Authority

19.92-GURUH TALABASI: O’rozova Zamira

THE IMPORTANCE OF USING AUTHENTIC MATERIALS DURING THE LESSON

Authority

• Definition:
• Authority in teaching, as in anything else, is legitimate influence over others
• Different from “power”
• “Authority does not connote coercion.”
• “Authority (is) reciprocal, and thus dependent upon others for its fulfillment”

Authority

• Authority requires a climate for serious learning.
• Born of teachers’ learning, stature, and behavior
• Arises from the seriousness of purpose they convey to their students
• Must be linked to students’ own well-being

Authority

• Authority means mastery of the subject
• Substantial knowledge of the subjects they teach is the foundation of their stature.
• Can modify their approaches
• Can help those behind them find their own way on the path

Authority

• Authority is a matter of carriage and conduct as well as knowledge.
• Springs as much from bearing as from study and reflection
• More important: attributes of personal character and citizenship
• Dignity
• Civility
• Compassion
• fairness

Authority

• Authority is acquired and accumulated.
• Calls for unremitting effort
• From practice and experience
• Teachers must lose no chance to possess and deserve authority

Authority

• Authority encourages aspiration in students.
• Must have direction
• Must be linked to purpose
• Must be directed to students’ understanding of the world
• Must be directed to the deepening of their moral lives
• Must create in students a desire to surpass themselves

Authority

• Authority requires some formal distance between teachers and students.
• Authority grows from the implicit acknowledgement of their greater knowledge of a subject and of the world
• Popularity is not authority

Authority

• Authority emerges from an acknowledged difference in the status of teacher and student.
• Distance, detachment, and impartiality
• Must also acknowledge ignorance