A strategic teacher has 6 roles

Constructivist Behaviorist Cognitive Guide

A teacher must guide students in the right directions. Teachers should help them with their work. This quality of a teacher can be related to apprenticeships. In an apprenticeship, a student works closely with an expert to accomplish complicated tasks that are difficult to complete by ones self. Teachers are the decision makers in the classroom setting, thereby stating that they are in control of what a child learns, and how they learn it. If a child needs assistance for example, the teacher will take it upon themselves to make that decision of whether or not they use scaffolding or not. As long as children get to experience and learn things individually, then it shouldnt interfere if a teacher is a thinker or not. If a teacher is a thinker, it can come off as trying to persuade students into thinking what the teacher believes. This would be known as Apprenticeship.. Explain and clarify what experiments are going to be held, when certain things will occur and what a proper response should be Demonstrate and encourage the use of cognitive and meta cognitive strategies. Give clear instructions and retroactions.

Social Cognitive

Decision maker

Decide what experiments are appropriate to determine what responses the subjects will have. Or determine what responses I, as a teacher, would like to see.

Make decisions on what activities to plan according to students cognitive and meta cognitive strategies

Thinker

Notice if certain stimulusresponse experiments are too complicated or too intricate to be performed by students. Desirable results will not be obtained if the experiment does not even go as planned. Adapt to students and their differences. When the expected responses come after the stimuli, the teacher should use reinforcers and reinforcing language to show the students which responses are deemed okay

Think of the pertinence of possible activities, if students can relate to them and if they are right according to students knowledge.

Motivator

Piaget believed that students should be allowed to make their own discoveries individually. A teacher therefore can act as a motivator, and can encourage the child. Children must therefore be able to solve a situation on their own. Learners construct their own knowledge through various forms such as through the use of schemes, assimilation, and accommodation. Teachers role is therefore just to build on what the child has learned by themselves. They are there to mediate or monitor the childs learning, and not take control over it. Trainer is specifically related to Vygotskys theory. Learning revolves around social interaction, and in this case, a teacher acts as a trainer and guides the students onto the right path. Trainer can be associated with scaffolding in which a more competent individual helps learners successfully perform a task within ZPD. The Zone of Proximal Development is where a child gets to master a problem with the assistance of an expert. Once the child is trained, they can then perform these tasks on their own.

By taking into account prior knowledge, teacher will reinforce feelings of competency. Make students aware of how much they already know though methods like induction. Be the mediator between student and his knowledge. Support student in his learning personally. Reframe and restructure student when he's on the wrong track

Mediator

Potentially prompt students towards particular responses, or at least prompt them to have a response. Often students will not respond in order to not be wrong, show them that all you need is a response, and work out proper ones from that. Train the student to potentially understand stimulus-response experiments. If possible, make experiments that students can relate to. Or some that they can apply to other situations in life, whether they do so consciously or subconsciously.

Trainer

Present significant learning experiences. Bring student to transfer knowledge to outside the classroom. Train student to become self-regulated.