What is a teacher - the role of the teacher's positioning

While being a professional teacher has been more than ten years, but every time I read the word "teacher", I can't help but wake up and sit down, such as thorns in the back, do not dare to have a little slack. More than ten years, but I feel more and more the depth of this word, and even feel sacred!

Continuously ask yourself, what is a teacher? Someone said: teachers are students "political guide, business mentor, life on the elders."　The purpose of our teaching is to educate people, and is to cultivate a new generation, so the teacher is not a simple transfer of knowledge of the "machine", but a spiritual food containing the "pilot ship". But is a teacher only a "pilot ship" carrying spiritual food? I personally believe that the role of the teacher is multi-faceted.

The teacher is the enjoyer and pioneer of educational achievements. Traditionally, people's requirements for teachers are silkworms, candles, gardeners, the value of teachers' lives is reflected in the students, teachers only pay no access. But teachers are human beings, not God, the teacher's knowledge and students' knowledge is not a bucket of water and a cup of water relationship, the teacher's knowledge should be a flowing stream, is a gush of sweet spring. Teachers must constantly update their knowledge, enrich their knowledge, broaden their horizons, increase their memory, and *** enjoy the fruits of modern spiritual and material civilization in order to adapt to the requirements of educational reform and the needs of their own spiritual life. This requires teachers to learn psychology and pedagogy, master the laws and characteristics of students' physical and mental development, and be the health care doctor of students' mental health. Knowledge of nutrition and hygiene, as well as knowledge of the prevention and treatment of common diseases of students, to give comprehensive care and attention in the life of students, to promote the healthy development of students physically and mentally - so teachers are the enjoyment of the fruits of education.

At the same time, each school has its own characteristics, in the process of running the school will produce their own problems, each teacher is faced with different classes, different students and different teaching content, in the process of teaching will produce different problems, so teachers are the main body of the study of school education, teaching problems. Teachers in the practice of education to obtain a large number of first-hand valuable information and experience, from the information analyzed, in the experience of reflection ------ So, teachers may become the creator and validator of educational theory.

Teachers are the navigators of the ship of students' life. The reality of the society is a mixture of good and bad, young students is the worldview, outlook on life and values of the formation of the period, if not properly guided, may lose their way. Teachers are engineers who shape the soul of mankind, should have a very strong sense of quality, to really cultivate students' noble sentiments, shaping the students' beautiful heart. Teachers should have a high sense of responsibility for the healthy development of students' physical and mental health At present, there are many only children, parents, elders spoiled more, resulting in most of the children's poor labor concepts, fear of dirt, fear of tiredness, love to spend spare change, more than food, more than wear, poor self-care ability to live. This requires teachers to help them overcome their weaknesses in school activities and develop good behavioral habits with the cooperation of parents. In the Internet era, teachers have to lead students onto the information superhighway to enjoy the "scenery" of the network world, but the lack of guidance may lead to disaster. But this requires a multi-faceted, long-term strict requirements, strict training and strict management, from shallow to deep, from easy to difficult step by step, only in this way, can receive a good educational effect.

The teacher is a messenger to spread love. Someone said, "If a teacher combines love of education and love of students, he is a perfect teacher." Love is the key to open the heart, but loving students is not an easy task, and it is even more difficult to make students realize the teacher's love for them. Teachers should give it selflessly to all students. A teacher can only inspire a high sense of responsibility to do this work well if he or she is full of persistent love for his or her students, and can work hard and steadfastly to care for their growth, to teach and educate, to respect the students' personality, and to guide them to achieve success: only if the students practically feel that the teacher is sincerely loving, caring, and helping them can they have a welcoming tendency to you, to Like to approach you, and heartily accept your education and guidance. On the contrary, if they do not feel that you have love for students, they will emotionally adopt a negative attitude of indifference, suspicion, antipathy and even resistance to you, in which case, no matter how hard you talk, they will not accept. Therefore, with love, is an extremely important premise for teachers to achieve educational results, the deeper the love of students, the better the educational effect.

The teacher is a friend of the student's mind. In traditional education, the teacher is the organizer, the leader, the transmitter, the teacher and the student are not equal, the knowledge is transmitted to the students by the teacher one-way. In modern teaching and research-based learning, teachers and students are interactive, and in academics, the teacher's advantage is limited, or even no advantage at all, the teacher's role should be the organizer, manager, participant, and collaborator of students' learning activities. If you want to educate students well, teachers should be the students' intimate friends. Teachers should put down their shelves, go deep into the students, participate in student activities and students to communicate more, to understand the students' family situation and psychological characteristics, and do a good job of home visits. According to each student's different character traits and family situation to talk and education. Fully believe in the students, respect the students, the students really as the main body of learning. Only when teachers treat students as friends, teachers can consciously create a democratic, relaxed, open, free and inclusive creative environment, in order to make the education of students can receive good results.

The teacher is the model of student behavior. Teachers take on the important task of teaching and educating people, only people with high moral character and profound knowledge can serve as teachers, the so-called "learning as a teacher, the body is a model", "moral education". Teachers are not only the transmitters of knowledge, but also the educators of ideas and moral demonstrators. Confucius, the great educator of the Spring and Autumn Period in China, said: "If you are upright, you will obey without being ordered; if you are not upright, you will not obey even though you are ordered". China's Han Dynasty philosopher Yang Xiong said: "Teacher, the model of man." Teachers should not only have the prestige of being a human being, the power of personality, so that students admire, but also the best state of mind, state of mind and behavior, positively influence and educate students, so that they grow up healthily. As the Austrian philosopher of education Martin Buell said: "Teachers are the best teachers. As the Austrian educational philosopher Martin Buber said: "The teacher can only be his whole person, with all his spontaneity is enough to the whole person of the students to play a real impact." Teachers should perfectly combine words and teaching by example, modeling behavior; love students, care for students, and establish equal teacher-student relationships; dignified instrument, elegant demeanor, with their own words and deeds and charisma to influence students. Teachers' personality power comes from the perfect unity of teaching level and moral sentiments, in knowledge, language, behavior to become a role model for students to learn. What the students are asked to do, they must first do. Should be consistent in word and deed, the same as the table, whether in the school, in the students or outside the school, should be strictly required of themselves, at any time. In any case can not do things detrimental to the image of the people's teachers.

Shi Dinghai: The 21st Century: Reconstructing the Ideal Role of Teachers