed learning, teaching machines and team- leaching etc.

(3) The teacher had to make the proper use of the mass media like the radio and television.

(4) The teacher has to handle many children who come from better socio-economic groups and family backgrounds and at times may be more informed than (he teacher who comes from lower socio-economic strata

(5) The teacher must take into account the explosion of expectations. Students from weaker sections of the society are coining in large numbers to recieve education and they have to be treated on equal fooling and given due care.

(6) The attitude of a teacher to life has to be democratic secular and socialist; the ideals set forth in our Constitution.

(7) The present’ teacher is supposed to have a broad view of the subjects he teaches. He cannot afford to teach his subject in isolation.

(8) A teacher must adequately familiars himself with concepts like work experience etc.

(9) The present teacher is expected to be up-date and conscious of various explosions – explosion of knowledge, explosion of population, explosion of frustrations, explosion of expectations and explosion of technology etc.

Multifarious Roles of a Teacher

(1) Parent surrogate

(2) Ego-supporter

(3) Guide

(4) Resource person

(5) Detective

(6) Facilitator of learning

(7) Limiter or reducer of anxiety

(8) Referee

(9) Group leader

(10) Inspirer and exampler

(11) Judge

(12) Confident

(13) Friend and philosopher

(14) Upholder of the norms and values

(15) Moral educator

(16) Democrat

(17) Rationalist

(18) Secularist

(19) Initiator