THE TEACHER AS A STUDENTS’ OVERLOAD FACTOR

Abstract

The requirements posed to the teachers regarding their competence, professionalism and dedication, are bigger and bigger day by day, same as their responsibility. The teachers are especially responsible for the teaching process and for creating conditions where the students will know what they learn and the teachers what they teach. This means the teaching process should acquire interpersonal characteristics, thus avoiding the situation this process to be just a means for simple accumulation of facts.
The role of the teacher in the educational process is of a first-rate importance, above all because of the specific function the teacher has in this process.
In this respect, the issue as to whether and how much the students will be burdened in the educational process, in a great deal depends on the teacher’s work. In his/her work with the students, the teacher, in didactic and pedagogical sense, can considerably influence the students’ burden, either by increasing the tasks posed to the students thereby increasing the amount of work they should do and the time necessary for that, or vice versa – by reducing the tasks thereby reducing the students’ burden to a level below the optimal limit. So, the teacher is the one who may shorten or expand the material presented to the students and this way he/she can be or not be a factor causing students’ overload.