Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Education and Training

This article discusses the roles of teachers, importance of identifying and meeting individual needs, ways to adapt to teaching and learning plans, promoting equality and diversity, and assessments used in education and training. It also covers the effectiveness of teaching and learning approaches, communication and media communication methods, inclusive teaching and learning, and more.

UNIT 426 TEACHING
LEARNING AND
ASSESSMENT IN
EDUCATION AND
TRAINING

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Task A..............................................................................................................................................1
TASK B...........................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Importance to identify and meet the needs of individuals....................................................3
3.3 Planning helps in meeting individual needs..........................................................................3
3.4 Ways to adapt to teaching and learning plans.......................................................................3
4.1 Importance of appropriate behaviour....................................................................................4
4.2 Ways to promote equality and diversity................................................................................4
6.1 Assessments used in education and training.........................................................................4
Part D...............................................................................................................................................5
TASK E............................................................................................................................................7
Effectiveness of planning, delivering and assessing...................................................................7
Areas for improvement...............................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

Task A
Roles in education and training-
the responsibility of the teacher is to teach students according to the national curriculum
guidelines within the subject areas. They have to plan, prepare and deliver lessons to the
students. Teachers also plays major role in encouraging the students in studies and also to
participate in extra curricular activities (Mikkonen and et.al., 2017). Teachers inspire students
and develop their capability to learn. The role of teachers is not limited to teaching the lessons
only but it also plays vital role in developing professional, personal and social skills. Skills and
knowledge both go hand in hand. The main objective of teacher is to make the learner
understand that how to carry own development. With the help of teaching activities, teachers can
help learners in their personality development.
Relationships and boundaries between teaching and other professional roles-
it is important for the teacher to make personal and professional boundaries so that can
differentiate within colleagues and learners. While professional roles needed to set standards and
make sure that responsibilities are fulfilled (Heckman, Roselius and Smith, 2019). Professional
boundaries involves defected equipments and lack of support from the colleagues. Not able to
meet deadlines and reluctant students etc. role of professionals is limited to attain goal and role
of teachers are limited to teach the learners. Whereas the relationship is that both have to carry
their tasks in an effective manner so that goals can be achieved. Professionals has to meet their
organisation goal and teachers have to met their teaching goals. It is important for teachers and
professionals both to work together with their colleagues.
Role of the diagnostic assessment within individual learning goal-
initial and diagnostic assessment are the first choice and experience of the learners
among the company and will also impact their feelings. Initial assessment starts with building
relationships with learner and also know them. If the experience which is gain by the learner is
positive and involving, then this will make the environment in which negotiation can be done by
the learners and also take duty in their learning process (Calvin-Naylor and et.al., 2017). In order
to achieve individual learning goals it important to use individual learning plans in which self
assessment can be done in order to know the strengths and weaknesses of the learners.
Assessment tools can also be used in fulfilling the objective and gaining numeracy skills. Tools
are also useful in identifying learning difficulties and occupational skills. By conducting
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interviews also learning related goals can be achieved. As through interview, an individual will
be able to collect data and that will enhance their knowledge.
Meeting learners needs-
teachers play vital role in meeting the needs of the learners by providing them study
support and study materials. Learner require help of teacher in studying and pass the
examination. Teachers does not only teach but also provide career related guidance. They also
contribute in the job searching in order to build strong career. By providing counselling to the
students, teachers helps them in showing and following the right path. There are career options
available in the market, so it is very important to choose right career option. Assessor also guide
their students in meeting the particular learning needs. This is the most important need and only
teachers can fulfil it. Sometimes teachers also provide financial advice to the students because it
is very important and to able to manage finances properly, an individual requires financial
advice.
Legislation and code of practice in regards of own role and responsibilities-
health and safety act 1974: it is the responsibility of teachers to make sure that health and
safety of their learners are properly maintained (Latchem, 2017). Students will not join such
institution in which their health and safety are not taken care of. It is the duty of teachers to
provide safe learning environment.
Data protection act 2018: as per this act, teachers are not allowed to share confidential
information of their learner with any one without the permission of their guardian. If they do so
then it will be considered as an offence. As personal data of the students which consists of their
contact details or any other detail can affect the reputation of the students if get leaked.
Teachers should have always follow code of practices and if they are following code of practice
then they will not discriminate with any students on the basis of age, gender, religion, caste,
race, color etc. code of practice guide teachers of how they can become good teacher.
Equality act 2010: this act says that every individual is equal and must not be discriminated on
any of the basis.
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TASK B
2.1 Importance to identify and meet the needs of individuals
Every teacher must understand the way learners will acquire the knowledge. The main
reasons why understanding these needs is important are:
Attaining quality: Understanding the needs helps in identifying their weakness and to
apply different measures that will the learners to overcome such weak points. This will
challenge the learner to do better and gain quality within learning and delivery the best
outcomes.
Developing talents: Young learners will undergo the process of understanding their
skills and the teachers will help these certain learners exhibit that particular skill or talent. It is
important to nurture them and have essential support to make them grow (Guerrero-Roldán, and
Noguera, 2018). They will set the targets in the way of attaining these goals and setting up
milestones to acquire the talent.
Creating interest: When the teacher will teach in the way that will fulfil the needs and
expectations of the students, it will make them more attentive within the class and lesson and
will learn with their complete interest. When the student feel supported, they will develop rather
than losing interest within learning.
3.3 Planning helps in meeting individual needs
Identifying the needs of individual student is important in boosting the morale and to
encourage the students towards learning. Planning provides them with opportunity to have
progress towards learning and providing the students with specific materials that is important to
use. It allows having the simplest use of learning and making it more accessible for learners and
teachers. Planning will help in designing the learning lessons that will based on the learning
styles for each individual (Chng, and Lund, 2018). This will allow differentiation. Moreover, the
lesson will be inclusive as planning will helps in setting clear standards for the learners
behaviours and will allow dealing with any misbehave actions in a very sensitive way.
3.4 Ways to adapt to teaching and learning plans
Teaching and learning plans will help the students to have a proper understanding about
the learning outcomes in form of their knowledge and skills possessed. It is about planning what
is to be taught to the students. These plans are adapted in a way that will fulfil the needs of the
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students with the help of certain activities. Activities will make them feel engaged with another
other and learn in proper way (Tsiripidis and et.al., 2018). Engaging with other students will
help them gain knowledge from various sources. Providing them different resources such as
certain props will act a visual learning aid and makes them learn in more practical format.
Lastly, assessment helps in having the verifying the knowledge gained by the students and the
points in which they lack in. Assessment will judge the students based on their amount of
knowledge gained from the lesson.
4.1 Importance of appropriate behaviour
Encouraging appropriate behaviour within classroom is about setting some ground rules
and support the learning process. It promotes well- being and safety to all whereas, exhibiting
inappropriate behaviour will make many individuals suffer. Respecting other will avoid the case
of offending any individual and developing good relation with them. Students at the early stage
will learn about what is right and wrong (Afanasieva, Rodionov and Vasilev, 2018). It is
important to create such awareness as the student will understand their boundaries and limits in
treating others. This will make them better individuals in the future. It will ensure every one to
be treated in fair way regardless of their gender, race and family background. Students will learn
to respect these differences and creating an inclusive atmosphere.
4.2 Ways to promote equality and diversity
Equality and diversity are the ways of creating a multiculturalism environment. It
promotes the acceptance of differences among each individual. Promoting this is important for
the teachers and there are several ways to do so. Teachers must begin with setting a clear set of
rules on how each individual must be treated. They must punish the students with any negative
attitudes so that they can learn it is wrong. Teachers must set good examples for the students by
treating all the staff with respect and equality while makings sure that each students is having
proper access to equal opportunity. Make the students form groups with students from different
culture. This way, they can learn about different cultures and mingle in the process.
6.1 Assessments used in education and training
Assessment is related to different activities that will help the students to learn. Each
assessment is important and exhibits different benefits. Different types of assessment includes:
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Formative assessment: These are carried throughout the duration of the project and act
as an aid for learning. It includes providing feedback on the work done by the students before
the actual grading process (Elmahdi, Al-Hattami and Fawzi, 2018). It also involves taking
standardised tests and submitting the draft work. The purpose of such assessment is to check if
the students will understand the instructions before the actual submission.
Summative assessment: These taken place during the end time of project. It is useful in
assigning the course grade and for the purpose of evaluation. These assessments will summarise
the learning gained by the students and to determine if the students learned the subject well
enough (Panadero, Andrade, and Brookhart, 2018). Summative assessment is helpful in
assessing if the student has failed or passed in the class or within that particular subject.
Diagnostic assessment:It is related to the difficulties faced by the students at the end of
the learning process.
Initial assessment: Process of determining the learning needs of the students ad enabling
the students to make a lesson plan. Moreover, it determines the starting point for the learning
session.
Part D
Effectiveness of the teaching and learning approaches
it is very important to select the learning approaches in order to meet the individual
learning needs because needs of every learner is different so teacher has to find out that by using
which learning style they will be able to fulfil learning goals of their learner. As some students
understand the lesson when, teachers use images and videos in their learning practice. As they
feels that when they visualise things then it enhances their learning experience. In order to meet
the learning needs, assessor should have motivate their students. It is proved that motivation is
the best way to fulfil learning needs (Shaikh, Deraj and Sahito, 2019). As when teacher will
motivate students then it will enhance their focus towards learning. Teacher have to understand
that they cannot use same learning style to teach the students. With the time they also have to
update their learning styles or has to change them with the generation. It is not necessary that the
learning style which teachers have used in the previous batch will be helpful for current batch of
students also.
Advantages and disadvantages of communication and media communication methods-
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benefits of verbal communication- this method will help to know each other properly. It also
provide personal touch and helpful in getting instant feedbacks form the teacher. It is more
accurate as compared to different communication method.
Drawbacks of verbal communication: this method will not helps in keeping records. When
the message is not clearly delivered by the speaker than it can cause confusion. It consumes
more time and also for this method effective listener is required.
benefits of written communication: through this method it is easy to keep records. Message
also gets delivered easily and also gets ample time to read and understand the message properly.
Drawbacks of written communication: it is method which is costly and also involves more
paper work. Giving feedback in this method is also time consuming and difficult (Navghare,
2018).
benefits of ICT: if teacher will use information technology in their teaching practice then it will
be helpful in enhancing their teaching practice and also students will understand the lessons
quickly and easily. Using technology will also fast the speed of learning process.
Drawbacks of ICT: when teaching is done by using information technology it can costs to the
institution. As adopting technology is always expensive.
benefits of Video: while teaching through video, it will become easy to express because
students will understand lot of things with the body language and expressions of their teacher.
While doing video chats there are lot of options which allow easy learning development like
teacher can share files etc.
Drawbacks of Video: strong internet connection and computer system is required (Khan, Lu
and Lau, 2017).
Importance of resources and assessment method in meeting learning needs-
if teachers want to meet the learning goals of the students then they require various
resources and equipments which they can use in their learning practice. As there are diverse
range of students which assessor have to handle. So that is why they require various assessment
tools for the same. Teachers while teaching should have follow ethical consideration and never
discriminate among students while teaching. Assessment method also involve observation. If
teacher will observe students then they will come to know that what is understood by them.
Ways of inclusive teaching and learning-
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minimum core means every assessor should have knowledge of the language, numeracy
and various ICT skills. Minimum core skills are used by the teachers to improve their teaching
practice. In the planning process it is important to know about the learning requirements of the
learner so that plan can be made and improvements can be made in core skills. Teacher has to
make sure about the language they are using (van Atteveldt and Peng, 2018). It must be clear
and proper. While delivering the core skills, it is important to use different methods of teaching
like making poster, power point presentation, tables and images, group discussion etc. while
delivering lessons it is important to use various teaching methods. At the assessing stage,
implementation of core skills takes place. Teachers provide tasks to the students which can be
reading task, written task, finding information etc. with the implementation of the teaching
methods, teachers can analyse needs of the learners.
TASK E
Effectiveness of planning, delivering and assessing
Strengths of planning inclusive teaching and
learning taking account of the views of learners
and others.
 It helped the students in providing
mentor support that will help them
guiding them towards the right
direction.
 This learning session led to exploring of
different modes of delivering the
outcomes from the students. After
having the understanding the individual
needs it became easy to implement
different modes within the learning
process such as visualisation, writing
notes and so on.
Weaknesses of planning inclusive teaching
and learning taking account of the views of
learners and others
 Students were not able to learn and
develop team working skills at this
stage as it was very overwhelming for
them to work and manage work with
so many individuals. It was hard for
some to work with the one another as
each one of them follows a different
learning style and working pattern.
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Strengths of delivery inclusive teaching and
learning taking account of the views of learners
and others.
 Observation skills were used to provide
feedback for own teaching. Observation
helped in understanding the points that I
work well in whereas the lacking points.
 I was good at explaining the theory
topics to the students.
 Training was provided to the teachers
that helped in understanding different
rules and regulations to be following
within the learning sessions and also to
understand the course for the students.
Weaknesses of delivery inclusive teaching and
learning taking account of the views of
learners and others.
 There was work shadowing from the
teachers from the teachers having
more experience in this subject matter.
They have more knowledge and thus,
explained many better ways to handle
the students and delivery the learning
lesson to them.
Strengths of assessment inclusive teaching and
learning taking account of the views of learners
and others.
 Assessment helped in determining the
qualifications for each student and their
level of understanding and needs.
 E- portfolio helps in providing a
systematic and organised approach
rather than having everything on paper.
The information from the e- portfolios
can be access at any point of time and
just requires a proper internet
connection.
Weaknesses of assessment inclusive teaching
and learning taking account of the views of
learners and others.
 Online approach towards assessing the
students have made developed
problems for the teachers not having a
well hand towards using technology.
This process becomes difficult as there
are many doubts while using online
platforms and there is no one to clarify
these doubts.
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Areas for improvement
Activity When Progress
Team- working skills During group projects Team working skills are important
for every individual as they have to
work with different individual.
Team working skills helped in
understanding the learning as well
as working approach for each
individual. It helped in forming a
proper coordination and defining
roles and responsibilities for each
member of the team. This also
helped in avoiding any conflicts
arising during team work.
Technical skills Simultaneously with the
work
Understanding the technology is
very important for today's digital
era. These skills helped me in
understanding the benefits of
learning the same. I learned to
make use of various technological
advancements within my work that
helped to make my work very
efficient. I can now organise my
work on online platforms and work
in the modern ways.
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