Unit 4 Wider Professional Practice and Development in Education and Training

This report discusses the importance of professionalism and dual professionalism in education and training, the skills and attributes required of a good teacher, ways in which social, political and economic factors influence education policy, and the impact of current educational policies on curriculum and practice in own area of specialism. It also covers the roles of stakeholders and external bodies in education and training, quality improvements and assurance arrangements of own organization, and the function of self-assessment and self-evaluation in the quality cycle.

Unit 4 Wider
Professional Practice
and Development in
Education and
Training

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
TASK 1: Professional Skills and Attributes....................................................................................4
Produce a broad list of skills and attributes required of a good teacher.................................4
1.1 Define the concept of professionalism and dual professionalism in education and training
................................................................................................................................................5
1.2 Explain ways in which own professional values influence own practice in an area of
specialism...............................................................................................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
2.1 Explain ways in which social, political and economic factors influence education policy
................................................................................................................................................7
2.2 Analyse the impact of current educational policies on curriculum and practice in own area
of specialism...........................................................................................................................8
4.1 Key aspects of key policies, codes of practice and guidelines of an organization...........9
4.2 Assess how the curriculum practice in own specialized area get affected by the
organizational requirements and expectations......................................................................11
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................12
3.1 Explain the roles of stakeholders and external bodies in education and training...........12
3.2 Explain how being accountable to stakeholders and external bodies impacts on
organisations in education and training................................................................................13
3.3 Explain why it is important to work in partnership with employers and other stakeholders
in education and training......................................................................................................14
3.4 Analyse the impact of being accountable to stakeholders and external bodies on
curriculum design, delivery and assessment in own area of specialism...............................15
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................16
5.1 Analyse quality improvements and assurance arrangements of own organization........16
5.2 Explain function of self assessment and self evaluation and the quality cycle..............17
5.3 Evaluate learning program by considering the quality maintenance of own organization19

5.4) Discuss areas of improvements in the learning program by taking account of the
outcomes of evaluation.........................................................................................................19
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................21
REFERENCES:.............................................................................................................................22
Books and Journals...............................................................................................................22

INTRODUCTION
There is key role of professionalism in teaching so that work is managed in proper
manner. In today’s time there is need of managing the work by using best technology so that
better results are attained (Makovec, 2018). There is evaluation related to professionalism and
dual professionalism in order to teach the students effectively. There are several factors that
impacts the educational policy so that so that best curriculum is being provided to them. There is
need of knowing about the stakeholders and having good knowledge regarding their work this
helps to perform effectively. The policies and guidelines are important to teach the students and
to provide them best working. The impact of policies and guidelines on curriculum design is also
important part of this report. It is important for a teacher to check the quality of their
organisation. It will be done with the help of quality cycle and the suggestions are also given to
improvise the services. In the end, areas of improvement are analysed as it helps to enhance there
working and provide best to the students.
TASK 1: Professional Skills and Attributes
Produce a broad list of skills and attributes required of a good teacher
There is need of various skills that helps a teacher to teach in best suitable manner. There is
need of providing best education to the students so that they are able to enhance their skills and
knowledge (Becher, 2018). Being a teacher of UK history, there is need of having effective
critical evaluation skills so that all the pros and cons can be analysed. It is necessary for a teacher
to have proper memory so that they are able to remember the information and use the same to
study in effective manner. There is requirement of working in such a manner that the students are
able to get best knowledge that will help them.
One of the most important skills that a teacher must have is communication skills. This
helps them to communicate with the students and build relation with the students. The teacher
who has ability to communicate effectively has power of having effective relationship with them.
The teacher must have patience as all the students are different from one another and their ability
to learn is also different. It is seen that there is need of having better listening skills so that the
problems of the students can be heard and solution can be given. There is requirement of having
proper communication and listening skills so that best is being provided to the students. The
teacher must be creative and has ability to teach history in effective manner. This is also

necessary to enhance their learning experience in effective manner. The skills help the teachers
to provide better education to the students and manage their working in effective manner. The
use of all these skills makes the work easier and manage the working.
1.1 Define the concept of professionalism and dual professionalism in education and training
Professionalism can be understood as skills, knowledge, practices that are being followed
by teachers so that better teaching is provided to them. It is necessary to fulfil the job at best
level so that better results are attained. It is important for the teachers in today’s time to carry on
the work by following professional behaviour and teaching them in such a manner that they are
able to remember the information (Altrichter, 2020). It is seen that the work must be managed in
such a manner that there are no chances of errors. Being responsible is important for the teachers
and it is part of their professional job. There is need of carrying the work in such a manner that
students learn all the lessons in effective manner. Teaching is the responsibility of the teachers
and the professionalism is necessary to provide them best conditions. Being a teacher of UK
history, I adopt the professional practices so that best is provided to the students. It is necessary
for the teachers to provide best to the students and enhance their working conditions. By
following the professional practices, it becomes easy for the teacher to provide better education
to the students. Professionalism is central concept that assist the teachers to learn in effective
manner and enhance the skills and quality of the students. There is need of discipline in the class
and the same can be bought with the help of professionalism. It is necessary for the teacher to
maintain better learning conditions so that all the needs and wants of the students are satisfied.
Dual professionalism is the concept in which two teachers are present at a time and they
provide better facilities to the students. It is necessary to include subject teacher and a trainee
teacher who can collaborate enhance the skills and knowledge of the students. The use of dual
professionalism helps to enhance the conditions of the study environment so that they are able to
treat all the students in effective manner (Brown and Stokes, 2021). There is key role of
professionals as they provide detailed knowledge to the students that they can use. The trainee
teacher helps them to get engaged in the classroom and learn in effective manner. This helps to
enhance the working condition of the classroom and to teach best policies to the students. The
role of dual professionalism is enhancing in today’s time and helps to enhance the learning
experience of the learners. There is need of maintain effective culture in the classroom where all
the students are ready to learn and develop their skills and knowledge.

1.2 Explain ways in which own professional values influence own practice in an area of
specialism
Being a teacher, I understand that it is my responsibility to provide best teaching and
learning experience to the students. There is need of following the professional values to the
students so that all the work is carried on right time (Foley, ed., 2020). The values are of utmost
importance as they are necessary for the students to learn and use them in future. I like to have
disciplined classroom where all the students concentrate with each other. There is need of having
cooperation in the class and that is required to learn in effective manner. The professional values
being followed as follows:
Code of conduct: There are some codes and values that must be taken into consideration by
teachers so that there are proper learning conditions in the classroom. This helps the students to
learn in appropriate manner and keep the students better. This is necessary to provide better
learning experience for the students. It is seen that better decision regarding the career are taken.
Values: There is need of working with values and taking care of the performance of the
students. By valuing their performance, they are motivated to learn in effective manner. The
values are important for the teachers to teach and for the students to learn. It is necessary to work
in such a manner that bets is provided to the learners (Lyons, 2019). The dual professionalism
also includes values and helping others to get effective lessons and remember history.
Dignity: It can be understood as respect for humanity. There is need respecting all the
students and teachers so that there is dignity maintained. This is necessary to carry on the work
in best manner and get better outputs.
Truthfulness: It is necessary for teacher to be trustful. I always speak trust to the students
and assure that best is provided to them. This enhances respect and are able to enhance their
knowledge from the aspects being taught to them.
Fairness: It is necessary to be fair so that equality is promoted in the classroom. The
students will learn a lot about UK history and it is equally necessary to teach them about the
fairness and equality (Henry and Lewis, 2018). This practice is important to provide best
conditions to the students. It is necessary for the students to be fair and respect others.
All these ethical values are important and help to provide best learning experience. I am able
to communicate effectively with the students and provide them better conditions to learn. There
is key role of following all the practices and lessons so that he students are able to use the same

in future effectively. All this makes me good teacher and enhance my experience of teaching
with positivity. Being a professional teacher makes me confident and motivate me to teach the
students with best.
TASK 2
2.1 Explain ways in which social, political and economic factors influence education policy
There are several ways through which an educational institution gets impacted through
the market factors. Education is the vital practice that takes place in overall society and required
for every individual. Therefore, it is necessary to cover all the political and economic factors that
has major influence on the education system of UK. the discussion is presented below:
Social: It is all about the society preferences, their values and beliefs towards the
organisation. This shows that, in order to appropriately involve the factors that are concerned
towards the educational policy are the migrants and immigrates in the country. these people gain
less or high power instead of getting equal opportunities (Tashimov and Samandar, 2021). So the
UK education system is so lenient that does not much focus on taking education and consider it
leaving in the early age. So, the standards should be taken into consideration.
Political: These factors are all about the political interferences and other areas which are
influenced by the community, government legislations and economic growth in the country. The
UK educational policy is concerned as the most impact but has stable political environment. The
legislations do not much focus on the educational policy in order to attain growth and success in
the market. the Brexit is also one of the factor which shows impact on the education system by
putting some restrictions.
Economical: As per this factor, there is requirement of showing concern towards the
economic GDP. Growth and its welfare. Education sector is highly contributing in the
development of economy to raise the literacy rate. It shows that, there is involvement of
jurisdictions as well as society in making economic conditions. The labour markets, shortage of
skills has affected the economic growth of UK. For that instance, there is requirement of key
practices in order to higher the value of economy and creating best development opportunities.
Hence, the online education is regaining the educational market which assure that students will
not suffer with their education and maintain consistency.

2.2 Analyse the impact of current educational policies on curriculum and practice in own area of
specialism
There is various impact of educational policies which it has on designing the curriculum in
own practice of education and training. Curriculum is most important document which consist all
the rules, topics, time lines and standards for both learning and education. This shows that, the
students have clear standards for how to behave, when to learn what topic and take part in other
learning activities. Therefore, it is regarded as the prominent activity which has to assure the
relevant practice in own area of UK history (Aguliera and Nightengale-Lee, 2020). This shows
that, the curriculum practice needs to be developed by considering all those policies which have
great impact on organisational success. These policies are most vital to take decisions and carry
out the targets in a fruitful way. Being a teacher of UK history, I need to look for providing all
the facts and information related to historical point of view and keep the relevancy and accuracy
maintain.
As per the institutional requirements, I need to make lesson plans and scheme of works
which are useful documentation that will help me to attain curriculum goals. These documents
contain all the information regarding the daily practice of teaching activities, lessons covered,
resources used and standards maintain. The current policies include use of case studies,
assessments projects and prepare all the lesson plans for the betterment of education in a
systematic way. The curriculum practices area able to deliver the tight knowledge for the right
individuals and maintain inclusivity in the organisation. Also, other policies like equality, code
of conduct, accessibility and confidentiality will also need to be taken while teaching UK history.
These policies are also effective to conduct equal opportunities for all the learners that will lead
to enhance the positive environment of the classroom (Cheng And Et. Al., 2020). In the field of
UK history, all these policies have great impact in setting classroom etiquettes and
responsibilities of the students. It demonstrates that, the students will take equal opportunities in
a versatile manner to effectively learn about the UK history and improve their general
knowledge. It is effective in regulating all these policies for the existence of creating and
improving educational goals. In the own specialism, the university have provided much
classification of policies and standards which deliver information and facts to all the students. No
individual will feel neglected and unaware about the teachers’ guidance. Also, it is regarded as
the right behaviour and attitude towards others through which the organisation can generate

better growth and expansion in the educational field. In developing curriculum, all the effective
and attractive strategies are utilising in keeping it up to the point, generate educational benefits
and leads to long term learning. these curriculum practices can be done through creating learning
programmes and enhancing workplace targets. In order to response the curriculum issues and
factors, I need to go through with assistance of other teacher and trainers (Cubeles and Riu,
2018). It will help me to follow all the regulations that will not create any cause for designing the
curriculum responsibility. For that instance, I need to learn internal and external factors that are
responsible for the curriculum designing for own teaching areas.
4.1 Key aspects of key policies, codes of practice and guidelines of an organization
In context of educational institutions, there is requirement to follow certain basic codes of
practices. Here, it is important to adhere the rules, regulations appropriately so that the
operations can be managed appropriately. In this context, policies are the guidelines, norms
which are required to follow by each and every educational institution in order to promote the
well-being and equal development of the students. In UK, code of practices refers the
assessment, identification and necessary provisions made for the children who have special
education needs at specific time of their school and career. Through the policies and code of
practices, professional behavior of students is set in an efficient manner. By following such code
of practices, it is possible to maintain an equal and fair environment within the educational
institution. In this regard the major policies, codes of practices are mentioned below:
Health and safety at workplace Act, 1974: It is a legislation that governs health and
safety at workplace within UK. It includes ample of elements to protect the health of employees
and manage their safety at workplace. It is easy to implement the respective legislation as it is
not time consuming & costly. The respective act set the framework in order to manage the
people at workplace. Also, it defines the general duties of each employer and employees in the
section 2 and section 7 & 8 respectively. There are certain specific regulations for such workers
who are working within risky industries such as construction, chemical and more (Evans, 2019).
This act is enforced by Health & safety executive with assistance of local authorities. To
implement the health and safety act appropriately, there is requirement to ensure appropriate
training to the workforce, having adequate welfare provisions, safe work environment and more.
The Equality act, 2010: This act legally provides protection to the people from
discrimination within the society. In context of educational institution, it is imperative to treat

each & every student fairly. This act ensures to provide equal opportunities to all the people
regardless their caste, creed, race, gender and more (Zwozdiak-Myers, 2018). The act came in
force on 1st of October 2010. In educational setting, the respective act prevents the education
provider in discriminating the students basis on their disability and other factors. Basically,
equality act is important to provide equal opportunities to all the people to grow and attain
success in future.
The gender discrimination Act 1975: This is an important act in parliament of UK that
protects women and men from discrimination on the basis of gender and marital status. In
addition, the respective act is also concerned with harassment, employment & training,
provisions of goods & services etc. With an aim to bring inclusiveness in education, the
respective act has been amended by equality act 2010. This act is crucial to treat all the students
in equal manner regardless of their gender.
Children’s Act and Families Act 2014: This act is related to find out the children and
people of young age who are in need of any kind of special education. To get benefit of the
respective act, the individual needs to have disability from birth to age 25. In 2014 the children
act 1989 updated and incorporated in Families Act, 2014 which is based on a holistic approach
of education, child care, adoption and more. Here, the nine most important parts of the respective
act are adoption, family justice, childcare. Child welfare, children and young people with need of
special education, the children commissioner, statutory right to leave & pay, time off work and
right to get flexible working (Mulder, 2017). The main aim of this act is to protect the vulnerable
children in an efficient manner.
Data protection Act, 1988: Main aim of implementing data protection act in educational
institutions is to protect the privacy of individuals in an effective manner. This is important that
personal information of each and every individual is keep confidentially. It includes the way to
get the information, how one will share such information and use the information in future. Here,
personal information of each and everyone is private. Hence, they have right to keep the
information safe and secure. Data controller of each school needs to register with the information
commissioner’s office. If they get fail to do so, it is considered as a criminal offense.

4.2 Assess how the curriculum practice in own specialized area get affected by the organizational
requirements and expectations
In educational setting, there are certain requirements which need to fulfill in significant
manner. While designing the curriculum, it is imperative to follow the necessary organizational
requirements and expectations. Without fulfilling such requirements, it is quite complex to
prepare an appropriate curriculum. In this context, promoting the equality & diversity within the
curriculum of business university reflects the practice of government to promote equality &
diversity for an inclusive society. It is possible to prepare a diverse boardroom by promoting
equality as well as diversity in education setting (Saffady, 2021). In addition, it also helps in
terms of developing such a business culture by encouraging the women and people of different
ethnic backgrounds to facilitate entrepreneurship. To ensure the success of certain models, there
is requirements to have students from diversify backgrounds who belong from different genders
and backgrounds. In this context, several modules within the curriculum has been designed with
ethical alternative to theoretical approach.
Presently, the awareness regarding needs for university and staff members is growing
constantly. In this context, several staff from the authors university was part of a joint initiative
in a conference that was hosted by equality challenge Unit’s significantly. Along with this, equal
and fair opportunities and awareness regarding diversity competencies and equality awareness
has become a crucial part of University best practices. Equality and diversity is consider as an
important part of curriculum to ensure that the University standards are meet in an efficient
manner.
In context of the own specialized area, there is requirement of instructive learning and
programs. The requirements of such programs have been enhanced as a result if training,
network & political power (Bracq, Michinov and Jannin, 2019). Due to enhancement in number
of educational projects, instructors are scrutinizing for fail to commit significant insightfulness. It
is not recommended to drop the most loved subject when any issues occur in the instructive
module.
The requirements of stakeholders and expectations might differ on the basis of salience of
learning institution. Stakeholders of the educational institute have great influence on fund
allocation and uses. For this purpose, the university administration is required to address the
conflicts between expectations and actual outcomes received by the stakeholders. The main aim

of using new technology in the field of education is to facilitate convenience for students and
enhancing the overall learning experience of students who wish to learn in a different way. Due
to enhancing use of technology, new and advance techniques can be used by the students as well
as teachers to communicate with each-other, sharing assignment and research information
profoundly.
TASK 3
3.1 Explain the roles of stakeholders and external bodies in education and training
There are various roles and responsibilities which an educational institution has towards
the stakeholders. These are the people who generates values and configuration among an
institution. These people are always stand by towards the organisation and promote growth and
potential. Stakeholders are the people who always have positive sight towards the organisational
development. They prepare strategies and policies for the welfare of the organisation which
assures that, finances, infrastructure, technology and all the teaching resources are all involved in
the institution. They play an important role in being concerned towards the educational working.
They have right to be a part of decision and provide solutions which can improvise past mistakes
and the institution may enhance the roles and targets of their departments. The external parties
are involved in the execution of plans and policies of the institution (Ryan And Et. Al., 2022).
There can be other universities, charitable trusts, experts and professionals or government itself.
The education and training department have various advantage of involvement of stakeholders in
order to carry out welfare for the students. The more universities will create meaningful
strategies, look for infrastructure and secure learning environment, the more they could be able
gain large number of student across different locations. These external parties have direct and
indirect roles with the education departments as they seek all the information, records of students
and fee structure. So that, no institution will take advantage of freedom and the policies and
charges are nominal for a student. There is various role which stakeholders perform that are
showcased below:
Directors: these are the important personality who look for proper facilities within an
organisation. They direct each and every action to perform all the task in a systematic manner.

Staff: This includes all the teachers and professionals who teach students and understand
their learning needs.
Coordinators: They are also crucial personalities which takes place in the educational
institution. They help in coordinating and smooth functioning of the schools and universities.
Society and students: They are the important stakeholders who have high power in the
organisation growth and development (Cooc, 2019). These people can make changes in the
policies and learning preferences by putting their demand forward. They also have efforts and
contribution in institutional working through which the growth and expansion become possible
in the market.
Committee members: these people also play vital role in setting policies, strategies and
actions for the schools. They are professional bodies who decide what is wrong and what is right.
Investors: These people are the one who invest their money and time for the betterment of
the institution.
All these are the important criteria and roles which stakeholders plays in education and
training. In own area of UK history, the stakeholders help in deciding best curriculum
requirements and syllabus which can easily cover in the stipulated time period. So that, these
stakeholders are able to provide solutions and key strategies which will help in solving problems.
Therefore, in order to accomplish the target objectives, it enables great practices of working
through curriculum development (Hussin and Tamuri, 2019). It ensures that, the teaching aids,
resources and other equipment’s are presented for gibing better guidance to the students.
3.2 Explain how being accountable to stakeholders and external bodies impacts on organisations
in education and training
It has analysed that being accountable to the stakeholder are the part of organisational
responsibilities. It ensures that, the universities and schools are connected with the stakeholder’s
policies and strategies. Being accountable is necessary to the stakeholders to protect an unethical
breech from the institution. It requires that all the external bodies need to ensure the performance
of organisation. There is requirement of key potential issue which leads to emphasize on the
external bodies requirements as they must be remain happy and satisfied. Accountability refers to
the effective values such as loyalty, responsibility and honesty towards the organisation. For that
instance, being a teacher, I should be responsible for delivering each and every fact about student
growth and performance, availability of resources and the performance of other departments as

well. Therefore, it is necessary to keep stakeholders interest towards the schools and motivation
must be there for teachers and other staff. It is accountable for the requirement of the key
practices that external bodies will put forward by analysing the external environment of the
company. It shows that, accountability makes good relations and trust among the key people of
the organisation. So they have to be remain informed as well as listened to not miss any effective
details which can help in formulating strategies and policies. also, it is beneficial to have good
reputation of the educational sector to attain student attention and arrival. When stakeholders
remain happy and well informed and connected, they will promote the schools and universities to
the diversified sectors (Leonova And Et. Al., 2018). Therefore, it is required for the key
development practices that can be made through stakeholder’s participation. So, accountability
will result in improvements and coping up with challenges. It gains trust and configuration of the
roles and responsibilities which makes collaborative connections. Being a teacher of history, I
should have knowledge about sharing data and records of the learners in the particular subject to
the awarding bodies and educational institution. It ensures that, the educational institution keep
focus on learner’s grounds and by checking and controlling their performance, the schools will
look for the development of activities which ensure potential.
3.3 Explain why it is important to work in partnership with employers and other stakeholders in
education and training
Partnership is an agreement between two or more persons to manage a business. Employers and
stakeholders have an interest in the organisation. Employers provide resources to the
organisation which is quite necessary in the education and training. There should be an effective
partnership between employer and the management for smooth working of an organisation. The
experience of employers helps the teachers to motivate their students. Employers are quite
knowledgeable and their experience help a lot in solving the day to day issues. Effective
partnership between employers and the teachers is beneficial for the organisation as the
employers have expertise. Their expertise and experience help the employees to maximise their
potential and can teach well, giving the organisations better results. The teachers are accountable
to employer and other stakeholders. This improves the performance of teachers by maintaining
high level of quality. If the teachers are not accountable to anyone, it will affect their
productivity. The neglected and careless behaviour on the part of the teachers can highly affect
the resul6ts of the organisation.

By being a teacher of history, I personally think that there should be an effective
partnership between the employers and the teachers. It is very important to have financial
stability in an organisation which is provided by the employers, stakeholders and other external
bodies. It helps teachers in developing strategies and understanding the goals aspired by the
organisation in a better way (Thompson, 2021). Better understanding of goals is very important
for better performance and results. If the goal is not clear to me then how I will be able to
achieve it. Employers and stakeholders support the organisation in various ways. Employers and
stakeholders make an organisation stronger. The connections or network of my employer could
be beneficial for the organisation. Further, these connections may bring opportunities for the
students. The principal has a strong bond with one of the famous archaeologist. This helped me
to show some antique pieces practically to my students for their better understanding.
Furthermore, he also showed us some bones of mammals, he figured out in the mountains. All
this was quite interesting for the students. They were eager and curious to know and see the
historical items. This interest of the students helped me a lot to teach them the lesson for which
we went there. Developing right strategies is very important for fruitful results. The experience
of the stakeholders and employers help the whole staff in developing accurate strategies for their
respective subjects. Executing the adopted strategy is a task assigned to the teachers and I did it
successfully which can be seen in the performance of my students in the class tests. The day with
the archaeologist helped me a lot to make my students understand the chapter well. I am sure that
they will pass history subject with flying colours.
3.4 Analyse the impact of being accountable to stakeholders and external bodies on curriculum
design, delivery and assessment in own area of specialism
Stakeholders plays an important role in the entire educational system. External bodies and
stakeholders are crucial for the professional development of education because they have the
positive as well as negative impact which may affect the education system. Being a history
teacher, it is important for me to being accountable to stakeholders and external bodies on
curriculum design, delivery and assessment. We recognize (school board members) the
importance of collaboration working with the community, however they cannot reach for help
sometimes, because some of them do not know how to guide and help in the school educational
system. While some stakeholders are actively available for guide the school board member in

order to design the curriculum. They have the ability to take the educational system in the right
direction. I want to add some real and easiest ideas in the curriculum for students to study
history, by doing this may take interest in knowing the history of UK and add in their learnings.
Different external bodies can be stakeholders such as the Ministry of Health and Ministry
of education etc. Being a teacher of history it is important to me to give right knowledge to the
student about history, historical places and their key points. So in order to teach them effectively
I decide to take help to the external parties to know more about history (Xalilov, 2021). They
regulate and monitor the overall educational strategy and promote school health nationally. I
personally research the aims and objectives of history and other important facts. It will help the
students in the better understanding about the world as well as UK. It will also help students to
take better decisions for future. Stakeholders are interested in a solid educational program that
helps students become self- confident, smart, successful and determined. They need schools to
prepare future leaders and community members that will build a stronger community. So these
types of stakeholders will be helpful for better for design the curriculum and the educational
system.
Each time education leaders need to make decisions. They can choose any of these three
options which includes inaction, reaching out to concerned parties and relying on their own
opinions (Li and Flowerdew 2020). Relying on their own opinions have several benefits such as
further support from interested parties participating in the decision making, better outcome,
possibility to make significant decisions quickly and at a lower cost, improvement of trust and
respect for the educational leader and increasing awareness and obtaining more ideas.
TASK 4
5.1 Analyse quality improvements and assurance arrangements of own organization
In higher education, Reflective peer observation teaching has become a crucial part of
raising the quality of teacher standards and reflective practices within the education system. It is
a primary function that allows a person to reflect on their own practices to get necessary
feedbacks in order to make necessary improvements in the future period of time. POT is a crucial
way to enhance quality of learning and teaching within institution as well as developing the skills
of teacher to improve their working practices in significant manner (Armour and et. al., 2017).
Teacher who used to reflect on their practices are able to make necessary improvements in their
future practices. They can easily improve the overall quality of course for further betterment. In

this context, the author takes regular peer reviews from different peer staffs to adapt recent style
of delivering the lectures and also maintaining the quality of lectures significantly. In context of
the respective university, they have their quality improvement plan in line with other institutions
of higher education. They structure their quality improvement plan based on the requirements of
quality assurance agency along with statutory regulations of professional bodies like PSRB and
more. In addition, the quality audits are performed regularly along with quality assurance. It
determines the quality enhancement approach that is useful in terms of attaining a systematic
approach of quality enhancements in terms if curriculum delivery and assessment strategy in
teaching. For this purpose, quality enhancement approach is a set of processes that are well-
established that are designed in order to create ethos that encourages enhancement of learning
opportunities in significant manner. It is possible to maintain the quality improvements through
periodic reviews, annual monitoring and the report of external examiner to meet the expected
learning standards of the respective university. Basically, it includes the approach of curriculum
deliver that comes under six different heads such as delivering teaching and facilitating learning,
supporting and engaging students, scholarship and applied research, using technology enhanced
learning’s, curriculum design and more (Gunter and Mills, 2017). On the basis of these course
reviews, it put great impact on studies and assessment in order to fulfill quality assurance and
enhancement requirements of the respective university. In this context, assessment as well as
questionnaire of feedbacks are used to gather significant internal and external quantitative
feedbacks related to evaluation of students, module level performance and statistics for annual
reporting.
5.2 Explain function of self assessment and self evaluation and the quality cycle
Self assessment and evaluation is highly important in order to make improvements in the
overall quality of services that are being provided as part of professional growth with peer
coaching, observation along with focus improvement strategy to prepare a quality cycle (Pring,
2021). In current context, quality cycle is about a pre-planned sequence of different activities
performed by a group with an aim to improve the overall process in significant manner.
Here, quality cycle is likely to begin with
 Plan: It is the first step where the purpose and goals are identified. In this, theories are
structured to prepare an appropriate plan of action.

 Do: It is a significant step where the plan components are likely to implement
significantly.
 Check: Here, this step is follow as the third step on the overall process in which the
outcomes are likely to measure as part of the scheme in order to evaluate the validity of
plan to measure the progress & future success or the area that needs improvement (Darko
and Chan, 2018).
 Act: In the respective cycle, act step is last which is related to generate integrated
learning by the entire process. These all four steps can be repeated over the period of time
for facilitating continuous improvement.
In this context, I know the importance of self-assessment and evaluation. Being a history
teacher, I need to have sufficient knowledge regarding facts, ancient incidents and more. For this
purpose, I used to assess my performance regularly so that I can make necessary improvements
in future period of time. During the self assessment, I assess my strengths which make me better
from others. By using such strengths, I will be able to get success in my career as a teacher.
Further, I also have certain weak points that significantly affect my performance. After the self-
evaluation, I found that there is requirement to improve my weak areas to enrich in future career.
To improve my overall performance, I used to adopt a quality cycle where I have been set an aim
to become a good teacher and also taking necessary steps for this. Further, I used to assess my
performance based on pre-defined standards. After assessing the performance, I take necessary
corrective actions. This quality cycle is repeated to make continuous improvements my
performance for future betterment.

5.3 Evaluate learning program by considering the quality maintenance of own organization
The crucial element of the overall learning process within the respective educational
institute is formal and informal feedbacks. It is evident that different forms of feedback allow the
students to reflect on their learning practices and identify the necessary areas to make further
improvements. Apart from this, it also makes the students enable to assess their own
performance and capabilities. Feedback is important to improve the overall performance. For this
purpose, feedback is not only taken from academic staff but it is also taken from fellow students,
academic support tutors, mentors and more. Here, summative feedback refers as feedback on
learning. It helps to know what needs to be improved by focusing on strengths of students
(Turner, 2021). Main aim of designing feedback is to improve the overall performance of
students not only merely providing information where they have gone wrong. For making the
feedback effective, it needs to be a two way process so that students stay motivated throughout
the learning process.
However, all the students do not need to get same type of feedback. This needs to be
evaluated by the institution. Feedback needs to make a part of course design and it needs to be an
important part of formative assessment structures. It helps in ensuring that the course has been
structured in a proper way that will allow the students to reflect as well as use the feedback in an
effective manner. While designing the module, there is requirement to think regarding the
feedback as it is useful for development of students and sustainable academics.
5.4) Discuss areas of improvements in the learning program by taking account of the outcomes
of evaluation
For quality assurance system, student survey data has become an important part of higher
education. In this context, the undergraduate feedback survey has been collected by the national
student survey since 2008. On other side, the opinion of students is gathered by the NSS about
quality of courses. The main purpose of such assessment is to help students to choose a better
educational institution to enhance their overall learning experiences significantly. Further, the
outcomes of survey are published for the betterment of students (Gould and Taylor, 2017). In
this regard, nearly two million students have been given the feedback about ample of things.
Their opinion proved helpful in making necessary improvements in further education and raise
the quality standards in order to meet with the growing requirements of the students.

Retention refers to remaining the students within the higher education for a longer period
of time. For this purpose, a practice of benchmark retention is followed by the education institute
that is based upon key performance indicators of United Kingdom. In this regard, UK
performance indicators include a wide range of bodies such as universities & colleges,
government, UK higher education and other bodies (Davys and Beddoe, 2020). Here, data of
such universities are used as indicators and has relevance to students, employers and prospective
students. In order to cope up with the changes in government policies and quality standards,
opportunities of staff development in higher education is changing significantly. By adopting the
respective measures, it is possible to make necessary improvements in the future practice.

CONCLUSION
From the above-mentioned information, it is monitored that following professional
practice is important for teacher to make an enriching career in the field of education. With this,
they are able to manage the work practices in a professional manner. Presently, it is required to
use recent as well as updated techniques to perform the assigned work profoundly. Apart from
the professionalism, dual professionalism has also become an important concept in the current
period of time. Here, dual professionalism is about the presence of two teachers at a time and
they provide better facilities to the students. It is necessary to include subject teacher and a
trainee teacher who can collaborate enhance the skills and knowledge of the students. The use of
dual professionalism helps to enhance the conditions of the study environment so that they are
able to treat all the students in effective manner. While working as a teacher, it is imperative to
follow professional values, code of conducts and more to perform the duties of a teacher
profoundly. In this context, the professional values are being followed in terms of dignity,
truthfulness, fairness and more. It is monitored that educational policies are highly influenced by
social, political as well as economical factors. Apart from this, the education policy also put a
profound impact on the curriculum practice of own specialized area. Further, stakeholder and
other external bodies play an important role in education & training. Also, it is highly important
to work in partnership with other stakeholders as well as employers in education & training field.
Further, there is discussion regarding key aspects, code of practices and key policies of an
organization. It is found that organizational requirements put a great impact on the overall
curriculum of own specialized area. Further, there is requirement to follow quality assurance
arrangements profoundly along with the identifications to make necessary improvements in the
learning programs.

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