Chapter one and two of Kumar

Chapter one of Kumar talks about the roles of the teachers. The author said the teacher needs to be passive technicians, reflective practitioners, and trans-formative intellectuals. The authors stated that teacher as passive technicians are when the teachers are using content knowledge rather than teaching. The author stated that “viewing teachers as passive technicians is traditional and is still in vogue in many parts of the world" (pg 9). I agreed with this statement. I believe that many countries especially in Asia, view teachers as passive technicians. In Korea, many people view teacher as passive technicians. Many teachers are so used to pass on the knowledge rather than teaching, I feel like many students are used to learn by passive technicians. In the chapter, the author talked about reflective practitioners. The teachers who are reflective practitioners are more problem-solving teachers to try to help students to learn. The teachers as trans-formative intellectuals are when the teachers need to teach the content and also teach social problems. When I was reading the roles of the teacher, I had a question in my head. Which role of the teacher would be the best? If a student is used to learn by passive technicians, and suddenly the teachers role changed as reflective practitioner, would the student learn better? Then how come many people learned by passive technicians cannot keep up with the reflective practitioners or trans-formative intellectuals?
         Chapter two is about all different types of methods of teaching. Chapter two talked about there are no perfect way of methods that works for every teacher and student. Some of the methods were the same or similar method as the one we talked about in the class. Some of the methods were interesting. However, how do i know as teacher which method works the best for the classroom? There are so many different types of methods. I don’t think I would know which one would be right for the classroom. However, if I try every method, it will take too much long.