Pttls_Theory_1

Name: Andrew Alford Date:____14/3/2012 . Describe what your role, responsibilities and boundaries would be as a teacher in terms of the teaching/training cycle. Recommended word count: 300-500 words. In my role as a tutor, I would be teaching adults computing and ICT within the Adult Education department of my local council. Having read the relevant section Ann Gravells book and attending the PTTLS course, I am mindful that I will have to adhere to the elements of the Teaching and training cycle in order to provide an effective learning experience for myself and the students on my course. The five stages of the Teaching and training cycle are labelled as Identifying needs, Planning Learning, Enabling Learning, Assessing learning and quality assurance and evaluation. These elements describe a cycle that can start at and point and continue. To satisfy the Identifying needs stage and to meet the requirements my role and responsibilities, a written assessment is completed upon enrolment onto the course. This has two purposes, one to identify physical needs of the student and also the academic requirement. Within ICT it is important to know the students current levels of proficiency so that the course provides the content that the student requires. From this information I can achieve the ‘planning learning’ stage. This assessment enables me in my responsibilities as a teacher to provide an environment to suit everybody as best as possible. There are however boundaries within my role such as time constraints within teaching time, budgetry constraints, and learner ability. Upon joining the course, students will be welcomed and shown things like fire exits, toilets and refreshment facilities. Further opportunities would then be given to enable students to make me aware of any requirement changes since the initial written assessment was submitted. Students on the course will be allocated a computer each with consideration being made to display screen settings and keyboard layout. They will also be provided with a log in and email address for the duration of the course along with storage space on a local hard drive to store completed work and therefore 'facilitate' learning. Although 'boundaries' are not always negative as structure and time frames will help to stick to the sylabus that im teaching at the time. During this stage, it is important for me to portray a professional image, ie in dress code, being polite and courtious and not overstepping my own 'boundaries'. I understand the benefit of keeping a professional distance between teacher and student. To satisfy the ‘quality assurance stage, every student will be asked to feedback at the end of each session as to how they found the content of the lesson and if the feel any improvement can be made for next time. This would be anything from room layout. As well as this, it is my responsibility to provide Individual Learning Plans for all learners. This will allow the learner to acheive feedback on how they are progressing and for me as a tutor to receive feedback about my own abilities.