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The Application Of Pedagogical Principles

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1.1 Analyse the application of pedagogical principles in own area of specialism. Teaching a specialism of any matter requires the teacher themselves to be competent and confident with their own abilities first. To be a competent carpenter requires lots of experience, dedication and time – without dedication, you will not put in the time and in turn not gain the experience. Hence dedication is a fundamental element, which is expressed to all the construction students at Harlow College, in order for them to succeed. Dedication goes hand in hand with motivation, motivation is developed from enjoyment. Therefore making a positive rapport between student and teacher is a very important because ‘good teacher-student relationships are based on mutual respect. The student respects the teacher for their teaching skills, personal qualities, knowledge and professionalism’ (Petty, 2004) which puts emphasis on the teacher who is at the core of the motivation behind any prosperous student. Students’ dedication to college will reflect all the way through their course progression, it will increase their chances of succeeding. Moreover, help them to achieve the qualification in a timely manner. Setting dead-lines for assignments, homework or case studies on the whole will help the learner to achieve all the core units of a course in a timely manner. If however dead-lines are not set and clear, students may find that new work will be issued on top of old work thus creating an overloading

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