Assingment Task 3

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Explain the teaching role and responsibilities in education and training, including how this relates to the teaching/training cycle.

Teachers in lifelong learning sector mainly take on a role of a lecturer, trainer or assessor but can be given various responsibilities. The main role of any teacher is to ensure that all learners have equal and fair access to learning resources and safe, conducive learning environment. It’s teacher’s responsibility to assess and identify various learning styles, and design the curriculum to meet the individual learners’ needs. They must be aware of guidelines and methodologies, be responsible for providing sufficient and constructive feedback, take on a role of an Internal or External Verifier, and actively manage learning resources to ensure the quality of learning experience to all learners.
In context of a learning cycle, an ICT and Employability Skills Tutor’s main responsibilities are to assess and identify learners’ needs and plan the sessions accordingly, taking into consideration their age, previous experience, learning styles and any barriers they may have (e.g. language barrier, special educational needs, disabilities). The delivery itself must be relevant and teaching resources need to be tailored to the individual needs of a learner; these would include a fair amount of demonstration and practical activities, e.g. how to operate a mouse and a keyboard, online jobsearch or application form analysis. Tutor will then be responsible to assess learners’ work. In respect of ICT or Employability Skills the assessment is formative and most of the time informal, but it’s designed to give tutor an idea how well learners’ understood the subject and what help, if any, needs to be offered to impro...

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... Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000, and the learners have right to see the information an organisation holds about them. Keeping full and accurate records is essential for several reasons I have touched upon briefly answering question 6. Moreover, record keeping must be compliant with Office of Standard in Education’s (Ofsted) guidelines and provide information required by institutes of higher education and employers. These may be records of achievement, dates and grades, assessment tracking sheet illustrating learner’s progression throughout the course, diagnostic or initial assessment results, observation checklists and learning styles results. Also, keeping records like action plans, receipts of assignments, tutorial reviews, unit declarations and witness testimonies is necessary in case a learner appeals against an assessment decision.

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