Consider your own roles and responsibilities in the lifelong learning sector, provide an explanation of how the teacher training cycle applies to your present or future teaching circumstances.
The definition of a role is, 'The part played by the person as a societal expectation' Taylor (2013).
Responsibility can be defined as, 'the person or thing for which one is responsible' Taylor (2013).
To place these definitions within the context of this task, the main roles and responsibilities of a teacher is to actively teach learners in a way that will engage and involve them. In order to do this effectively, the teacher will need to consider the level of learning the student is currently at. The teacher will also have to be capable of tailoring their use of language accordingly to enable the learning process to be managed from start to finish. For learning to take place it is important that the teacher gives constructive feedback throughout. Their success will be determined by their age and experience, their learners age and experience, the subject matter and the environment that is available for them to teach in. Taylor (2000).
The author will now go on to provide an explanation of how the roles and responsibilities of a Business Studies Teacher fit within the 'Teaching and Learning Cycle.'
The Teaching and Learning Cycle consists of five key stages to include: Identification of Needs Planning Learning Facilitating Learning Accessing Learning Quality Assurance and Evaluation
For the purpose of this task the two teaching roles that the author has chosen to explain within the 'Identification of Needs' stage are:
The role of an Interviewer The role of a Mentor
The responsibility of an Interviewer within the field of Business studies would be to obtain information about the students who would be potentially joining up to do a 'Marketing' course. Doing this would be vital to