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%TEACHERS' CONTEXTUAL PRIORITY FOCI 800719
The HELPFUL teacher's priority foci for attention
depend upon the context of the teacher's work. Students'
stages of cognitive and emotional development play a
central role in defining the context in which the teacher
works. In some instances becoming informed of those
stages may be priority foci for attention---especially if
the teacher is uninformed about such matters. The
students' career goals, aspirations, desires, fears,
inhibitions, etc. also formulate the context and may be
priority foci of attention if the teacher is not yet aware
of such basic information. Since it is the student who is
going to do the learning, it is the student who plays a
central role in the helpful teacher's considerations. Lack
of motivation, lack of student readiness, and presence of
inhibitions can make the efforts of a teacher futile.
They must be dealt with first, else attention focused upon
skills and content may be for naught.
The HELPFUL teacher relates skills and knowledge to
the students as persons. Only when so related are the
students likely to acquire the skills and knowledge as
whole persons. If the students are treated as learning
machines they are likely to act like learned machines at a
later date, and not take proper consideration of non-
mechanical aspects of persons. Thus the helpful teacher
has as a central foci of attention the proper relationship
between students and course context, and the students'
perceptions of that proper relationship. The teacher
plays a central role in creating the context in which
students learn, and to do a creative job at this task the
teacher must give careful attention to the context with
which she or he begins the creative task. Inattention to
beginning points can lead to getting lost. The first
order of business is to know where one is beginning.
The students' social context plays a central role in
the students' learning. So also does the teacher's social
context and patterns of social and a-social behavior.
Social interactions and the absence of social settings
make a great difference in creating a favorable or
unfavorable context for students' learning.
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