Unit 301: Understanding roles, responsibilities and relationships in education and training
Assignment 301B: Reflective Account
Name: Alan Blackham
On reflection, promoting appropriate behaviour, equality and diversity, along with identifying the needs of the learner are integral roles within teaching.
It is important to promote appropriate behaviour and respect for others to achieve a safe learning environment, that is orderly, co-operative and purposeful. A good way to initiate this is by establishing ground rules and set boundaries at the start of the course. This can be a dual input exercise, with both the students and the tutor having input, whilst ensuring the tutor’s
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With this in mind all tutors should be mindful and uphold the basics set out in The Equality Act 2010, which ultimately protects the rights and equality of all individuals, prohibiting victimization.
Providing a rich and varied context is essential, tutors should utilize a range of different methods to engage all students interests and learning styles. Identifying and meeting the learners needs are important so that tutors can facilitate students learning and ensure that both the students and tutors meet the required goals. Each learner is unique and brings to the learning situation their own different learning style, knowledge set, past experiences and motivational levels. It is important for tutors to consider the level of knowledge and skill development attained by the learners prior to instruction through a variety of different types of assessment, in order to offer a high quality learning experience, delivered and resourced to suit the needs of the learner. Tutors can assess learner needs through numerous means, such as; informal and formal assessment strategies, pre-course interviews and learning style tests. This will allow tutors to tailor lessons and activities to support learners individual needs.
A further way to address more specific learner needs is through the use of Individual Learning Plans (ILPs). An ILP is a dynamic working document, owned and used by the learner and supported by the tutor. It is
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.
Tutors play a vital role in this process to promote independent learning and motivate students. This is done by encouraging students to by teaching them the skills to independent learning. Example giving students choices so they can reflect on their own interests
Fundamental to education is the engagement of the teacher and knowledge that even as teachers we must continue to learn. The role of any teacher is to harness the skills, interests and the ability of all students, regardless of diversity. As a new teacher, I am aware that to successfully motivate and reach students, I must continually reflect on my teaching and adapt strategies.
Tutors are an extension of the classroom teacher and the time and attention a tutor spends with each student increases the learner's ability to assimilate information more quickly, allowing them to be more successful and confident inside the classroom and out.
Individual Learning Plans (ILPs) are a very important part of both teaching and learning, as they allow the individual to set themselves realistic and achievable goals. (Loreman, Deppeler and Harvery, 2011) Using ILPs supports personalised assessment for learning in using evidence and dialogue to identify where individualised are in their learning, where they need to go and how best to get there.
Personal learning plans (abbreviated as PLPs) are established by students usually in partnership with their teachers, counselors, advisors, and parents as a way to support them achieve short- and long-term learning goals, most commonly at the middle school and high school levels. Personal learning plans are centered on the belief that students will be more inspired to learn, will achieve more in school, and will feel a stronger sense of ownership over their education if they decide what they want to learn, how they are going to learn it, and why they need to learn it to achieve their personal, educational, career, and life goals. The general goal of a personal learning plan is to bring greater consistency, emphasis, and purpose or determination
I have suggested the biggest challenge for tutoring is how to make it dynamic, flexible, and personalized in order to meet the expectations of a more diverse student population. Indeed, the challenge is to accommodate the requirement from the working-class students whose needs of tutoring are different from the traditional students, specifically when learners are at a distance and the instructor is not physically present (Beaudin B, 1999). Therefore, the support to working-class students, or the non-traditional students is a common and urgent issue that colleges or institutions should make huge efforts on it.
Tutors are often the unsung heroes of the educational world, playing an important role in helping students gain the knowledge and skills needed to reach their goals. While anyone can claim the title of tutor, there are certain traits that make exceptional tutors stand out from all the rest.
For example their role within the classroom can involve a number of things, firstly how their behaviour can affect others whether it is positive or negative and that they must recognise when they are in the wrong. They must also take responsibility for their actions and learning, for example if they are finding a task difficult they must recognise this and seek help. Conversely they will know how to
Tutors can assume an important part of a beginners training. The tutor can give help to one subject or all zones depending upon what a student needs. Tutors can help anybody from children simply beginning school up to the individuals who require help with school level courses. Employing a tutor can be one of the best things a parent can do to help a child prevail in
A successful tutor must be flexible enough to adjust techniques and teaching approaches to meet the needs of each individual student. Where students are concerned, especially those that have learning difficulties, their patience should have no limits as well.
The instructors from Forde’s Professional Tutoring divide their comprehensive summer learning tutoring program into three sections that are specially designed for optimal learning. The first summer session focuses on completing current curriculum requirements. This gives students who have gaps in their knowledge or who have struggled over the academic year the perfect opportunity to catch up and feel confident. The second learning session consists of reviewing the completed curriculum and the third and last session focuses on test preparation to ready students for success on the Specialized
Instructors, tutors, and students all need to find a common ground about what it means to be, or use, a tutor in a particular course of study.
To plan, organize and implement an appropriate instructional program in a learning environment that guides and encourages students to develop and fulfill their academic potential.
As suggested by Abdullah (2008), learners need to connect learning to their knowledge/experience base. To help them do so, our tutors will draw out participants' experience and knowledge which is relevant to the topic, then relate theories and concepts to the participants and recognize the value of experience in learning.