Assignment 1: Level 4
Review your role, responsibilities and boundaries as a Teacher in Terms of the Teaching/Training Cycle
“Teaching and learning should be a structured process, teaching will follow a cycle and the teacher makes use of this to ensure achievement”. (Wilson, 2009, page 15).
The Role
My main role as a teacher is to facilitate communication in such a way that all students are encouraged to enter into a wider debate surrounding the selected topic. To ensure sessions’ aims and objectives are meaningful and applicable to students, the teaching role incorporates ongoing administration and assessment. Assessing varying learning styles within a group and considering learner’s motivations and previous experiences helps identify various teaching methods that could be useful throughout the program. Sessions incorporating visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learning styles ensure students have equal rights to learning, and provide the opportunity to re-evaluate what is already known while exploring aims and objectives from a different perspective.
The Teaching/Training Cycle
The teaching and learning cycle is an effective organisational framework when planning, delivering and assessment of any form of teaching, whether this is in a formal classroom setting, or for business skills development of staff whilst on the job.
The teaching and learning cycle represents the four stages that occur in the design and delivery of classroom tasks that incorporate an outcomes-based approach. The cycle has no start or end point, with each step informing the next. It is the process of gathering data and reflection that dictates where in the cycle my role as a teacher needs to be operating.
What does the teaching and learning cycle look like?
The Training Cycle
My teacher role, responsibilities and boundaries have evolving qualities which are assessed and reflected upon, using the teaching/training...