roles and resposibilities and boundaries in teaching cycle
Introduction
It is beyond doubt that any teacher will certainly need to define his role and responsibility when starting to teach a new subject, however, in order to achieve this, it must follow the teaching cycle stages, and each stage is taken into consideration, and then it could be moulded to a specific subject. This will help the teacher to incorporate the various needs of his/her learners, who have levels and preferred learning styles, and will help with choosing and applying the appropriate teaching methods and styles that will ultimately help with ensuring the learners achievement.
In this essay I will be discussing my roles and responsibilities and boundaries that I encounter as a teacher when performing my duties in the lifelong learning sector, and how my role is dictated and affected by the five stages of the teaching cycle. In addition, I will be discussing how the current legislative requirements and code of practice that are affecting my status of professionalism.
Main Body
The teaching cycle consists of five stages, and they are: Identify Need and planning, Designing, Facilitating, Assessing, and evaluating. (Kolb, 1984) states that People have different learning styles which are affected by personality type, educational area, career, and present job role, therefore, my role would be to initially identify the needs of my learners and assess them to find the appropriate teaching styles that suits them, however, at the same time, this would be considered as a one of the boundaries that I would be facing because, I have no way to assess my students till day one of the course when show up In class. I also need to identify the needs of the college that I work for. In addition to the above, my main role at this stage is to come up with a scheme of work, create lesson plans. Some of my responsibilities will include doing research on my subject and keeping up to date with teaching practices.
My role at the design stage would be a variety of
It is beyond doubt that any teacher will certainly need to define his role and responsibility when starting to teach a new subject, however, in order to achieve this, it must follow the teaching cycle stages, and each stage is taken into consideration, and then it could be moulded to a specific subject. This will help the teacher to incorporate the various needs of his/her learners, who have levels and preferred learning styles, and will help with choosing and applying the appropriate teaching methods and styles that will ultimately help with ensuring the learners achievement.
In this essay I will be discussing my roles and responsibilities and boundaries that I encounter as a teacher when performing my duties in the lifelong learning sector, and how my role is dictated and affected by the five stages of the teaching cycle. In addition, I will be discussing how the current legislative requirements and code of practice that are affecting my status of professionalism.
Main Body
The teaching cycle consists of five stages, and they are: Identify Need and planning, Designing, Facilitating, Assessing, and evaluating. (Kolb, 1984) states that People have different learning styles which are affected by personality type, educational area, career, and present job role, therefore, my role would be to initially identify the needs of my learners and assess them to find the appropriate teaching styles that suits them, however, at the same time, this would be considered as a one of the boundaries that I would be facing because, I have no way to assess my students till day one of the course when show up In class. I also need to identify the needs of the college that I work for. In addition to the above, my main role at this stage is to come up with a scheme of work, create lesson plans. Some of my responsibilities will include doing research on my subject and keeping up to date with teaching practices.
My role at the design stage would be a variety of
References: 1- Kolb D.A. (1984) 'Experiential Learning experience as a source of learning and development ', New Jersey: Prentice Hall 2- City and Guilds 7303 Theory Assignment 1. [online] Available from: [Accessed: 11 May 2014]. 3- Peter Honey Publications, The Learning Styles Questionnaire. [online] Available from: [Accessed: 11 May 2014]