{"id":5595,"date":"2017-07-05T13:34:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T09:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2017-07-05T13:36:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T09:36:49","slug":"5595-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/5595-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Side Of The Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5598\" src=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/nen-america-needs-good-teachers.jpg\" alt=\"nen-america-needs-good-teachers\" width=\"473\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/nen-america-needs-good-teachers.jpg 473w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/nen-america-needs-good-teachers-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/nen-america-needs-good-teachers-190x98.jpg 190w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/nen-america-needs-good-teachers-280x144.jpg 280w, https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/nen-america-needs-good-teachers-445x229.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Though we talk often about learners and their roles, it\u2019s just as important to pay attention to the teachers themselves. According to Hoyle\u2019s and Harmer\u2019s lists, there are a number of roles ascribed to the teacher in a general educational setting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A representative of society (teachers morals)<\/li>\n<li>A judge (gives marks)<\/li>\n<li>A resource (conveys knowledge)<\/li>\n<li>A helper (provides guidance for student difficulties)<\/li>\n<li>A referee (resolves conflicts)<\/li>\n<li>A detective (catches rule breakers)<\/li>\n<li>An object of identification (has traits that students imitate)<\/li>\n<li>A limiter of anxiety (helps students with impulses)<\/li>\n<li>An ego-supporter (helps with students\u2019 self-confidence)<\/li>\n<li>A group leader (establishes group climate<\/li>\n<li>A parents surrogate (acts as object of bids for attention)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Knowing one\u2019s role can be very motivational as a teacher, which is why it\u2019s important to be familiar with these kinds of lists.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Peter Medgyes, &#8220;Teacher-centered and learner-centered approaches\u201d, <em>The Non-Native Teacher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Though we talk often about learners and their roles, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1925,35,34],"tags":[1266,1964,686,1724],"class_list":["post-5595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-studentnews-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","category-teachernews-trainingconferences-didyouknow-facts-interestingwords-interestingpeople-onthisday-interestingwordsandexpressions","tag-morals","tag-roles","tag-students","tag-teacher","cat_1925","cat_35","cat_34"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5602,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions\/5602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}