What is the role of the teacher and what steps will you take to ensure you fulfill this role? The role of the teacher is to instruct his students with valuable knowledge and worthy lessons that would produce a favorable change in the lives of the students. For teaching to be effective and for change in students' lives to continue throughout life, the teacher must instill discipline and "discipline students." Since the law of apperception dictates that all learning depends on previously acquired skills, if a teacher succeeds in instilling discipline in his students, they will then be prepared for the next set of lessons that life has in store for them. Thus, the teacher will have fulfilled his role. In the context of Christian education, the teacher fulfills his role by using lessons from the Bible and communicating them through lectures, seminars or discussions. However, in order to be an effective teacher, I must expand on these lessons by providing real-life examples and hypothetical illustrations so that the student finds relevance in the lessons being taught. I must provide good role models for the student to emulate and, in fact, I must also ensure that I am a good role model myself by knowing and taking to heart every lesson I teach. In other words, the instruction must be thorough. To ensure that I fulfill my role as a teacher, I must give students the opportunity to respond to the lesson. According to Richards and Bredfeldt, when a student discovers a connection between himself and the lesson, "the path to a personal response is opened." By making lessons individually applied, decentralized and student-centered, but teacher-oriented...... middle of paper ......em to examine several elements that affect their student's motivation and se ask why and how it affects them in the first place. After that, I would tell him to develop a lesson plan using structural factors such as patterns and sequences, with an eye toward individual application and the group dynamics of the class. In doing so, the teacher can develop in their students a sense of shared motivation guided by these structural factors, so that each interrelated lesson is remembered. These lesson plans should also consider effective ways to instill discipline in students. The teacher must allow students' response in order to be able to understand the students' perception of reality, value systems and will, in order to understand how to further motivate their students. By understanding his students' motivations, he can bring change to their lives.