Tda 3.1 Summarise The Roles Of School Governors

• School Governors

The governors have important responsibility towards schools. Governors can be appointed by local authority, parents or local community. In school there are 10 to 12 people appointed as a governors, among of all this governors there should be one parent governor. Local authority governor appointed by local authority and local community governor who normally work or live in the community governor who served by the school. School governors normally work with head teacher. They are not seen in the school days but attend the meeting related to school management. Governor’s main responsibilities are to set school’s aims and objective for the school, to approve new policies, to set the targets to achieve the aims of the school and their objectives.

• Senior Management Team

Senior management team is made up with experience people like head teacher, deputy head teacher, year group leader. Their role is to set the strategic direction of the school and then manage this, lead any changes and generally make sure that the school is doing the best it can for the children who attend the school. They normally meet once in a week to discuss the topic which related to school and make decisions on the issues of the school.

• SENCO

SENCO has to take responsibility of

that children who need extra support in learning or improve their behaviour in the school. SENCO is people who are appointed for special needs children, who are the staff of the school. Their main responsibilities are inspect the records of all children with special educational needs. Advising to learning support assistants, overseeing every day the action of the school for SEN policy, inspect the record of special needs children.

• Teachers
Teachers have most important part of role of the schools.

They have many and most responsibility towards children and school. For follow their responsibility they have to plan everything before they go to teach the children. Teachers prepare lessons and try to make them as interesting as possible. They prepare homework assignments and assessments. They ensure that the information they pass on is current and correct to the best of their knowledge. They deliver assessments to enable themselves to help each individual student to develop his/her knowledge. They do not judge any of their students. They feedback to parents/carers on the students’

progress.

• Support Staff
School has many people who support to the school. That includes, teaching assistants, school admin staff, school caretaker managers, SEN assistants, ICT technicians, MSA and voluntary people. All support staff has different role to play in the school. Teaching assistant normally play major role in support staff. Their strategic purpose of their role is to give extra support to that children who needs extra help in literacy and numeracy. They take group of children in different area and help them to achieve their study level. Teaching assistant always help to teachers to set up the classroom and after finish each learning activities. They always work under teacher’s instructions.