Teacher´s Attitude
There are some factors that affect students Learning-Process such as economic situations, cultural aspects, cognitive problems, and one point very important it is related with the teacher´s attitude that is the concern in this paper. Those are internal and external situations that really affect directly positive and negative, the student´s Learning-Process.
When we refer to the Teacher´s Attitude in the Learning Process, it involves a plenty of situations for instance, lack of confidence, lack of coherence in the subject, lack of motivation, and in some cases the conditions or the environment under which teachers work.
Before I start to develop those situations, I am going to give a concept about what Attitude is? The word attitude (from Latin aptus) is defined within the framework of social psychology as a subjective or mental preparation for action. It defines outward and visible postures and human beliefs. Attitudes determine what each individual will see, hear, think and do. They are rooted in experience and do not become automatic routine conduct.
Attitude means the individual's prevailing tendency to respond favorably or unfavorably to an object (person or group of people, institutions or events). Attitudes can be positive (values) or negative (prejudice).
Since the first day of classes students are paying attentions, and watching up about his or hers teacher´s attitude, how she/he is? The way she/he is teaching, as a result of that, if the instructor has a lack of confidence regarding his/hers subject matter, students feel it. This issue happened when the professor does not care about his/her teaching. Unfortunately there are teachers just waiting for a salary or even a simple job. In this profession, we as educators must be confidence in what we are doing, In order to avoid uninteresting students in our subject matter, we need to be secure, believe in ourselves.
Lack of coherence in the teaching learning process, means that the professor is not well prepared, students are so intelligent they perceive if the instructor is improvising or not, so they lose the interest, provoking student´s distraction, lack of class control. We need to be careful, if we are a really educators, we must be self-prepared, because we are educating people, with the purpose of integrating into our society capable, to think, react, through problems, and give possible solutions to the problem presented.
One the most important aspect presented in this reaction, it is the motivation. Teacher´s attitude affect directly, the student’s motivation positively or negatively, in this position we have two ways help or destroy.
If we want to motivate our students, it is necessary start by ourselves, because if we as educators are not motivated, this feeling is transferring into the student´s mind. The class must be innovated, the activities, the techniques, the method need to renew, in order to catch student´s attention, and so that our motivation is going to splash into the environment, motivation is like a kind of contagious song, if he/she likes or get into, they feel our need, our speciation, our goals, for that reason his/hers desire is going to, or become in just one. As teachers, should be able to do something beyond our teaching and if can make or have a good relationship with our students, in order to achieve that they can see not just like the serious professor, it is even more than that, become into theirs friend, provoking better comprehension into each other, trying to know what are theirs necessities, abilities, doing so we get strong results. According to Barry (1999), students are humans first and learners second.That means, if we want to get good results in the academicals process, teachers should be interact with theirs students, become confident, I consider that this issue should be apply as the first strategy, get our students as the teacher´s friend, with that objective achieved, learning process is going be much easier. Sometimes it could be something dangerous, we must take care about it, in order to distinguish the teacher´s role, for example; a student could be thinking, I am the teacher´s friend, so I am going to pass the course, it is not the purpose obviously, be the teacher´s friend mean, be the person who listen that student in a difficult situation, try to know what are goal he or she want, with the purpose of helping them. So as a result of that be the teacher´s friend does not mean be the teacher´s pet, because that is another connotation.
The question, how our attitude as educators affect the students? It is very simple; we are educating, teaching, instructing, and forming good people in order to introduce into the society. Students are watching up to another, looking for a model (teacher, parents, mentor, and friend), that´s why attitude is very important in the teaching-learning process. Because in some cases students try to imitate the model, good or bad they are going to imitate, so the idea it´s that imitate a good model, for the students benefits.
Sometimes the environment in which professor works, affect his/her attitude positively or negatively, for instance if the instructor is working in a school or high school with an excellent infrastructure, excellent materials, the school or high school location is not difficult to access, so I mean the professor has all the comfortable conditions in order to work with the best effort, there is nothing to do, just make our job that is educating. On the other hand, a teacher is going to teach in a school with terrible conditions, regarding infrastructure, very difficult to access, is not the same attitude of the instructor, affecting directly students learning process.
To summarize, we choose this job, which involve plenty of situation in which we are not costumed to, but it is something mandatory do our best, teacher´s attitude toward teaching learning process plays a very important and significant role, that´s why we must be enthusiastic even more than optimistic. Student´s positive attitude depend on the teacher´s attitude, it has a relationship between both of them, because the attitude of the professor mold the students one.
Motivation one of the most important point discuss in this paper, motivation is not something that I choose or not, is a little bite more deeper, is part of our process as an educator. Professor motivated equal students motivated, result goal achieved. We are molding people it´s something that we need to care about that situation, as much we motivated ourselves the teaching learning process become so easy, because is something that we like very much, in addition students reflect our way of being.
Furthermore, teacher´s dedication that he or she gives to the job, increase in a high level the student´s self-esteem, and getting interest in the subject. The environment where the professor is teaching, I consider that it should not be affect the teacher´s performance. Because it is supposed we have vocation, that´s what we want. Finally if we want to get succeed in our profession (educators) motivation is the key.
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