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| How and in what ways are these different from each other?? Teacher Trainer Instructor Facilitator Coach Mentor Thanks |
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Professor Guru to your list. Regarding guru, you may read: http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/as...e-teacher.html And regarding language training you may read http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ge...-training.html |
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| There's a jargon element here and some happen to be in vogue at a particular time. Before I left the UK, we were being encouraged to refer to students as customers. I agree with what Raymott says about some rigid methods being training in the link above. A mentor gives guidance/advice, especially to the inexperienced. Sports have coaches but the term is being used for teaching- I think it's supposed to sound positive and encouraging. Facilitator changes the roles and doesn't have the same power relationship that teacher/student has- it casts them as (near-) equals in the learning process instead of the transmission of knowledge from the learned to the unlearned, though the term never really took off in my experience- a few people used it but it never caught on in the UK. |
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| There's a jargon element here and some happen to be in vogue at a particular time. Before I left the UK, we were being encouraged to refer to students as customers. I agree with what Raymott says about some rigid methods being training in the link above. A mentor gives guidance/advice, especially to the inexperienced. Sports have coaches but the term is being used for teaching- I think it's supposed to sound positive and encouraging. Facilitator changes the roles and doesn't have the same power relationship that teacher/student has- it casts them as (near-) equals in the learning process instead of the transmission of knowledge from the learned to the unlearned, though the term never really took off in my experience- a few people used it but it never caught on in the UK. |
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| If I may please, I would like to change the original question a little bit. Or rather ask another question to teachers and academics at UsingEnglish about this subject: If a student called you by any of the names above, namely Teacher Trainer Instructor Facilitator Coach Mentor Professor Guru Master Doctor would you feel offended or upset? I am also talking about college level professors - maybe a professor could be offended to be called as a teacher? |
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| Some might, but generally we use names not positions; I'd rather they used my name than called me 'teacher', but some students find that hard to do because that would be rude in their culture. |
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In fact we don't have "college level professors" in Australia. If you're a professor, you work at a university. A university professor can be all those things, but in most cases, they'd rather be researching. Teaching is often an unpleasant chore for which they often have little natural talent. This applies to many academics (PhDs etc.). I believe this also applies to Britain. |
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I know often teaching is an unpleasant chore, specially to freshman or sophomore students. One of the things I asked was whether such professor could feel upset for being inadvertently called teacher by a first-year student. When I said "college level" I was using the AmE terminology (that is university), you have already told me the difference: http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/as...niversity.html I am sorry about the misunderstanding. |
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Consider Professor John Smith PhD. They would call him Professor Smith, Dr. Smith, Professor, Doctor, or John. This is usually sorted out in the first class, where he will say something like "You may call me Professor Smith, or Doctor Smith or John - as long as you do it politely - but not Mr. Smith. I worked a long time for that doctorate! <laughter>". So, no he generally wouldn't be offended. He'd be vaguely amused and puzzled, depending on his personality, because he may never have heard it before. However, if you called him "teacher" in a way that was obviously sarcastic - implying that he wasn't much of a teacher at all, then yes, he would quite rightly be offended. I've never seen this happen. PS: In fact, no one at all is called "teacher" that I can think of. A school teacher is either 'Sir', 'Miss", Mr Smith, Miss Smith, Mrs Smith. Perhaps in some progressive schools these days, it might be John or Mary. (Again, this BrE, AusE usage, which tends to be similar as far as education systems go). |
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