Wider Professional Practice
ASSIGNMENT - UNIT 7 Wider professional practice
1 Write a critical reflection on the extent to which learning can contribute to the personal development, economic growth and community regeneration of your learners.
2 Write an analysis of how relevant government policies and initiatives impact on own role and teaching and learning within the Lifelong Learning Sector.
3 Provide extracts from their ongoing reflective journal to analyse and evaluate:
Their understanding of the principles and processes of evaluation including its role in quality assurance.
Their own application of evaluation processes, working with others and their use of data and other feedback for evaluation.
4 Have embedded equality of opportunity and respect for diversity within your teaching and learning practice.
5 Examine the impact of their own professional values and judgements on teaching and learning.
INTRODUCTION
This assignment will explore the ever expanding growth of government’s initiatives, programmes, and policies focusing attention on involving, engaging field of the post compulsory education sector, in particular the assignment shall focus on the key issues of government policies, core professional values and accountability within the Lifelong Learning Sector and how this impacts on the teachers, students and the community. Application and evaluation of quality assurance, quality improvement systems and improvement of one’s own professional practice shall be explored.
Government’s policies have always and will always impact on the Lifelong Learning Sector (LLS). In 2003, Office for Standards in Education Children’s Services and Skills (OfSTED) highlighted a weakness and the government set about implementing a package of reforms. It noted that much of it was inappropriate for the particular skills that FE teachers were transmitting. Following this, the Foster and Leitch reviews both emphasised the need to improve the reputation of further education
1 Write a critical reflection on the extent to which learning can contribute to the personal development, economic growth and community regeneration of your learners.
2 Write an analysis of how relevant government policies and initiatives impact on own role and teaching and learning within the Lifelong Learning Sector.
3 Provide extracts from their ongoing reflective journal to analyse and evaluate:
Their understanding of the principles and processes of evaluation including its role in quality assurance.
Their own application of evaluation processes, working with others and their use of data and other feedback for evaluation.
4 Have embedded equality of opportunity and respect for diversity within your teaching and learning practice.
5 Examine the impact of their own professional values and judgements on teaching and learning.
INTRODUCTION
This assignment will explore the ever expanding growth of government’s initiatives, programmes, and policies focusing attention on involving, engaging field of the post compulsory education sector, in particular the assignment shall focus on the key issues of government policies, core professional values and accountability within the Lifelong Learning Sector and how this impacts on the teachers, students and the community. Application and evaluation of quality assurance, quality improvement systems and improvement of one’s own professional practice shall be explored.
Government’s policies have always and will always impact on the Lifelong Learning Sector (LLS). In 2003, Office for Standards in Education Children’s Services and Skills (OfSTED) highlighted a weakness and the government set about implementing a package of reforms. It noted that much of it was inappropriate for the particular skills that FE teachers were transmitting. Following this, the Foster and Leitch reviews both emphasised the need to improve the reputation of further education
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