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5. Group work. Discuss with your partner the following questions:

  1. What years are considered formative in students’ life?

  2. How can a teacher incorporate, facilitate and encourage intellectual and social development in the formative years of a student's life?

  3. How can a teacher uplift his\her student socially, intellectually, emotionally, and personally?

  4. What can a teacher foster in his\her children?

  5. How can a teacher engage and challenge the students intellectually?

  6. What teaching methods are most effective - formal or informal? Sustain your answer with examples.

  7. Why is avoiding favoritism important?

  8. How can you enforce discipline by firmly setting classroom rules? Give examples of these rules.

  9. What conflicts can arise within a classroom frame? What are the ways to deal with them?

  10. How can you adjust your teaching styles to meet individual needs of your students? Sustain your answer with examples.

  11. How can you work with parents for the betterment of their child's future?

  12. What is your understanding of the statement ’be a teacher out of choice, and not by default’?

  13. How can a teacher avoid indulging in unethical behavior, and at all times maintain the dignity of a teacher-student relationship?

  14. Do you agree that being a teacher does not make you a 'know-it-all'; so it's important to become a partner in the learning cycle with the students? Sustain your answer with examples.

  15. Which of the enumerated responsibilities are the hardest to accomplish? Why?

6. Make up and act out: a) an interview between a school headmaster and a young teacher who came to apply for the position of a teacher at a specialized school; b) a conversation between an old retired school teacher and an assistant teacher who came to substitute him\her.

7. Look at the table below. Which of the functions do you find most challenging\difficult? Why?

8. Read the following text and answer the questions to it.

  1. Why is the role of a teacher in education system pivotal?

  2. Why does the teacher decide if the education system is a success or a failure?

  3. Why does a teacher play a crucial role in the development of society? Sustain your answer with examples.

  4. What do teachers help their students with?

  5. What can happen with the society where teachers are corrupt, betraying army, unfaithful bureaucracy, untrustworthy politicians etc?

  6. Why is a teacher an architect of a new generation?

  7. Why is this profession’s significance and greatness much higher than seen on the surface?

  8. How do teachers make a tremendous contribution to our society and hence why must they always be held high?

"The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people." ~ K. Patricia Cross