An educator is a person whom
delivered the knowledge possess by themselves to another person by playing role
of mentor, teacher or advisor. Delivering knowledge as an effective educator to
adults or young learners required some great skills and abilities.
First and foremost, the
educator must ensure that they are well versed the subjects or skills to be
taught. This is very important since an educator can only deliver the best if they
understands the knowledge to be delivered. Without a proper understanding, the
delivery of knowledge might get wrong or the student could not understand it
well too. As per Howards Hendricks quote
“The teacher has not taught until the student has learned”, the educator
themselves must be willing to learn new techniques, explore and experiment new
pedagogy for an effective education delivery. The educator must understand
that, ‘education is not preparation for life, education is life itself.’ (John
Dewey). The educator must not limit their learning process to enhance the
existing skill or knowledge only, instead an educator must be willing to learn
new skills and knowledge too, especially in a global term. The diverse
knowledge of globalized cultures and traditions, can portrait an educator as most
interesting diversified personality between learners. The exposure of
globalized issues can make the learners be more proactive and alerted not only whereabouts
of their surrounding but beyond that the world perhaps.
To deliver all these wide
range of information, a gadget can be a useful tool. These tools enable the
delivery of lesson’s data to be delivered in the most interesting ways by
including audio, video and even colorful slides. These tools enhancing the
learning process by stimulating the brain of learner to imagine or even view
the real-life images related to the lesson delivery’s data at another point of
view. An educator must ensure their learners are exposed to real life
characters and realia to receive the most realistic and spontaneous knowledge
ever. At this 21st century, there are new gadgets and technologies
been introduced almost every single day. The educator in order to become the
most effective ones, must be a technology ‘vampire’ hunting new information and
keep themselves updated regarding the newly introduced technologies. This
personality of updated version in technologies creates most positive
communication between learners especially young learners. Being a technology
geek is very vital to enhance and boost their lessons effectively at the same
time to portrait a great role model in trying new things without hesitation.
An effective educator must be
able to perform many different tasks to ensure smooth flow in preparing lesson
plan’s aids. The educator must be able to perform multitasking in creating the
most effective teaching aids without much hassle. Gail Goldwin once said, Good
Teaching is a ¼ preparation and ¾ theatre, yet I believe the effectiveness of
theatre delivery is depending on the attractiveness and involvement during the
preparation. An expensive and multicolored teaching aid does not ensure the
delivery of lesson is successful, while a simple yet understandable teaching
aid might create wonders and delivers the lesson’s data successfully. The
character of multitasking in an educator, allows space to be creative and
innovative, especially recycling the old items or even manipulate the previous
lesson aids into a new dimension. This type of acts will always attract learners
to pay attention since the showcasing of old items into a new dimension is
ultimately interesting thing with a wow factor.
An educator must be willing
to play multiple roles in their classroom to provide a flawless academic
session. An educator must be a great classroom manager by providing the most
conducive learning spaces for their learners. A classroom session with less or
none interruptions’ is very important to follow the steps of lesson plan. A
simple interruption such as chair moving or limited space with noise and bad
smells can make the learners attention been diverted while the teaching gone
wrong. Whereas the educator also must know how and when to control their
learners misbehaves especially among young learners. The educator also must be
an excellent administrator as if to manage all the paper works related to job
or even marking and providing grades to the learners. Since the grading and
marking is the tool determine the educator’s effort been paid off or not, it is
most vital to always manage them accordingly and keep all files up to date.
Last but not least, ensure all facilities among the classroom is in good as if
in working condition. When it comes to use a television, projector, fans or
even whiteboards, they must be in working condition. It is an effective educator’s
responsibility to ensure all the facilities among the classroom is in working
condition and can be apply for their lesson delivery sessions.
While all this is in good
working condition, usage of wrong methodology might overtake all the efforts to
gone wrong. There are quite numbers of methodology still a student-centered learning method always the best, in encouraging all learners to participate in
lesson. Abhijit Naskar, cognitive and behavioral neuroscientist once said,” The
Teacher Should Be Like The Conductor In The Orchestra, Not The Trainer In The
Circus,”. Conducting or planning a student-centered learning lesson,
spontaneously will create an opportunity to all student to engage themselves in
the learning process and make the knowledge delivery is successful.
Educator can be as effective
as they want by considering the above factors and make the learning as fun as
possible.
