Teachers carries a great responsibility. Flanders (1965) studies the effect of teacher behavior on student behavior and achievement and found superiority in many ways for what he called "indirect" behavior of teachers.Indirect influence means that the teacher accepts students feelings, praise them, use their ideas and ask them questions. On the other hand direct influence refers to the teacher giving notes and lecturing, giving instructions and criticizing where necessary.
Students of indirect teachers make better achievement scores, produced higher level of critical thinking and become more curious about the world around them than students of direct teachers. Thus student outcome is a direct result of the personality and processes utilized by the teacher during the student's school life.
Hi Jill,
ReplyDeleteAs a teacher who believes in and uses indirect behaviour. I can agree with the article. I can testify about those characteristics mentioned about students. I believe as teachers we should try to be that type of teacher but we need to integrate some of the direct teacher attributes in our teaching also. Parents can tell us the way we behave in class because their child model our behaviour at home.We have to remember we are role models and we play an important part in our students' life. Let us do our part so that our students would be model citizens in this world.