Dear.Muhammad Zahid Latif

The role of the teacher is great and vital in the educational process. He must move away from the traditional role of the faculty. His role is not to guide the students when needed without great intervention. Therefore, his main role is to plan to guide students and help them to rediscover the facts of science.

As an illustrative example, let us assume that a teacher will study in primary science the factors that the plant needs to grow. The traditional method of science will tell them about the plant's need for light, water, good soil and air. The subject ends in less than ten minutes, but it will not have a real effect on student information or behavior, While in effective teaching the teacher will ask the students the following question about what the plant needs, what factors are necessary for germination or so, and leave the answer for students to look for and suggest experimentation and leave the opportunity for students to design the experiment in a group or individual dialogue in the classroom Students are encouraged to do so. At the end of the course, the students have agreed on the method of implementation of the experiment and distributed the roles among them in the experiment and follow-up and writing the report, which will eventually derive knowledge of the needs of the plant, and to discover the scientific facts related to the subject, :

1. Train students in the scientific way of thinking.

2. Train students in dialogue and discussion.

3. Students acquire practical skills related to the experience.

4. Students learn how to write scientific reports.

5. Be a communication skill, and explain the scientific idea to others in a convincing way.

The role of the teacher is to gradually educate the students' ability to learn independently.

At the same time, the teacher must take into account the individual characteristics of the students.

Dear Latif,

I must congratulate you for the sound research question you have posed. Of course, a teacher or facilitator have significant roles to play in enhancing the learning processes of his/her students. The first thing s/he must do is to create the enabling environment for smooth learning to take place. A key factor is the makeup of the instructor. If s/he is affable, approachable, considerate, firm, disciplined, confident, punctual and all the allied qualities that clearly identifies a good instructor, it will make it easier for students to assimilate the content s/he teaches them. An exemplary teacher is worth mimicking by students who would want to tread their footsteps.

The facilitator must effective classroom management skills. All the resources such as reference materials such as Textbooks and other e-resources are made available for students. Also, he must effectively organize the students in such a way that it would ease movement and congestion that psychologically affects the learning process negatively.

Moreover, assigning individual projects as per the academic abilities of each learner, working at his or her own pace. Well monitored and coordinated group projects with students of varying academic abilities, potentials, and preferences.

More importantly, the motivation of students especially weak students who grabble with assimilating the content taught and with learning difficulties can immensely facilitate learning.

Finally, remedial lessons for the weak students carefully monitored, assessed and discussed with students while being patient but firm, would re-engineer the somehow weak learning abilities of these students.

A teacher teaches and transfers knowledge to students by appreciating their curiosity. Knowledge differentiates the peoples from ignorants and leads to success. So a teacher helps students to be successful and useful in their lives.

A good teacher adopt an approach which is more learning centric rather than teaching centric. He or she help students by conducting flip classes also. He prepares him to become a good human being.

Dear Muhammad,

You ask for what is the role of a teacher in effective learning. Your question may be answered through a short or long answer. What follows is a short answer.

As I see it, the role of a teacher in effective learning is to be more a mentor and organizer of learning experiences and situations than a simple transmitter of ready made and established truths. When the former is the case, students tend, say, to understand, reconstruct and reinvent everything they learn, or, as Vladimir says, to learn independently. When the latter is the case, students tend to memorize rather than understand what they learn, which reminds us of indoctrination.

For a teacher to give rise to effective leaning, s/he has to master what s/he teaches. When this is not the case, we have no teacher at all. Actually, how can we teach what we do not master or know well? There is accumulated evidence that shows that teachers who master what they teach are seen by their students as authoritative, not authoritarian, figures. Authoritative teachers are demanding in intellectual terms but caring and warm in affective terms. As such, they are respected, say, as epistemic authorities, and seen as inspiring models. Authoritarian teachers may be demanding in intellectual terms, but they are non-caring and cold in affective terms. As such, they are "respected" as figures to be obeyed not as inspiring models to be followed.. So, it comes as no surprise to know that authoritative teachers tend to give rise to creative and innovative students, students who are intellectually curious about the unknown and, hence, intrinsically motivated.  In contradistinction, authoritarian teachers tend to give rise to conformist and extrinsically-motivated students.

In addition to mastering their area/areas of expertise and teaching, teachers should take into account students' psychological characteristics, namely to be well versed in the details of the individual's psychological development. When this is not the case teachers risk teaching to their students material that is much above or below their cognitive abilities to understand. When the former is the case, students tend at their best to memorize what was taught because, in Piagetian terms, no assimilation took place and, hence, no significant teaching/learning occurred. To wit, consider the case of a teacher trying to teach the proportionality concept to a 7-year-old child. As this concept is much above a 7-year-old child's cognitive competencies, such a trying may be a pure waste of time. When the latter is the case (e.g., to teach the number conservation concept to an adolescent), there is also no significant teaching/learning because the student knows the point in advance. Again, no assimilation occurs.

In a philosophical sense, we might say that the role of a teacher in effective learning  is to set the stage for students' desire to pursuit the true, the good, and the beautiful. Note that the true, the good and the beautiful are universal categories, regardless of  how they are seen at different places and times.

I hope I have got your question and that this helps.

Best regards, Orlando

Dear.Muhammad Zahid Latif

The role of the teacher is great and vital in the educational process. He must move away from the traditional role of the faculty. His role is not to guide the students when needed without great intervention. Therefore, his main role is to plan to guide students and help them to rediscover the facts of science.

As an illustrative example, let us assume that a teacher will study in primary science the factors that the plant needs to grow. The traditional method of science will tell them about the plant's need for light, water, good soil and air. The subject ends in less than ten minutes, but it will not have a real effect on student information or behavior, While in effective teaching the teacher will ask the students the following question about what the plant needs, what factors are necessary for germination or so, and leave the answer for students to look for and suggest experimentation and leave the opportunity for students to design the experiment in a group or individual dialogue in the classroom Students are encouraged to do so. At the end of the course, the students have agreed on the method of implementation of the experiment and distributed the roles among them in the experiment and follow-up and writing the report, which will eventually derive knowledge of the needs of the plant, and to discover the scientific facts related to the subject, :

1. Train students in the scientific way of thinking.

2. Train students in dialogue and discussion.

3. Students acquire practical skills related to the experience.

4. Students learn how to write scientific reports.

5. Be a communication skill, and explain the scientific idea to others in a convincing way.

The most important part in any effective teaching process is the teacher himself, in the way he transfers his knowledge, master the class and give students moral values beside the course he is delivering.

I believe the role of teacher is vital and it must be considered as the major pillar in the learning process. More precisely it is the life line and most important element of the learning activities. I feel the teacher is just like a ladder for guiding, helping and assisting the learners to achieve and reach the top level