The role and responsibilities for Tutors in further education and skills sector to maintain currency in their own subject through knowledge and understanding from research and sharing information is extremely important. Tutors who have the relevant underpinning knowledge when teaching a specialist subject will allow the learner to gain the required results with regards to any aims and objectives and manage Health and Safety issues to create a safe environment to learn.
By maintaining and improving your currency in your chosen subject it will ensure credibility when answering questions by a learner and where appropriate draw on your own personal experience to demonstrate a point. This ensures that learners are receiving the correct knowledge from the learning experience and a better chance of success in what you are trying to achieve.
There are many similar roles and responsibilities which apply to Tutors in post compulsory (further education and skills) sector and the compulsory (school) sector for example, both are required by law and legislation to abide by the following:-
The Health & Safety at Work Act 1974
The Equality Act 2010
Data Protection Act 1998
The Human Rights Act 1998
The Management of Health and Safety at work Act 1999 (Risk Assessments)
There is a body of legislation that applies within both the post and compulsory Sector as a whole under the guidance, Every Child Matters (ECM) and the Children’s Act 2004, which provides all institutions and organisations that come in contact with children up to the age of 19 years old to have a duty to work together to achieve five main outcomes for that child, which are:- be healthy be safe enjoy and achieve make a positive contribution achieve economic well being
Tutors in further education and the compulsory sector share many further roles and responsibilities when engaged in a teaching capacity which are:- preparing lessons prior to delivering them