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T6 Arif Umar Justify the need for keeping records and describe the types of records you would maintain. I believe that record keeping is an essential tool and constitutes good practice within any industry. Record keeping is however greatly underestimated by many professionals, who often think it is for the clerical staff to carry out. Whilst it is important to have clerical support, it is vital that records are kept by the tutor as part of a students learning structure. There are many standard records and good housekeeping such as student attendance records, individual learning records and assessments results. It is important to be able to maintain records that could be needed to provide accurate information for audit requirements. Good and efficient records are also essential if a tutor is unavailable and a supply tutor needs to conduct the lesson on their behalf. HEALTH AND SAFETY RECORDS Our health and safety records such as register of students, health and safety at work poster, disclaimers of disabilities are all need to ensure we are adhering to current legislation in our provision of training for ourselves and our students and any visitors. As a teacher we have a duty of care to all our visitors and students to ensure that they are kept safe and secure in our environment. Not only does this allow us to meet statuary legislation but also shows the students the importance of such records for everybodys safety. TEACHING RECORDS Teaching records are the most important documents next to health and safety as they allow us to self assess and identify our own area’s of possible improvement and development. Without keeping these records we would not be able to use these findings to better ourselves and intern would not be able to better our students. If our methods of delivery are not successful then it may mean that our quality of training is not even to industry basics. That said this is why we create lesson plans to evaluate the students knowledge in the different sections of the course. LEARNER RECORDS It is extremely important that we keep an up to date record of our students so we may assess areas for improvement and development within them. The most common used record for this would be an individual learning plan. Following our lesson plans and frequenting question and answer sessions. We can assess the students’ knowledge of each section of course. QUALITY ASSURANCE Quality assurance records are used to show continuous development for us as teachers and to our students. The most basic form for this would be an end of session questionnaire asking the students what they thought about the delivered session and how if any the session could be improved upon. This is necessary to provide us as teachers with an up to date feedback method that allows us to quantify our quality 1. No comments Reference: Gravells, A. (2008) Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector 3rd Edition Exeter: Learning matters Curzon, L.B. (2004) Teaching in further education: an outline of principals and practice, sixth edition, London, Continuum. Petty G (2009), Teaching Today, 4th edition, Cheltenham, Nelson Thornes.