The role of a teaching assistant will vary hugely between different schools‚ and there’s often a large variation even within a school. Here we look at the typical job description of a teaching assistant to help you understand what the job involves. Working one-to-one or with small groups of pupils Teaching assistants will often be assigned to individual pupils who are in need of additional help‚ this may be because English is not their first language or because they have learning difficulties and
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Facilitators of Practice Learning and Assessment Word count: 2179 | The purpose of this assignment is to critically reflect on strategies used to mentor a second year mental health student in a community mental health team. The essay will refer to interpersonal skills used to develop the mentor-mentee relationship‚ and the practical steps taken to facilitate learning; to make this more tangible the focus will primarily rest on the author’s approach to teaching the learner how to administer an antipsychotic
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Theories and Principles for Planning and Enabling Learning Assignment Task 1 “The single most characteristic about human beings is that they learn” (Bruner‚ 1960:113). This may be true‚ but to what extent do they learn? Lockitt (1997) suggests that both good and bad learning experience can affect learning. By the time learners’ reach adult or further education they would have already met with a range of learning experiences‚ good or bad. “Many learners wrongly believe that learning comes with age and the
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Statement on Teaching and learning Learning is described as the acquisition of new knowledge which eventually leads to a change in behaviour while teaching is regarded as the transference of knowledge...... As a teacher‚ my main responsibility in the classroom is to facilitate and provide guided my students learning. Learning is the acquiring new knowledge which will lead to behaviour change. On the other hand‚ teaching is transference knowledge in a manner that caters to individual learning styles‚
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Medical Assistant profession is only known in Malaysia. It is part of the medical profession creates by the Ministry of Health‚ Malaysia in the sixties to overcome the shortage of medical officer in the country. We need to go through three years training program conducted by our Ministry of Health in order to be a qualified as a Medical Assistant. My speciality is in Emergency and Trauma care management‚ with sixteen years working experiences in the Emergency Department (ETD) and currently attached
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Findings 3 What is Inclusive Learning? 3 Learning Environment 4 Access for all 4 Inclusive Learning in Initial Assessment 6 Inclusive learning in the classroom 6 Assessment 9 Conclusion 10 Bibliography 12 A critical evaluation of the principles and practice of Inclusive Learning within XXXXXX XXXXXX. Introduction XXXXXX XXXXXX is a registered charity offering work based learning programmes to young adults. Within my role as Advanced Teaching Practitioner‚ I am responsible
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Explain the boundaries between the teaching role and other lifelong learning professional roles. Summarise your own responsibilities in relation to other lifelong learning professionals Within the 2003 workload agreement (Woodward and Peart‚ 2013) its explains the levels of work a teacher could reasonably expect but also defines the roles which would provide a framework of support to the teachers role. Though this applies to secondary education the principles can inform teacher roles in the lifelong
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This essay discusses two of the theories surrounding children’s learning and development. It further goes on to discuss how they could be used to inform practice in the classroom. The two theories to be discussed are Vygotsky’s Social Development Theory and Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory. Lev Vygotsky was a Russian psychologist who lived from 1896 to 1934. He was widely involved in developing the education program of the emerging Soviet Union. At the time of his death‚ his theory was
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ROLE OF A TEACHING ASSISTANT 1.Duties and responsibilities: • To provide educational‚ emotional and physical support to pupils. • To work with individuals and groups of children under the direction of a class teacher. • To support the class teacher in developing and preparing specific activities and programmes of support for the children. • To organise the availability and care of class room resources. • To ensure health and safety of the children and to report all concerns
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Unit 012 Principles of assessments in lifelong learning Zoe Swinger Gravells (2012) describes an assessment as a way of finding out if the learning has taken place. Petty (1998) also describes an assessment as “collecting‚ measuring and interpreting information relating to students responses to the process of instruction”. Assessments main function is to see what learning has taken place. Assessment should be valid and reliable‚ and ensures trainers as well as learners have a correct and sound
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