Award in Education and Teaching
Understanding Roles, Responsibilities and Relationships in Teaching and Education
In this assignment I am going to explain how to understand the roles, responsibilities and relationships in teaching and education and how they relate to the teaching cycle and the theories of learning.
1.1 Explain the Teaching role and responsibilities in Education and Training
The roles and responsibilities of a teacher will differ during the teaching cycle, there are five stages to the teaching cycle starting with identifying the needs of the learner. At this stage the role of teacher could be an assessor, the responsibility of the teacher is to identify the needs of the learner and to monitor their own practice to ensure the learner needs are met.
The planning and design stage of the teaching cycle, the role of the teacher is a …show more content…
The teacher needs to make sure the learner can attend, participate and achieve. Learner needs can vary from social, physical, intellectual, cultural and emotional so any resources used needs to be accessible and inclusive to all learners. These needs can affect how a learner interacts, accesses learning and how they can gain new skills.
The VAK learning styles describes three styles of learning:
Visual learning style prefers to see or observe things and will be best at learning a new task after reading instructions or watching someone else do it first.
Auditory learning style prefers to listen to people or sounds and can best perform a task after listening to the instructions.
Kinaesthetic learning style prefers physical experience, touching, feeling and doing and can best learn new tasks by trying and learning as they go.
2.1 Explain ways to maintain a safe and supportive learning