Assignment 303

Assignment 303 – Support Learning Activities. 1.1 A Learning support practitioner may contribute by maybe planning a lesson or a set task within a set lesson that the teacher has planned, with the teachers permission. They might also put their ideas forward of what they might think might work within a lesson, or what the children might enjoy doing. With the delivery side a support practitioner might help the teacher deliver the lesson, so that the practitioner gets a bit of experience and builds their confidence up. Also the practitioner could bring in the materials that are needed for a certain task within the day or maybe for a certain day so that it’s not always the teachers that have to bring in materials. With the review of learning activities, it is always good to involve a learning support practitioner, because they can say what they think that worked well, and something that maybe they thought didn’t work too well, because the children weren’t really engaging in the work / task. It is also good because, if the learning support practitioner is watching another people, it would give them new ideas of how other teachers and teaching assistants do things, how they deal with situations and different ideas for teaching lessons.

1.2 Over the past year I have gained some strengths, I have become a lot more confident so that has put a positive attitude / impact in small groups that I work with because the children have more confidence towards me, and actually want to do the asked task rather than running away or not really engaging. Also the way in which I teach the groups has improved, because I’ve taken advice from other members of staff who have done it a lot longer than I have and know what things work and which things don’t

3.2 Social organisation and relationships may affect the learning process because the child / children involved may get caught up in relationships / social organisation with other people, and not be able to access the