Role of teacher and learner

     (Teacher and learner )

                      A-) In the activity-based teaching:

The role of the teacher in this method is the role of the leader who leads an orchestra that plays a nice and regular tune that wins the admiration of the audience in a theater because of its harmony. He starts his presentation with a warm-up, then he does his presentation.

The presentation process must address the 5 senses and the inner feelings of the learner. The teacher uses his mouth, gestures, motion, smiles, miming, acting, classroom management, pointing and signals.

     The teacher claps for the third time announcing the time of the group work or team work.  Each group or team includes a presenter, an organizer, a dictator, a timer, a writer and an evaluator. Each group competes with the other group in presenting their projects in a comparing and competitive way.

 The third and fourth group evaluate the previous groups' work in a form of written reports and these reports can be presented through an academic interview inside the classroom.

In the GTM method, the teacher starts his lesson with a review for what has been taught in the previous lessons. He uses his blackboard and the set-books as teaching tools in presentation. He can't consult any other resources.

He takes care of his regular blackboard to include the ideas, the new vocabulary. He neglects functioning the new vocabulary, idioms, language notes, language expressions, language skills, topic text, language culture or literature. Besides, he rarely uses technology in teaching.

Can the 2 roles exchange?

1- A perfect teacher:

    Neither can teachers afford to distance themselves from the

students they teach. In the new, learner-centered environment, they

must be prepared to learn both about and from their students. 

The belief that teacher and student should maintain a partnership

based on mutual learning dominates thinking about pedagogical

praxis to an ever-increasing extent—from the elementary grades

to the college years. The term "dialogue education" has been

used to characterize this more equitable relationship between

teacher and student:

"Two way, open dialogue needs to be a part of all learning activities" .

It has been demonstrated that class discussion in which students

actively participate and are encouraged to raise questions and pose

problems themselves may greatly increase critical thinking skills in

students .

2-A perfect Learner: 

    Just as teachers have had to alter their own methods and shift from being their students’ sole source of knowledge to one of the many sources, students also have had to shift from being passive receptacles of knowledge to active participants and even to being teachers themselves.

Research in the areas of  teaching practices, cooperative learning, and technology have opened new doors and have altered the roles and responsibilities of students today.