Describe what your role, responsibilities and boundaries would be as a teacher in terms of the teaching/training Cycle.
I train first aid and lifeguarding, under license from either St John Ambulance (SJA) or Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS) to various corporate clients and individuals in the UAE.
The teaching training cycle describes the five stages during the teaching process mentioned below. I have to be aware of my role, responsibilities and boundaries as a teacher within this teaching training cycle to facilitate effective learning
Identifying Needs
Candidates are sent on the training courses according to the needs of the client, therefore the direct training need analysis falls outside of my responsibility as teacher. However as a teacher I am responsible to ensure that the individual learners’ training needs are met during the course. Learners visiting our courses often have very different ethnical and religious backgrounds and diverse former learning experiences. As a teacher I am aware of these differences and need to apply them to the learning process. To ensure a basic ground participants or their employers are always informed of the minimum requirements such as level of language skills that are required. Whenever possible I or my office administrator will establish in prior conversations or emails which course is the most suitable for this particular learning group and for their organisational needs.
Planning and Designing
Most of our courses are governed by various awarding bodies who design the courses from lengths, syllabus, learning materials and standards. If I am teaching these courses I am not authorised to change these, and obliged to you standardised teaching materials. However as a teacher it is my role and responsibility to design and structure each session to suit the type of candidates and situations that arise in teaching situations in the UAE. To deal with limited English skills I design additional course material using...