Resources for Learning and Development

This document discusses the importance of understanding the needs of learners and preparing resources for learning and development. It also explores the principles behind resource selection and the use of technology to meet learning needs. The document emphasizes the importance of legislative and organizational requirements for health, safety, welfare, equality, and inclusion.

Develop and prepare
resources for learning
and development

Table of Contents
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
1.1- Agree needs of learners for whom resources are being developed ..........................3
1.2- Prepare resources for the delivery of learning and development ensuring legislative
and organisational health, safety, welfare, equality and inclusion requirements are met 4
1.3- Plan adaptations and use of technology within resources to meet learning and
development needs. 2.1- Explain principles underpinning resource selection for learning
and development...............................................................................................................7
1.4- Prepare guidance to assist those using learning and development resources ...........8
1.5- Evaluate the suitability of resources for learning and development..........................9
2.2- Analyse factors that are important when developing and preparing resources that
conform to national legislation and organisational policies ..........................................10
2.3- Evaluate the contribution of technology to the development of learning and
development resources....................................................................................................12
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................14

MAIN BODY
1.1- Agree needs of learners for whom resources are being developed
There are several aspects which can be impacted on the learners ambitions, needs,
decision making, ability and approaches of learning such as social, cultural, institutional
aspects and personal barriers. Through this they also able to access the information, skills and
knowledge in effective manner. In respect of this, it is essential that teacher must provide
lecture in common language at initial stage so that learner understand the concept in proper
manner, in this it is not necessary to use English. According to the perspective of Gorard,
See, and Davies (2012), that there are some situation arise in which students not able to
understand perspective of teachers due to which students feel demotivated, confused as well
as frustrated. In this situation students not able to clear their doubts because they have fear
that teacher will not respond or they scold them that why they will taught same topic again
and again. Moreover they also feel uncomfortable because other will stare them while they
ask question to teacher. These are main negative aspects due to which student not able to
attain their desire grades because they not able to clear their confusion properly which impact
on their study.
Along with this, there are some learner who need to have special educational need
(SEN) or disability that may prevent them from attaining its desire goal. A student may
experienced issues in cope with classroom lessons, activities, homework and many more
which was conducted by teacher. Due to this there may situation arise in which learner get
frustrated as they think that he/ she is not appropriate like other. This will also impact on the
moral as well as motivation level of student which also affect their grades. In addition to this,
student will also think that they are not much appropriate like their co students as they are not
facing issues in understanding lesson but he or she is experiencing.
Furthermore, aspect which impact student is that they may struggle from the literacy
as well as numeracy which will affect the situation in which they can get high grade in order
to get appropriate or dream job. But there are some students who have proper facilities which
help them in conducting appropriate study along with extra revision at home so that get high
grade. In some situation teacher also do discrimination by support other students instead of
those who required which impact on their motivation level. Furthermore sometime situation

arise in which student have financial issues due to which they not afford tuition which impact
on their study as well as grades.
According to the perspective of Gravel and Simpson (2010), every leader are not
same as their perspective, learning preferences and skills are different such as one leaner can
be visual learner which can learn things by seeing it visually. On the other hand, another
learner can be auditory learner who can learn things by hearing whereas last type of learner is
kinaesthetic learner who leader by conducting things in practical way. There are several
situation in which learners preferred more then one learning situation that depend on their
learning power as well as situation for attaining the desire goal and target.
By analysing this it can be determined that in order to being an effective learner they
need to have several resources such as good and experienced teacher, availability of
computer, proper school/ university or colleges and many more. This is so because through
that they able to develop their career in effective manner as well as it also aid in developing a
successful and effective future by getting dream job with handsome package.
1.2- Prepare resources for the delivery of learning and development ensuring legislative and
organisational health, safety, welfare, equality and inclusion requirements are met
Each and every company has its own policies as well as procedures which are
necessary to follow by their employees in order to maintain effective environment of
workplace. As per the perspective of The Personal School and FE College (2020), legislation
are essential to follow because that proper policies as well as procedures will help in
safeguarding learners. This will be possible as it will provide proper guidelines in order to
develop effective safe as well as healthy workplace environment where ever learner get equal
opportunities. In respect of my case there are several important policies, code of practices and
legislation which I need to abide by instance such as I must make sure that I need to follow
health and safety policies. This is so because that will help in make sure that every person is
safe as well as it also help in ensuring that children and other practitioner are safe by
following all legal aspects in proper way. Moreover, I also follow Designate Safeguarding
Leads (DSL) in respect of that I conduct proper risk evaluation before my student enter the
class so that no miss-happing will happen with them. In addition to this I also do evaluation
in afternoon in order to ensure that no hazard will happen to student which impact on their
life.

In addition to this, I also follow Safeguarding Vulnerable Group Act which is
introduced in 2006 and Children Act 1989 in order to ensure that I safe guard children as well
as I also ensure that I protect children from any kind of harm as well as abuse situation. It will
help me in picking up signs of the early abuse which may happen to child and I also follow
our policy that reported in my designated safeguarding leads (DSL) and it also provide me to
conduct proper paper work related to the investigation and accordingly I develop strategies.
In addition to this I also follow equality and diversity Act which is introduced in 2010 in
order to treat each and every children equally as well as it also help me in ensuring that every
student is getting equal opportunity without any discrimination. I do this because I want that
my young learner learn the importance as well as concept of equality and diversity in
effective manner. Along with this , I also implement general data protection regulation that
(GDPR) 2018 in order to protect personal as well as private information or student like name,
date of birth , picture, contact details, parent's income and many others. This will help me in
ensuring that personal information of students are not misused by any person for illegal work.
In respect of this I save all information in my computer at office which is secure by strong
password.
Moreover, I also have my boundaries related to my teaching role which immensely
serious as it outline all the essential traits which practitioner need to abide as well as it will
include aspects like teaching without any type of stereotyping and discrimination. Conducting
upholding the confidentiality of children information by keeping their personal information
safe. There are several teaching materials which a teacher required in order to conduct proper
teaching practices such as crayons, pen, paper, highlighters, sticky notes, white board and
many more. These all resources are used by me in order to deliver quality session to the
learner so that they attain good grade and attain their desire goal successful. Being a teacher I
need to conduct several activities such as analysis learner so that I can tell them about their
strengths, weaknesses, skills and abilities so that they can develop strategies for improving
their weakness properly. In addition to this, it will be my duty in this that I must encourage
learner so that they attain their desire goal and objectives in effective manner as well as
through it I also able to enhance their potential successfully.
As per the view point of Beetham and Sharpe (2013), the main purpose of expanding
and catering individual learning experience is to design learning resources as that will add
positive connotation related to learning. This will make learner more effective as well as
through that they able to attain the desire goal as well as objectives in effective manner.

Along with this, another primary aim of designing resources is to aid a person's learning aim
as well as make sure that resources that are offer to them support learners learning as well as
resolve their issues properly by developing learning environment.
In my nursery class there are several instances due to which I meed to adapt different
resources in order to attract as well as catch attention of learners so that they conduct proper
studies. It is determined that in order to catch attention of learners visual as well as hearing
impairments which include several aspects such as printed picture or worksheet on A3 and
A4 paper, their must be consistent size of font so that learner can see it properly without any
issue. In respect of this I develop resource for my learners which have hearing modifying
include learning environment this will possible by downloading podcast of Power point
presentation as well as I also plan lesson in audio in order to make study more easy as well as
interesting for learners.
In addition to this, I also develop numbers of resources for my learner such as flash
cards which has pictures of task, object or command, then I hole punch it as well as put it on
a lanyard so that learner can access it quickly and easy. For example in order to tell learner
that it is lunch time I show flash card of lunch as well as before and after it I show then
washing the hand flash cash so they wash hand in proper way. This will help in ensure about
their health and hygiene safety effectively and properly.
1.3- Plan adaptations and use of technology within resources to meet learning and
development needs. 2.1- Explain principles underpinning resource selection for
learning and development
I use numerous varieties of resource in my teaching which I used to satisfy and cater
my learners needs. In this resources which are involve are interactive white board, work
sheets, handouts, power point presentation, text books and many more. Through these
resources I able to create effective learning environment for learners which attract then and
encourage to be focused on study at class. According to me, I involve both tradition as well
as modern style of teaching as involve online video, text books, handbooks, power point
presentation and so on which is considered as modern way of teaching. On the other hand
white board is determined as the traditional way of teaching. Through this I able to encourage
my learner to be focus on their studies.
The whiteboard which is considered interactive tool allow learners to utilize it in the
numbers of ways as well as in this pen will used to focus and engage learners in learning

activities. In learning process books are considered as traditional style of learning which
provide effective information to students in order to enhance their skills and abilities. The
books generally contain topics related to the course. But currently teacher are opting power
point presentation which is modern methods of learning as well as it also help in drawing
attention of learner. Through power point presentation and book learning process can be
conducted on continuous basis as well as it also provide proper information to learner about
their topic. Along with this there is worksheets which are used to determine if the learner is
understanding the lesson in proper manner or not. By this teacher can identify weak part of
the students according to which they can conduct improvement activities in effective manner.
It is essential for the teachers to adopt best methods for conducting learning process as that
will enhance learners effectively successfully.
The effectiveness of personalised resources for every learners as that help learners to
understand whether they are lacking according to which they can develop improvement plan
in effective manner. This is essential to conduct because it is natural that every student
learning capacity is different as well as they may also have different ambition according to
which learning plan need to develop, these activities can be in the form or information,
speech, writing and so on. Resources which can be download such as e book, power point
presentation, work sheet, work documents, podcast and so on have several advantages such as
it is easily accessible, it is flexible to study as well as it can be access through phone, iPad,
laptop and so on whether internet connectivity is provided. On the other hand disadvantages
of this is it need to update on the regular basis so that students get proper information related
to the course. Moreover there are several resources of learning such as power point
presentation which is not easily accessible by some students due to some software this may
impact on their learning process. Similar to this other resources also have positive as well as
negative aspects such as work sheet may easily downloaded through internet connectivity
which save time but when students only prefer work sheet motivation level of teacher get
decreased as well as it also leads to laziness among teachers.
According to my nursery class I generally adopt equality and diversity procedure in
which every students need to treated equally as well as I also ensure that no discrimination
will conducted with any students on the basis of colour, age , background, culture and so on. I
also ensure that every student get equal opportunity for the success and growth. In order to
encourage learners I opt different resources which show equality and diversity such as
picture, posters, display board and so on. Through this students feel motivated as well as

encourage so that they feel attractive and attentive in class. This will also help in developing
culture among the learners that they never do discrimination with others on the basis of
colour, age , background, culture, religion and many others. It is also help them in becoming
an effective citizen or person which leads to effective environment. In respect of this we also
try to celebrate different religion occasions in proper manner.
1.4- Prepare guidance to assist those using learning and development resources
There are several different strategies which a person can learn in order to adopt
resources or to advice other that how they can use resource in effective way, for this they opt
for the guidance which are manual to assist as well as it help in attaining the desire goal. As
per the view point of Kelly and Phillips (2010), through guidance manual a person able to
learn things and how to operate that will help teachers, students and learners in order to attain
their desire gaol successfully. It will also help in determining which resources of teaching
must be used in specific situation as well as it also help learner who have special educational
autism, requirement and hearing impairments. In this they generally offer guidance for
teacher so that they use resources in effective way so that student can enhance their skills and
abilities. It is also essential that a person must adopt policies and procedure so that they can
conduct all activities within the boundaries as well as it also help in ensuring all practices are
conducting in legal manner. In this it is essential to follow health and safety guidelines in
order to ensure that no student or learner can get harm from the any learning activities neither
in mental nor physical manner. In this it is essential that organisation also follow rules and
regulation for maintaining the health as well as well being of the learners and students in
order to avoid harm of individual.
Furthermore, when a person develop the resources they need to considered several
primary aspects which ensure the learner's health as well as safety and in respect of this
several factors need to considered such as learning preferences, need and like of learner, style
and many more. This will leads to using of resources in effective manner so that it will help
in attainment of desire goal, target as well as ambitions in best manner and operations related
to it are done in best manner. This process of developing resources may take months or years
in order to develop due to which it is essential to develop as well as it can be implemented in
several situation take place at the workplace. In order to implement resources it is not
necessary for organisation to buy several resources so that they can cater to every learners

requirement, preferences, style of learning and many more as it can be satisfy every learners
such as visual learners, auditory learners as well as kinaesthetic learners.
1.5- Evaluate the suitability of resources for learning and development
In order to enhance skills and abilities of the teacher, there is a rule in our institutes
according to which at the end of every session learner need to provide us honest feedbacks.
This session is conducted in order to evaluation about teachers, their skills and resources
which they provide to students for improvement. Through this process we (teachers) able to
determined our strengths as well as weakness according to which we can develop proper
strategies and plans in effective manner. It is essential to us to enhance our skills and abilities
because through that we can help our learners to attain their desire goal in career in effective
manner.
In respect of this feedback sheets are given to the learner in order to provide feedback
so that I can conduct improvement accordingly. This will the opportunity for my learners that
they display gratitudes as well as concern about resources and methods which I used to teach
them. On every Friday I attend pre scheduled meeting in order to discuss with my internal
professionals whether I meet the target, standard and effectiveness of teaching through
difference resources or not. Along with this external verifiers like Ofsted and special
education needs team (SENCO) evaluate my performance and feedback provided by others as
well as then accordingly they provide suggestions to me that how can I enhance my skills,
abilities and knowledges properly. In respect of my system we conduct peer assessments
programmes in every month that is based on the detailed piece of observation which is
conducted by my colleagues based on my practice and how effective I did engage my
learners in the classroom. They also evaluate things which I done in effective way as well as
they also determine factors which I need to improve for conducting work in effective manner.
The feedbacks which are provided by peer are in the written as well as verbal for so that I can
enhance my skills and abilities by conducting planning in effective manner.
In addition to this, at our workplace me and my colleagues conduct observation of
teaching every month in order to understand each other learning style. Through this we can
aware others about their mistakes as well as it also aid us in understand new ways of teaching
in more attractive as well as interesting manner. This process also help in enhancing our
personal as well as professional through which we can develop our career in effective
manner. This will be possible because we able to understand as well as learn new and

innovative ways of learning which is helpful for our as well as learner career growth. I also,
observes my colleagues as well, to provide significant feedback to them. Similarly, my
learners also give me verbal feedback as well in each session to make sure that they are
satisfied with the activity and that they are liking the activity and learning new things because
it is immensely important to me that they are heard and that their feedback is taken heed on.
2.2- Analyse factors that are important when developing and preparing resources that
conform to national legislation and organisational policies
There are several significant legislation and organisational policies which are
necessary to follow by a company or any institutions in order to conduct their business
operations and functions in effective manner. Moreover, national legislation as well as
organisation policies also effective for the development and preparing of resources for
instance. Below some of the national legislation and organisational policies are mentioned
below:-
The equality act 2010 which states that every learner should be treat the same and offered
help, support and equal opportunities regardless of any circumstances. This likewise applies
to when developing and creating resources because the learner must be at the focal point and
their needs, preferences and safety must be always adhered to. The resource should cater to
learners with learning needs, physical needs, speech delay etc. as every learner must be
catered to and thought about because the equality act states that no individual should be
discriminated against.
The discrimination act likewise states that we cannot directly or indirectly discriminate
against any individual or a certain group but rather be welcoming, inclusive and loving
towards each and every individual. When it comes to developing resources and making them
the teacher must think about meeting every learners needs, preference and interests as they
cannot leave a certain type of learners out because this is not adhering to the act, policy and
legislation. The teacher must also think about how the resources can help and cater to their
visual, Kinaesthetic and auditory learners and help them learn with ease and reach their goals.
During the initial meeting, there is a conversation that the manager of the organisation has
with the soon to be staff member in order to highlights the policy, procedures and legal duty/
responsibilities of the teacher regarding the Data Protection, privacy, confidentiality,
safeguarding and disclosure which are discussed in immense detail. The relationship that the
teacher has with the manager, organisation, fellow staff members and learner are all built

upon trust, fair judgment and following the memo of treating others the way you want to be
treated. During the first encounter the learner’s personal information will be required for
instance, name, contact information and address. Because the organisation will require this as
part of their General Data Protection Regulation policy (GDPR) (2018). Both of the learners
and staff member’s private information must be stored safely and they must be secure.
Furthermore, the conversation that takes place between the teacher and the learners
are private and confidential which means that it is not shared with anyone else unless the
situation is a safeguarding concern or the learner gives the teacher consent to do so, because
the relationship is built upon trust and it cannot be maintained if the teacher shares their
conversations outside of the professional relationship. Likewise, the teacher has to follow
their confidentiality policy which is making sure they do not discuss the learner’s personal
information and private conversation with anyone else outside of the organisation as this can
put the learner at risk if their information is handed into the wrong hands. When it comes to
safeguarding and disclosures, the teacher must have the learners best interest at heart
regardless of their difference. On the other hand, if harassment or bulling occurs to the
teacher or learner then they must report/ signpost this to the proper individuals/ authority
which is the designated safeguarding lead (DSL) because the teacher should not be in a
position which is degrading or harmful themselves. The safeguarding policy is to protect the
learner as well as themselves from any harm that may occur and to make sure that no harm
happens to the learner as this is the teacher’s main priority. Ultimately, the teacher must
follow their confidentiality, safeguarding, general data protection regulation and privacy
policy which is to make sure that the learners are safe and satisfied and only disclose
information if is of a harmful nature or illegal matter in which case they must report it
according to the organisation policies to the designated safeguarding lead (DSL).
These are some main of the main legislation and organisational policies that are
essential to implement in organisation as well as educational institutions. It is so because that
will help in protecting rights of every individual and it also minimize the chance of
discrimination among the different participants in effective manner. In addition to this these
legislation and policies also aid in ensuring that all the work at the campus or workplace is
conducted in proper manner as well as all the personal information are safe and secure
properly.

2.3- Evaluate the contribution of technology to the development of learning and development
resources
In order to several technology methods related to the learning and development it is
essential to considered several things such as capabilities of learners, availability of computer
for educational activities, different packages of courses, programmes, expertises and many
more. It is essential to conduct evaluation of these aspects because that will in decision
making for the proper learning and development activities or resources. The capability of the
developer, availability of the technology and facilities for instance, are the facilities available
that are being developed by the teacher. Moreover it may also include several other aspects
such as website are they accessible and available to all learners, current problems that might
be experienced by the learners for instance do they have the facility of computers, laptop,
Internet access at home, printer etc. According to the perspective of Gravell and Simpson
(2009) it is essential for the teacher as well as practitioner needs to be familiar to several
aspects such as they must be able to operate sites and equipments in proper way. Along with
this, it is also essential that teacher and practitioner need to knowledge about the upgraded
information of licence and copyright. Moreover they also need to take permission from the
person who create specific project because they involve their endless time so they must get its
credit. Similar to every aspects technology resources also have some strengths as well as
limitation such as technology resource make work easy and effective which lead to
accomplishment of task in best manner with minimum or no error. On the other hand,
limitation related to it is the technology based resources are comparatively more costly then
others. This will enhance the budget or expenses of company which adopt technology for
operations and functions.
There are numbers of resources available for the situation related to teaching or
learning such as You Tube videos, research availability, power point presentation, video,
poster and many more. Through these resources teacher able to make learning process in
more effective as well as attractive which aid in attainment of desire goal and objective
successfully by supporting student learning. In addition to this, technology used in setting as
well as classrooms are secure and supervised by the proper security system in computer
which has strong password. This is so because through that individual personal information
can be secure and it also block any type of theft or misuse of information. In this process
several written resources are adopted like hand books in order to enhance as well as meet

individual learner learning by providing then easy and effective resources for proper
education.
Moreover, there are several other ways through which teacher can attain their desire
goal and objective of teaching learner such as use of graphics through image or picture as it
help in improving the study process by making it attracting and interesting. In addition to
this, it is also essential to provide feedbacks to the teachers so that they conduct improvement
which enhance the learning style. According to which recommendations as well as suggestion
will provided for improvement of education system in effective manner.

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