Assessment and Pupils
Compare and contrast the roles of the teacher and the learning support practitioner in the assessment of learners’ achievements.
The class teacher has many responsibilities and it is not mainly teaching on a daily basis, but the same important is to monitor children’s progress through regular assessments. Teachers must know whether children progress or know and how it was achieved. It is extremely important to have this feedback for parents and other staff. Regular assessments take lots of time and in this point the role of a teaching assistant is crucial for providing continuity in this process. As a teaching assistant my main role is to support the class teacher whilst this on-going assessment of pupils takes place. The teacher can measure the progress of each pupil by carrying out lessons and setting the children clear objectives. Children, the teacher and the teaching assistant have to be aware of objective during every class session. This is why it is a good idea to display learning objective at the start of each session. In this way children understand what they are going to learn and I know what I should support.
In order to assess pupil’s achievements the teacher will take the main lead in doing so and the learning support practitioner will take guidance from the teacher’s assessments in order to support the pupil’s progress. Teaching assistant’s role at this time will be to support the teacher and have an input by discussing how they also believe the student is coping with the subject and to help set targets that can be put into the teacher’s report so the student can achieve to their full potential. In order to progress in a lesson a teacher will plan each lesson by producing a scheme of work, so that the learning objectives for that lesson are clear (as mentioned before), the teaching assistant will support the teacher by looking at the scheme of work prepared and after discussing with the teacher will prepare differentiated materials for SEN,
The class teacher has many responsibilities and it is not mainly teaching on a daily basis, but the same important is to monitor children’s progress through regular assessments. Teachers must know whether children progress or know and how it was achieved. It is extremely important to have this feedback for parents and other staff. Regular assessments take lots of time and in this point the role of a teaching assistant is crucial for providing continuity in this process. As a teaching assistant my main role is to support the class teacher whilst this on-going assessment of pupils takes place. The teacher can measure the progress of each pupil by carrying out lessons and setting the children clear objectives. Children, the teacher and the teaching assistant have to be aware of objective during every class session. This is why it is a good idea to display learning objective at the start of each session. In this way children understand what they are going to learn and I know what I should support.
In order to assess pupil’s achievements the teacher will take the main lead in doing so and the learning support practitioner will take guidance from the teacher’s assessments in order to support the pupil’s progress. Teaching assistant’s role at this time will be to support the teacher and have an input by discussing how they also believe the student is coping with the subject and to help set targets that can be put into the teacher’s report so the student can achieve to their full potential. In order to progress in a lesson a teacher will plan each lesson by producing a scheme of work, so that the learning objectives for that lesson are clear (as mentioned before), the teaching assistant will support the teacher by looking at the scheme of work prepared and after discussing with the teacher will prepare differentiated materials for SEN,