The Roles of the Teacher Many stude

The Roles of the Teacher

Many students have a very hard time dealing with mathematical concepts as they feel anxiety toward the experience. It has been attributed to one of five sources including: myths associated with mathematics, out of class experiences, expectations, reading and language facility, and classroom stress. In the past, Mathematic were taught by using mainly the role learning/teaching system and practicing routing questions for tests and exams. In the United Kingdom, the culture of maths was hardly non-existence and acceptable not to pass the subject. This has been a draw back in several areas of work where employees have been unable to complete simple fraction, and trigonometry concepts. Carol Taylor, operational director of NIACE, said that people had a “huge numeracy problem” but many people saw being bad at maths as a “badge of honour”. Nevertheless, in Zimbabwe, Mathematic and Literacy are the most important subjects of which it is obligatory to pass in order to be employable. This essay will describe my roles as a numeracy teacher whose responsibilities is to assist learners develop critical thinking, problem solving skills, and understanding of numerical concepts consequently discarding the maths phobia myth.
The roles, responsibilities and boundaries of a teacher are so numerous, varied and constantly evolving, Macdonald advocates that a teacher has to be ‘Omni capable’ and flexible to be able to handle any situation which transpires in the classroom. Walklin agrees with the latter notion by reflecting teacher as a ‘jack of all trades’. Both of these authors concur on the multi skills and responsibilities a teacher should possess in order to be an effective educator.
My role responsibilities in the Numeracy Lifelong learning Sector is to value all of my learners individually and equally to create high quality teaching that enables effective and stimulating opportunities for development and progression of all learners. My duty as a teacher is to ensure that my learners achieve the aims and learning outcomes of basic numeracy functional skills that have been set in my scheme and lesson plan. The Lifelong Learning UK professional body states in its professional values, that the teacher should always implement the,” Principles of learning and ways to provide learning activities to meet curriculum requirements and the needs of all learners.” A fore to scheming and planning numeracy lesson an initial assessment has to be performed. Initial assessment is a method of evaluating your learners in order to be able to support them while consecutively meeting their learning level of needs appropriately, it is a bench mark from which learner’s progress and achievement can be measured. It does not just 'happen' but must be planned and carried out in such a way that learners and staff can see what the benefits are. Initial assessment can be carried out in various ways such as completing application forms, open days, impassive