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Educational Management

Notes (4) Role as Researcher : Teacher should have the ability deal the problems of classroom management.
He should have the knowledge and skill for using action research. Classroom management
problems can be solved with the help of action research project.
(5) Role as Manager : Teacher should know the functions, authorities, and responsibilities of a
manager. The main functions of a manager are planning, organizing, supervising, directing
coordinating and controlling the teaching process. Now a teacher has a very wide area of
responsibilities.
(6) Role as Leader : A teacher should have leadership quality. A teacher function as a leader of his
class. Academic leadership is the most important function of a teacher.
In the modern era, a teacher has enumerable responsibilities as our society becomes very complex.
Teacher has to play the several roles in classroom management. The most important qualities of
teacher are sincerity, honesty and involvement in teaching, He enjoys his classroom teaching. It
brings excellence in classroom management. The knowledge of teaching, training and instruction
can be effectively used by a teacher in managing classroom activities.

Functions of a Teacher
The duties and functions of teacher can be categorised as follows :
(1) Planning. (2) Educating,
(3) Organising, (4) Supervising,
(5) Guiding (6) Recording,
(7) Evaluating, (8) Maintaining good relations
(1) Planning : Before proceeding with the actual teaching work and class management, a teacher
should plan thoroughly the following items :
(i) He should plan the curriculum as a whole, the syllabus in the subjects, he teaches, and
divides the syllabus into monthly and weekly units or yearly plan.
(ii) He should plan the use of audio-visual and other teaching aids, and procure those in advance.
(iii) He should plan the time-table, and the actual class-work in accordance with the time-schedule.
(iv) He should plan all the co-curricular activities, to be organised during the session.
(2) Educating : Teaching is his first and foremost duty. It is his duty to have a thorough knowledge
of the subject, he teaches, study and practise the latest techniques of teaching, select the learning
materials, manage the daily routines and procedures of teaching, and motivate the students to
learn. He should give sufficient and adequate home-task and make regular correction of written
work. He has to direct co-curricular activities and look to the all-round development of pupils.
(3) Organising : A teacher has to organise the following items :
(i) He has to organise various curricular and cocurricular activities.
(ii) He has to organise the school plant look to decoration and up-keep of the school campus,
make seating arrangements, maintain the equipment, distribute the furniture and pay
attention to the sanitation of the surroundings.
(iii) He has to organise library work of the pupils.
(iv) Organisation of the instructional work is the most important duty. This includes organisation
of syllabus, classification of pupils, construction of time-table, and assignment of work.
(4) Supervision : A teacher has to supervise the work of the pupils. He should ensure regular
attendance and regular work, and detect irregularities. He has to check the practical work, the
written work and supervised study by the pupils. He has to maintain discipline and order in
tile school. He has to supervise games and other activities of the pupils. He may have to supervise
the work of the pupils in the hostel.

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