Role model
Do you feel the instructor must be a role model for the students? I do!
Yes we do! Students are there to learn & instructors become the model for which they will learn from.
Hi Robby!
I totally agree! It's equally as important for an instructor to role model as it is to provide instruction. Instructor's have to demonstrate behaviors and attitudes that are appropriate and acceptable in the work place.
Good job and keep up the good work!
Jane Davis
ED107 Facilitator
I do believe that the instructor should be a role model for his or her students. Not only should they teach the topic but also show them how to act as well.
I agree. Modeling a behavior is a key way to show student what to do.
Absolutely Kenneth!
Instructors have so much influence over students and must - as you put it - move them toward professional behaviors.
Keep up the good work!
Jane Davis
ED107 Facilitator
Jane,
Exactly. We need to understand that we have a different relationship with our students than the one we had with our employees. Though we want to display professional behavior and both describe/define and "expect" professional standards, students just cannot (at least in some situations)be held yet to those standards. That's the line we walk: tempering professional behavior and standards by the realization that we must always be moving students TOWARD that goal and accept that that is the nature of this beast, as it were.
Hi Kenneth!
Please define "real world" behavior a little more in depth.
In my opinion, "real world" behavior is demonstrating multiple typess of interactions and behaviors. The difference between school "real world" and work "real world" is 1) we are paying to learn and perform, and the other is 2) we are being paid to learn and perform.
Keep up the good work!
Jane Davis
ED107 Facilitator
Regarding modeling "real world" behavior: I think that most students THINK that we should model industry behavior practice as they want and are paying for to some degree our experience. They are sometimes of two minds though. For some students (not all by any means) this is a little too real. We walk a fine line (and I think properly so) between what we as industry professionals know as "good role model" behavior and what some student expections are of a school teacher's "role model" behavior. Nothing can make walking this line easy but I like to think that if I just keep reminding myself what I am here for I can let that guide my individual decisions on a day to day basis. Oh, right: that's the students improvement toward industry success.
Hi Charles!
I'm a firm believer that instructors must set the stage for learning to occur and one way to do that is role modeling.
Keep up the good work!
Jane Davis
ED107 Facilitator
Could not agree more with you about being a role model. The nature of the vocational school with which I am pleased to be associated is such that I have opportunities to take courses and workshops given by guest craftsmen and instructors from other comparable schools right beside my own students. They get to see me struggle, fail, practice, perform homework, try again, and exert myself even as they are exerting theselves to acquire additional skills. I have found that my being a student gives me great credibility and acceptance as a facilitator/instructor.
Hi David!
No matter what type of student we have, they have a set expectaton of what attitudes and behaviors instructors should possess. You are absolutlely correct about respect - it is definitely earned. Whether we think so or not, instructors must set the classroom standard by role modeling acceptable attitudes and behaviors.
Good job!
Jane Davis
ED107 Facilitator
Whether you are "good" or "bad", you are a role model. You have to assume that students will look to you for guidence on how they should carry themselves in their professions of choice.
They will take on characteristics of you, good or bad, and weave it into who they will become.
They will most likely say to themselves "I want to be like..." or "I don't want to be like...". Either way you have influenced that student.
Most definately, the instructors must behave in a professional manner at all times as they are seen as role models by the students in their class room and on campus. How can we as instructors correct them on language and behavior when we are doing the opposite.We are seen as role models.
I believe that we are all role models whether we want to be or not. The question is whether we decide to act like role models or not. My school has 12 full time instructors and only a few really act like role models for the students. Those that don't, generally, don't receive the same amount of respect from the students as those that do. This lack of respect really shows up in the small amount of classroom time that we have. In lab settings, the students will walk past several instructors just to talk to a more respected one.
I respectfully disagree. We have to be role models in class. I just cannot understand why you disagree???
scott
Yes. Without question. This is so important. In criminal justice we have to set the stage, be a role model. I have been very fortunate to have had some great facilitators in my time, which I have learned from and actually cloned my style from. We always set the example of what we stand for . This is so important.
Scott
I don't know about 'must' be a role model. I think a good instructor will be a good role model, but I had some teachers that I thought were terrible role models, but they knew the material and could teach it.
I didn't like them personally, and thought they were jerks, but I did learn a lot in their classes. That said, if they had also been good role models it would have been a better learning environment.
I say no this is a term that is thrown around too much because of what everyone think should be a perfect world
You must be a rule model. this gives confidence to the students that you know what you are talking about.
