Module One Assignment.
In this assignment I will examine the traditional roles and responsibilities of the teacher as well as reflecting on my own practice and evaluating how the roles and responsibilities have changed from teaching to students to facilitating learning with them. I will also look at the different types of assessment that I use and the adaptions that I have made to ensure that it is inclusive and adapts to the needs of all of the learners.
The traditional role of the teacher was that of a gatekeeper of information where only the teacher had access to the material that the learners needed. This was vital when the classroom was the central point from where the information was broadcast …show more content…
These roles and responsibilities are vital to ensure that both governmental and organizational aims and objectives are met to an agreed standard. Roles can be defined as activities or actions required from a person or group and responsibilities are the obligations required to complete these activities to a successful conclusion. Teachers today are obliged to adapt and adopt new practices to involve all learners and that their most important task is to make themselves familiar with their learners as individuals in order to understand their wide range of needs, learning styles, social and cultural background, interests and abilities. The teaching profession is subject to a great deal of legislation and there are many targets that must be met in order for an establishment to be considered a success. It is the responsibility of the individual teacher to ensure that they follow the job role laid out by the learning establishment that they work for as well as fulfilling the expectations of the learners that they are working with. The LLUK document ‘Defining teacher roles and responsibilities in the further education sector in England’ (2008) lays out the different roles and responsibilities of a teacher in further education very clearly and was produced specifically to ensure clearer standards for trainee teachers to demonstrate in relation to the roles of teachers, trainers, …show more content…
The summative assessment for the course, set by the awarding body, is a series of written assignments, a presentation and a work placement log book which all require research and a lot of writing. With this in mind I try to use as many different activities as possible to cover all learning styles and promote inclusion as the formative assessment throughout each session. Formative assessment provides feedback and encouragement and allows the learners and the facilitator to review how things are going. Kolb (1984) created the ‘Experiential learning cycle’ and Tummons (2005, pp. 30) explains