Meeting Children's Individual Needs
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... BA (Hons) Primary Education Year 2 Semester 3 December 2002 Professional Studies Assignment PR2010 "Meeting Children's Individual Needs" Brown & Wragg (1993) identify the ten roles of the teacher as being, "director, facilitator, adviser, teacher, guide, critic, freedom giver, supporter, manager and examiner" (p.31-32). There are many other educational writers who suggest various other dimensions of teaching and the essential teaching skills within these dimensions. Kyriacou (1998) lists the essential teaching skills identified by Dunne & Wragg (1994) as being "ethos, direct instruction, management of materials, guided practice, structured conversation, monitoring, management of order, planning and preparation and written evaluation" (p.6). It is the teacher's task to utilize the dimensions stated above to facilitate the development and employment of these essential teaching skills. According to Kyriacou (1998) this is crucial in order to foster all pupils' learning (p.5). This essay is concerned with how the teacher utilises these diverse roles and skills with the purpose of













