How Teachers can Empower Students

A teacher's role in the classroom is to help students succeed in their life. Empowering students is not the same as abdicating control of your students. A question may arise in your mind "Do students want to take over the classroom?" In higher form of education" empowered learners" has a more generic meaning. As a concept, empowerment was first used to describe a kind of relationship between managers and employees. It was defined as "the process of creating intrinsic task motivation by providing an environment and tasks which increase one's sense of self-efficacy and energy."

A recent survey says that the relationship of teacher empowerment to other school can rectify objectives of interest such as classroom practice and student academic performance are mixed. Assuming that a teacher's participation in school decision making can enhance teachers' commitment and achievement of a student, we speculate a positive relationship between empowerment and student performance through the linkages of school organization for instruction and pedagogical quality. Teachers and students have a lot to learn from each other.

Some unique ways to empower students are as follows:

• Students should be given a platform to voice their decision and thoughts. A public forum like Google Doc, Twitter hash tag, Edmodo site, blog etc improves ones teaching. It also explains students the emphasizing that learning is about partnership and working together.

• Teachers should work with students simultaneously.

• It can be incredibly empowering to encourage students bring their own devices and open up a new world of opportunities. It ensures that learning can happen anytime, anywhere.

• Students must be involved in real issues as they often complain that the subjects that are taught in class are not applicable in the real world.

Ultimately empowering students is about realizing how students and teachers are dependent on each other and they have a lot to learn from each other. As the saying goes "who dares to teach must never cease to learn", empowering students help us to do just that.

Students need teachers who believe in them and empower them to discover and follow their dreams. They need teachers who can see beyond grades and unlock the potential of the whole child. They also need teachers who care about them as individuals and inspire them to grow. Not surprisingly, the best teachers are those who nurture and educate the whole child.

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