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Role of a teacher or a coach in a student's life

Any student in a learning institution requires a certain level of guidance to prosper and mature as a student; school life would be chaotic and out of touch with students if they were left unattended to. The essence of this is in the way of, the teacher or the coaches wittingly invests his time for the personal development of the student or athlete, these valuable insights and knowledge helps shape the performance, attitude and overall initiatives of a student or athlete. While interscholastic physical education programs are an integral part of a school’s overall educational program;  in as much as it's important to teach students to strive to win, It also holds true that for every triumph, there is always someone who loses in every contest (athletic or educational), and usually only one team takes the win (Shim, et.al, 16).

That being the case, winning cannot be the only yardstick to appraise athletic programs within any educational philosophy. Coaches and teachers alike are the linchpin of the educational system that takes place in athletics or in say educational symposiums. Placing too much importance on merely winning infers some form of discord in trying to impart valuable lessons about life to the learners, students ought to take booth a win or a loss as a step towards learning something, and most of all enjoy participating in such functions and hence teachers or coaches ought to make both losing and winning an educational experience for the participants.

Each school should have a service charter in the form of the overall mission or the educational goals the institution seeks to achieve, that is, each department or section in the institution should develop measurable objectives and expectations for each and every individual in the institution regarding the program. The program should answer questions such as how program being instigated contribute to the overall educational program, and if it does, how does an individual review its significance, effectiveness and overall contribution to the growth of the athlete (Shim, et.al, 101).

Teaching is a very tasking and complicated profession, philosophically; people imply that it’s a calling due to the enormous sacrifices that teachers/coaches put in to ensure students better themselves. But how do you define a good teacher or coach? A good teacher or coach can be referred to as a teacher/coach who assists the student to learn. She or He adds value to the knowledge acquisition process in an array of ways. Firstly, the coaches/teacher’s role goes way beyond merely information dissemination, the teacher should entail a range of pertinent roles to play in the education process. These roles are dependent on what notion of teaching one exhibits; in the education niche two models are utilized as strategies to dispense knowledge. One is that of student-focused education and the other teacher-focused education. Teacher-focused strategies are based on the teacher as a disseminator of information, with information transferred from the knowledgeable teacher to the learner. Student-focused approach, in contrast, attests that the centre of attention as being on changes in students’ education and on what learners undertake to attain this as opposed to what the teacher does. For instance, if students are to acquire knowledge that will result to preferred outcomes in a potentially effective way then the trainer’s ultimate duty is to get students to take part in the learning activities that are most likely to result in them realizing those results.

It is imperative to take note that what the student does engage in is in fact more essential in ascertaining what is knowledge is acquired than what the teacher does. In essence, the art of teaching is the communication to students with the goal to learn and motivation is absolutely the product of good teaching principles not its requirement (Saavedra, 18).

The other key role of a teacher/coach is to be a role model or mentor to the student, the influence teachers and coaches give to student’s can in turn model a student’s choice of a future career line and professional attitude. Students acquire knowledge through imitation and observation of the teachers they hold high opinion of. Meaning, students learn from what their instructors say but, from what they perform in their practice and the skills, knowledge and approaches they show. The best a teacher or a coach can do once they see a student who has potential and reveres to be like them, the idea is to engage in role modeling to help the students better themselves through transmission attitudes, noteworthy values and apposite patterns of thought; role modeling has a greater influence and impact of learning students from their coaches or teachers, this is because students best acquire knowledge through good example (Saavedra, 54).

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The role of the teacher/coach has scaled up to being a facilitator, this has been possible due to the changing approach of teaching which is more student-focused, meaning the student has more responsibility and liberty to make initiatives to acquire knowledge. With this model, the teacher’s role changes from a mere disseminator of information to a facilitator. The teacher encourages students to learn by themselves basing the problem issue as a focus for the learning, the approach espouses the increasing accessibility and use of learning other learning materials which further props the teacher as a learning facilitator (Saavedra, 48).

Works Cited

Shim, Sungok Serena, YoonJung Cho, and Jerrell Cassady. "Goal structures: The role of teachers’ achievement goals and theories of intelligence." The Journal of Experimental Education 81.1 (2013): 84-104. Print

Saavedra, Leahruth K. "Effective team building: The role of coaches." Strategies 26.4 (2013): 3-6. Print