Answer to Question #313969 in Management for Lerato

Question

Do learners have positive or negative attitude towards the teaching method adopted by their teachers ?

Answer 1

The teacher, through either positive or negative attitude in communication with students and in how he/she reflects this, directs the shape of their lives, has a positive or negative effect on the attitude shown toward themselves or the public in general, affecting development of the ability to communicate, research and be creative (Ataunal, 2003).

For a teacher, being able to interact with the student and display positive behavior such as asking questions, understanding their thoughts, showing interest and appreciation increases the students’ motivation and success. While working towards providing students at a certain development level information, experience and behavior on a certain topic, teachers become role models for students by way of their own behavior and attitude. Positive attitudes lead to success while negative attitudes lead to failure and as a result success can lead to positive ego attitudes while failure leads to negative ego attitudes

Awanbor (1996) reported that teacher trainees had a negative attitude towards teaching and those teacher trainees who had positive attitude towards teaching did so with strong reservation which range from the poor social image to the teaching.