Multiple Roles of a Teacher

From Fixing The Schools a Sketchbook from Kauffman Foundation.

Teachers need to play multiple roles since they have a mix of students coming from very different backgrounds. Students have:

• Different levels of knowledge
• Different learning styles
• Different levels and different types of intelligence (see multiple intelligences by Howard Gardner)
• Come from different family backgrounds, resulting in different levels of involvement by parents

To handle a mix of students, teachers need to:

• Knows the subject matter well and in depth
• Have the ability to answer why questions
• Need to use multiple techniques to deal with learning styles and learning approaches

This picture is a great depiction of how a teacher needs to play multiple roles.