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• Role Teacher in Fostering Value Education In Children
• Role Of Teachers For Development Of Values
• How Teacher Inculcate Moral Values In Students

It has been remarked by a great thinker that if a teacher is devoid of values, it is better to take to shopkeeping.

Role Of Teachers In Value Education

Role, Responsibilities, And Duties of Teacher in Fostering Value Education In Children

The influence of the school environment is expected to enable students to obtain social competence and individual development.

• Such an expected influence largely depends upon the teacher’s positive role in creating and sustaining a conducive environment in the school.

A teacher should establish clear standards of behavior and encourage their students to behave

• Towards himself,
• Towards one another, And
• Towards the whole community in an orderly and considerate way.

The teacher should, therefore, develop a rational acceptance of these standards in his students and also the ability to discriminate right from wrong.

Traditionally teachers are regarded as the torchbearers of the race and the makers of history. Although their role in this respect has diminished, still it must be admitted that they exercise their considerable influence on children.

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Gandhiji has observed,

“The secret of teaching values is to inspire and kindle the quest among the students by means of one’s own example of character and mastery of knowledge. It is by embodying values within themselves that the teachers can really radiate values to their students”.

Mazumdar (1983) said,

• Values cannot be taught through formal and direct teaching.
• Values can be inculcated only when the institutions provide activity for it and experiences inside and outside the school that promote
  • Responsibility,
  • Cooperation,
  • Honesty,
  • Fair play, and
  • Self-control.
• Education for values has to be based on the ideas of the supremacy of reasoning over anything else and not only unintelligent conformity.

One of the challenges before a modern teacher is how to make value education effective and interesting to the modern youth?

The present-day youth with all its potential and goodwill to learn seem to concentrate on all other academic subjects except value education. This poses a challenge to all concerned with the all-around development of the students through education.

• There are occasions when children express wild impulses and passions, and often they are in revolt.
• There are occasions when children get vexed, become sulky, and go on strike.
• Children have their own daily battles of loyalties and friendship, and there are moments of desperate depression and of violent enthusiasm.

With patience and perseverance, the teacher can utilize all these occasions to show the truth and light and to awaken among the children the right sense and the right direction of true progress.

• The important aspect in the role of a teacher is that they should set good examples of conduct and behavior which students may imbibe in themselves.
• All occasions of daily life should be utilized by the teacher to bring his student nearer to the realization of the ideals.
• Teachers have to be professionally prepared and made to internalize their role in value inculcation.

Role Of Teachers For Development Of Values

Since every teacher is a valued educator, it is expected that she/ he:

1. Would be able to analyze his own biases and attitude towards students.
2. Would evolve a positive approach to authentic orientation related to different religions-related values.
3. Would develop a clear vision of his role in value orientation.
4. Would be able to devise a number of innovative ways for value education to be applied in the classroom.
5. Would be able to identify the potential of different subjects and situations in school for fostering universal human values and be sensitized about his own influences as role models.
6. Would be able to incorporate moral themes while teaching subjects.
7. Would be able to delineate stage-specific strategies.
8. Would be a good communicator.

Teachers are a role-model for the students. Their actions convey more than their words.

• The teacher makes a maximum impact on the personality of a student in the formative years.
• Students learn values from what the teachers are rather than from what they say.
• Students imbibe virtues and vices knowingly and unknowingly from these role models.

Teachers demonstrate the appropriate behavior of their students by their actions.

• Teachers must have a healthy attitude and should possess rich values.
• Teachers should act as a friend, philosopher, and guide.
• Teaching is all about attitude-positive/ negative towards their job of imparting quality education.

A teacher is not only a source of information but is also a mentor and guardian. For this teacher must respect the teaching profession, love her subjects and students, Students will seek inspiration from teachers who have high self-esteem.

A decade back or so the role of a teacher was limited to being a source of information. But today this place is shared by

• Books,
• Coaching classes,
• Multimedia technology etc.

So, the role of a teacher is marginalized.

In modern times we are experiencing transition, the role of a teacher has increased manifold.

• A teacher can maintain values and nurture them.
• A teacher has an immense potential of bringing about a sea change in society by demonstrating essential values of head and heart.

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How Can A Teacher Inculcate Moral Values In Students?

Teachers can impart values in students by giving them instructions through discussion, experimentation, and lectures and in the following mentioned ways:

1. Teachers should give importance to cooperative learning.
2. Teachers can maintain a case-study register to closely observe the students and note down the positive and negative traits of their personalities.
3. By organizing cultural and sports events values like team spirit, sharing, the spirit of cooperation, patience, courtesy, etc can be imparted.
4. A teacher must explain to the students the importance of meditation& yoga practices for realization or the attainment of oneness with God.
5. Every day a teacher must spend at least 5 minutes on moral lecturing.
6. “Thought for the Day” should be employed in assemblies. Moral thoughts trigger in them moral thinking.
7. Teachers should also tell the students to maintain a spiritual diary in which they will surrender themselves to God and take an oath to follow the path shown by him.
8. Impart knowledge of foreign languages to make them know different cultures.
9. Organize games, excursions, visits to places of historical importance. Club activities like nature club, literary club, wildlife prevention club, social service camps, blood donation, etc.
10. Teachers must tell the students to go to the libraries- the treasure house of knowledge. Classics available in the library are morally rich and inspiring.
11. Suicidal tendencies in students should be curbed. They must be prepared by the teacher to face the challenges of a life fearlessly and with courage.
12. Skits, role plays propagating moral values can be performed by students under the guidance of the teacher.

The most important agent for building the character of the student is a teacher.

Swami Vivekananda says that

Character is nothing but a bundle of habits formed through repeated acts. It comes through “Samskaras” or past impressions. Character building can change the nation. A strong foundation is required for a strong building, strong character is required for nation-building.

Thus, the Teachers Society plays an important role in the nation-building by character building of the students.

• The best and the greatest profession in the world is that of a teacher because the future of a nation depends upon the type of teachers who shape the future generations.
• Every teacher plays the most important role in shaping the students as enlightened citizens.

Swami Vivekananda’s words should not be forgotten by the teachers- “Arise, Awake and Stop not till the goal is achieved”.

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