Level 3 Award IN Education and Training - Mark Kendrick
Unit 1 Understanding Roles Responsibilities and Relationships in Education and Training
Question 1
1.1 Main Role and responsibilities as a teacher/trainer in education and training
The main role of a teacher/trainer should be to teach in a way which engages learners and actively engage learning during every lesson irrespective of the environment. In my position as IT manager at Barnsley College there are roles and responsibilities that are set to facilitate personal and organisational goals the same can be said for teaching and learning. As a teacher/trainer I will need to be able to adapt my style of teaching by being a friend, counsellor, mentor to ensure that my learners are
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As a teacher I am responsible for the evaluation of course work and all aspect of the learning process to gauge whether improvements can be made. Throughout the process I must make sure that the course is delivered with quality and professionalism and continually assess my own teaching style and course delivery. As a teacher I will need to evaluate the course and delivery throughout the course duration to enable continuous improvement of my teaching and the impact that it is having on my learner. Question 2
How my role will involve working with other professionals and what the boundaries are between the teaching role and other professional roles
3.1 How the teaching role involves working with other professionals
When teaching the individual needs of the student may need to be passed on to another professional to facilitate learning if so this should be done in a professional manner and must treat the student with respect. It is important that the correct professional to deal with the individual learner needs is selected and understand the job role and how they can support me in the classroom.
Examples of working with other professionals may include
Student support worker
Administrative staff to deal with paperwork and hand outs
Making sure the room is tidy open and free of hazards – caretaker
Learning support assistant to help with
Brief for Assignment 1: unit 008 (level 4): Roles, responsibilities and relationships in lifelong learning
Roles, responsibilities and boundaries are qualities which the teacher/trainer incorporates into the teaching/training cycle; the cycle consists of identifying needs, planning and designing, delivery, assessment, and evaluation.
Describe, use and evaluate two different assessment activities used to check the learning of either individuals or a group of learners. Analyse the purpose of assessment and produce a written justification of your chosen assessment method. Use an extract from your teaching practice portfolio and reflect on how your feedback has informed your learners progress and achievement and how feedback from others has informed your own professional practice.
curriculum. The teacher will achieve this by providing learning tasks, and outcomes tailored to meet the needs of students. The teachers are the ones who would provide quality instructions to meet the varying needs of the students. Ongoing assessment is crucial as it points out the weaknesses and strengths of the students and it informs them as to where they are at and where they need to be. This assessment also guides the teacher’s planning and choice of effective strategies to ensure that at the end of the lesson all and if not all the majority of the students have learned the lesson’s content and
To be able to deliver effective and inclusive teaching sessions, where all individual characteristics are included. The place to start is with the teaching training cycle as it gives a basic framework that is flexible and adaptable. Identifying needs and planning, designing with planning, facilitating, assessing and evaluating.
As a teacher or trainer, there are a variety of roles and responsibilities that are important to consider. The main role of a teacher is to create a relaxed, comfortable learning environment for students to meet their learning needs. In many cases, the teacher’s role also involves delivery of
Day to day assessment is a crucial phase of effective teaching, it comprises of the teacher and the teaching assistant in the class focusing on how learning is progressing in that particular lesson, defining where improvements can be made and recognising the next step for the child, my role is working in partnership alongside the teacher who will help, support and work collaboratively with me as this will result in a valuable exchange of ideas and joint problem solving to enhance the future learning of the children we work with.
I should know how to inspire my learners and support learner’s needs. It is my duty to handle classroom, prepare lessons, prepare teaching materials, assess learners, identify needs, evaluate them and their delivery, maintain learners record of progress and facilitate learning. I should be able to undertake effective teaching and strategies to allow learners to make progress. The area they are working and assessing or evaluating will identify if the aims and learning outcomes have been understand and achieved.
Many people think the role of a teacher is just to teach students new skills; however the role goes much further than this, it can include assessor, verifier, advisor, record keeper, course designer, working with employers and personal tutor.
Being a teacher is not an easy task as many people could think. To be a teacher does not only imply to know the subject to be taught, it also includes being willing to constantly improve oneself integrally, as much as updating the resources and materials one uses in teaching. Reflecting and analyzing over and over again the best way to teach to learn and how to make students to extend what has been learned. The many hours spend in the classroom will never be enough to plan lessons, prepare materials, review pupils tasks and exams, as well, all the administrative requirements one has to cover for whatever institution we work. Besides all this a good teacher, a professional one, will have to find the time to keep preparing to improve
As a teacher, I have to be a proficient in the familiarity of my teaching areas, and be expert enough to be able to explain and teach them. As a former student, I recognise that I should training the techniques of teaching in order to advance my skills, however, if I get diverse and a lot of experience, it does not really matter because there are continuously new techniques developments, new ideas and new technologies out there for me to use and pick up to improve my future teaching. To guarantee I can find alternate pedagogies, I have to stay to involve in engaging skills and professional learning.
The responsibilities and boundaries of teachers are centred within the following themes; Initial assessment, planning and preparing lessons, delivering and managing learning, supporting learning, and assessment.
My main role as a teacher or trainer is to identify learners’ needs, Planning learning, facilitating learning, this can be done through interview, communicating with others and assessing learner progress.
I believe the best teachers continually seek to improve their teaching skills, preparation, and materials. After every class, I try to evaluate my performance by reflecting upon how well I presented materials to students, and how the students responded to my explanations and questions. Then I make notes for future reference. This self-evaluation helps me improve my teaching skills, teaching preparation, and teaching materials such as lecture notes and lesson plans. My ability to ask questions and provide an in-class activities has been improving through evaluations. The evaluation from students and myself is an important motivation to become a better