Discuss the role of the teacher in the teaching of values

Effective teaching of behavior change would require the teacher observing the following:
1. Discovering the current values and attitudes of his/her students before embarking on
changing them. This will include their feelings emotions and desire.
2. Creating an atmosphere and adults thrive in an open flexible ,respectful, warm caring
and cooperative environment .such an atmosphere encourages the learner to feel loved,
understood respected ,valued and safe
The learners want to be loved, regardless of whom they are what they have achieved etc. for the
teacher to demonstrate this love she needs to be warm caring, kind to each child. A healthy
atmosphere where children can grow positively and develop holistically has to be created. When
this happens, the child will accept and believe in him/herself.
A child learns best when his/her emotions and level of readiness are accepted and respected. The teacher has to listen to and give the individual space to express his/her feeling and ideas. Listen to the students openly and attempt to process with clarity the answers to his/her needs and situations:
3. Modeling the qualities or values which she wants to pass to the student’s question. these
values could be obedience maturity, faithfulness, trustworthiness, considerate, love, honesty. tolerance, empathy etc. she has to display these qualities in everyday interaction with the learners to be able to impart them.
4. Being sensitive to their feelings and preferences. This calls for the teacher knowing the
children under his/her care well so that he can appeal to their emotions through his/her
interaction with them in and out of class. This will need development of reflective technique where the teacher can mirror on the learner behavior without expressing a positive or negative judgment. This can be done by making use of phrases like.........you seem to prefer the use of...................you look you seem.........................you sound... you give the impression
5. Teaching communication interpersonal and group skills. This will lead to a healthy
interaction between an individual and others ,leading to the development of a realistic
positive self -concept and promotion of social behavior
6. Providing information and structuring learning experience which will lead the learners
in discovering and reflecting on their feelings and discussing possible changes. That is
the learners can only work towards change of behavior when they are conscious of their negative existing values the problems their negative behavior can cause other students and the plan how they can revise them and develop new ones.
7. Promoting personal integration and self concept. The teacher should set attainable but
challenging task or goals. Individual learners should be accepted encouraged and recognize. At the same time criticism should be constructive
8. Promoting self-control by being human and consistently matching of behaviors and
consequences
9. Encouraging positive social behavior. This is done by the learners being taught to reject
prejudices and learn to like others and see matters from others perspective.
This can be achieved through interactive learning already discussed in the previous chapter.
Positive social behavior can be enhanced by the teacher providing opportunities for the learners to interact with people who have desirable attitudes. This will promote learning of about ones attitudes and their effects on self and others.
10. Allowing time for comprehension and reflection: students need to be given time to grasp
an reflect on new information and experience that will initiate change. This is made
possible through
a) Discussing groups focusing on well structured and interesting topics.
b) Arranging for group decision-making a group can debate on an issue and make a group
discussion on it. This fosters acceptance and ownership
c) Stressing cooperation within groups
d) Using role-play, which allows experiments with different attitudes and free expression
of feelings.
11. Encouraging deliberate change in behavior by allowing students to discover a
current value or attitude analyze it by consideration its positive and negative effects to
themselves and others in school or society. The effects of undesirable behavior should
lead to the teacher encouraging them to change their behaviour.

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Titany answered the question on November 2, 2021 at 06:56