CURRENT PERSPECTIVES ON THE MANAGERIAL ROLES OF THE TEACHER
CURRENT PERSPECTIVES ON THE MANAGERIAL ROLES OF THE TEACHER

Summary/Abstract: This article is a synthesis of the current theoretical landmarks in the international and national literature regarding the managerial roles of the teacher, more precisely the way in which the management of the class of students is carried out. This area is of particular interest to pedagophical research and refers to the wide variety of skills and techniques that teachers use to keep students organized, focused, task-minded and productive during an hour so that educational goals can be achieved. When classroom management strategies are effectively executed, teachers minimize behaviors that prevent learning both individually, for each individual student, and for the group, as a distinct psychosocial entity, while maximizing behaviors that facilitate or improve learning. In general, effective teachers demonstrate great class management skills, while the hallmark of the inexperienced or less effective teacher is a messy class, where students do not work effectively or pay attention to tasks. In the first section of the article we will define the concept of management and argue its usefulness in the sciences of education. Later we will analyze the class of students from a systemic perspective and we will review the most important managerial roles of the teacher. Finally, we will analyze the current paradigms aimed at optimizing the teacher-student relationship in pedagogical practice.

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