Explain How To Establish And Maintain A Safe Teaching And Learning Environment
Part one
A teacher/tutor needs to establish and maintain a safe learning environment for their learners, in order to do this a holistic approach should be taken by the teacher whilst identifying and taking into consideration any physical, social and educational elements.
To identify and address physical elements of the learning environment a teacher will ensure they are aware of all relevant procedures and policies surrounding health, safety and safeguarding and carry out risk assessments where required. The social aspect of the environment will be steered from the ground rules initially set and maintained by the teacher to ensure that the environment is free from discrimination, equality is promoted and the environment remains one where …show more content…
In addition to this the teacher is also responsible for the learning of the individuals and the management of learning support staff and teaching assistants.
Learning process and learning styles are key throughout the teaching cycle, Kolb (1984) developed a learning styles model which works on two levels and consists of a four stage cycle of learning and four learning styles,
“Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience” (David. A Kolb, 1984)
The four stages in the cycle of learning identified include concrete experience, where the learner experiences a new situation or encountered, reflective observation where the learner reflects of the experience, abstract conceptualization where reflection gives the learner a new idea/approach to an existing concept and active experimentation where the learner applies these ideas/approaches to see what results are achieved. This four stage cycle is key within the teaching/learning environment as it is based on and allows a teacher to cover different learning styles whilst delivering their
A teacher/tutor needs to establish and maintain a safe learning environment for their learners, in order to do this a holistic approach should be taken by the teacher whilst identifying and taking into consideration any physical, social and educational elements.
To identify and address physical elements of the learning environment a teacher will ensure they are aware of all relevant procedures and policies surrounding health, safety and safeguarding and carry out risk assessments where required. The social aspect of the environment will be steered from the ground rules initially set and maintained by the teacher to ensure that the environment is free from discrimination, equality is promoted and the environment remains one where …show more content…
In addition to this the teacher is also responsible for the learning of the individuals and the management of learning support staff and teaching assistants.
Learning process and learning styles are key throughout the teaching cycle, Kolb (1984) developed a learning styles model which works on two levels and consists of a four stage cycle of learning and four learning styles,
“Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience” (David. A Kolb, 1984)
The four stages in the cycle of learning identified include concrete experience, where the learner experiences a new situation or encountered, reflective observation where the learner reflects of the experience, abstract conceptualization where reflection gives the learner a new idea/approach to an existing concept and active experimentation where the learner applies these ideas/approaches to see what results are achieved. This four stage cycle is key within the teaching/learning environment as it is based on and allows a teacher to cover different learning styles whilst delivering their