Learning and Development Problems in School Lunchtime Supervisors

This case study investigates the learning and development problems experienced by school lunchtime supervisors during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the causes and potential implications of these problems and discusses the value of effective training programs for employees. The study also proposes strategies to improve the performance of school lunchtime supervisors.

Training and Learning Problems School
Lunchtime Supervisors
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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Discuss about the learning and development problem in context of covid-19............................3
Explain the value of effective training development programme for employees........................4
Examine the causes and potential implications of problem.........................................................5
Explain how the proposal design could improve the performance of school lunchtime
supervisors...................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
This case study will investigate about the learning & development problem experienced by
school lunchtime supervisors. It will be consider the possible causes and implications of problem
that will identified. This documentation will examine the relationship between HRM or HRD
implemented in case study on the basis of performance of school lunchtime supervisors.
Moreover, it will describe about the innovative recommendations to address issues or problem,
including how it would monitor the implementation.
TASK
Discuss about the learning and development problem in context of covid-19.
It is one of the greatest threats in our lifetime to global education. As March 2020, the
covidd-19 is usually causing more than 1.6 billion of children, youth to be out of education or
school in 161 different countries. Sometimes, this is close to 80% of entire world enrolled
children. Nowadays, it has been already experiencing a global crisis, which may increase a lot of
problem for student in regards of learning and development within schools. Therefore, children’s
are not learning actual fundamental skills needed for life (Brotman, 2020). On the basis of
research, it has been examined that age of 10 children who cannot read and understand before the
outbreak started. Due to Covid-19, it has been become potential to worsen these result or
outcome even more if it do not act as fast.
In context of learning and development, it may start the school year late and also
interrupting it completely because it is directly disrupts the lives of many children, teachers as
well as parents. For a number of very remote students in Australia, which may prefer to focus on
the distance education in regarded as the most effective means of providing the better education
of student. In this way, Lunchtime supervisor may be experienced a problem because they were
not maintain a proper relation to distance from physical school. In this mode of schooling,
supervisor send the student schoolwork to complete their work at home. This kind of role is
basically undertaken by parents, with this is one of the toughest things. Despite, this is essential
aspect of their role, practices of supervisors and challenges this role bring them.
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The supervisor will be creating a routine so that their children could work properly and
then provide the guidance of their students. In lunch time, supervisor may be tried to adjust the
school hours, with set specific time for school during covid-19. But supervisor will be facing a
certain kind of challenges in regards of learning and development (Calamlam and Mokshein,
2020). it is difficult to organise or create a separate schoolroom, lunch break space. It is quite
challenging to maintain a proper social distancing between every children’s. At the time, lunch-
time supervisor will be experienced the problem in learning and development. Furthermore,
Supervisors will start to engage with every children and assists them to follow a certain rules and
regulation in the school premises.
In particular, it is an essential for establishing a relationship with distance education
teacher, other students. From exploring the challenges encountered or experienced by supervisor.
Main issue of supervisors was feeling uncertainty at the time lunch break in regards of social
distancing. It is not sure about the expectation of them in their role and felt that they lacked
knowledge and experience to undertake the role.
Explain the value of effective training development programme for employees.
The effective training and development program can help employee to perform a better as
they become more skilled in their jobs. It is able to complete their work quickly manner.
Training program provide the great opportunity for supervisor and other teacher who are able to
improve their skill and expand their knowledge base. Sometimes, it is increasing their efficiency
and productivity at workplace (Napano, Gayagay and Tuazon, 2021). During Covid-19, Human
resource management of educational institution is focused on the better safety measurement so
that they can provide training session for teacher, supervisor so that they can easily handle any
kind of situation or condition at the time of pandemic. Here, are a few way to examine the
effectiveness of training development program for employees.
Improve on weakness- usually, employees may find the specific areas in their job that
they will try to improve. Training program will help for employee to address own weakness and
then applied capability in work at getting better at them. As the knowledge, it will be increases,
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and also remove any weak links in the educational system. For Example- teacher, supervisor can
use their own knowledge from training to handle multiple task in covid-19. It became less
dependent on other to design a proper learning schedule of student’s in lunch time and so on.
Employee can learn faster- through effective training session, it can provide the direction
of employee where they can learn something new and supervisor adopt the new policies or
procedures at the time of covid-19. If in case, employees can learn something trial and error, a lot
of time will be wasted in context of learning or development. Sometimes, it may causes delay in
their work.
Additionally HRM should be used the “Training Needs Analysis (TNA) Framework and
theory which may supports for running the certain procedures. In this way, it can easily establish
a continuing processional development of lunchtime supervisor. By using TNA framework,
Supervisor seek to determine the gap between knowledge and skills of individual and need for
further training (Paige, Lambert and Geeson, 2020). Ultimately, HRM reveled about the needs
for lunchtime supervisor, which require for addressing in some way. On the basis of theory, each
and every employee can easily identify the performance gap, and always filled with training. It
exists when people does not know how to handle the critical situation of safety and schedule time
of lunch for children’s in school. This can happen due to the lack of skill or knowledge, but it
may be handled when lunchtime supervisor can improve their performance through training
session. It is always try to eliminate the learning and development problem during covid-19.
Examine the causes and potential implications of problem
As a school lunchtime supervisor, it will make sure that every children become safe and
well behaved during lunch time. This is because of covid-19 which is directly affecting the
health condition. It could be supervising the children to maintain a proper social-distancing at the
time of eating meals.
As above discussion, it has been identified that problem face by lunch-time supervisors in
learning and development, where they were not properly schedule time hours, unstructured
learning process. The primary causes of these kind of problem is lack a knowledge or skill in
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order to handle the condition or situation. It is one of the most common causes of problem
related learning and development whereas lunch-time supervisor experiences. The potential
implication of problem, which means that encouraging the employees to improve their skills and
gain more knowledge to control the situation of covid-19.
On the basis of problem, it has been examined the causes which may directly establish a
relationship with performance of lunch-time supervisor. This is because they are only who can
analyse the current situation and then implicate problem in proper manner (Shek, 2021 Adams
and Todd, 2020). Otherwise, it may have affecting the children’s, teachers and other staff
members, those are trying to ignore current situation of covid-19. Especially among children at
the time of lunch break etc. it may have a lot of chances to increase a problem for supervisors.
Therefore, supervisor will understand the problem and finding causes, trying to eliminate
within education institution. It might use a proper system for discipline such as handling out. On
the basis of experience, Supervisor know about the problem at the end of lunch-time. It is clear
that covid-19 pandemic has been disrupted on the entire educational system that many assets was
losing its own relevance.
Explain how the proposal design could improve the performance of school lunchtime
supervisors.
Human resource management can be optimised the use of essential resources in order to
improve the performance of school lunch-time supervisors. It has been already identified that
lunchtime supervisor to engage more with children in school campus.
Therefore, it has been designed an effective proposal design that help for supporting the
school lunchtime supervisor, where they can easily improve their performance at the time of
lunch-break (Shek, 2021 Adams and Todd, 2020). HRM/HRD can be established a relationship
with different lunchtime supervisor and then providing the better training through effective
strategies. So as, they can easily improve their performance.
Strategy-1:- Establish a clear focus and strategic framework for training, where they can
easily represent core belief, effective practices. With the help of this strategy, lunch-time
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supervisor will be identifying the set expectations of children safety measurement, engage with
children’s to provide the better guidance. Therefore, this will help to lunchtime supervisor, where
they could improve own understanding and enhance their performance or efficiency.
Strategy-2 organise and engage with school board in order to identify the actual specific
need or requirement. This type of strategy can be utilised by school lunchtime supervisor and
then improving their coordination with school board. In order to participate into important
decision of lunch-time break during covid-19. Therefore, it is becoming a great opportunity for
lunchtime supervisor to improve their ability and performance so that they can easily take
important decision in regards of safety, protection etc.
Strategy:-4 training related to the heavily in instruction-related professional learning for
principles. This type of strategy is supports for lunchtime supervisors where they can easily
improve their ability or performance in context of mentoring or induction (Toquero, 2020). It is
an important aspect for enhancing the ability of lunchtime supervisors, identify their roles and
establish a better coordination with children during Lunch-break.
Innovative recommendations to address issues
An innovative recommendation is all about the way in which improving the overall
learning and development aspect in the school. Nowadays, covid-19 is one of the major issue so
that it is become very challenging for lunch time supervisor to manage or control the
performance (Shek, 2021 Adams and Todd, 2020). That’s why, it should be used the suitable
innovative recommendation in learning and development.
 Lunchtime supervisor facing a challenge of maintain productivity and motivation for
other staff members. Therefore, it can help to identify the current security measurement
among children’s during lunchtime.
 It might have establish a good relationship with children Where, encouraging to maintain
a proper social distancing. So as, supervisor can examine any kind of issue in regard of
social distancing and eating foods or exchange etc.
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 The group of supervisor is likeminded professionals who come together to share their
knowledge and implement best practise in select area or place. Through this way, it is
always encouraging the children’s to engage with lunch time supervisor, taking turn in
the learning process.
 During lunchtime, every supervisor will have something to offer a better safety aspect in
which encouraging the children to protect themselves.
On the basis of innovative recommendations to monitor or track the activities of every children’s
by lunchtime supervisor. As per suggested recommendations, it is an essential aspect for
supervisors where they can easily improve their own performance and also engage with other
members. in this way, it would be created dynamic environment where everyone can aware
about the current critical situation or condition while measuring all kind of safety parameters in
proper manner.
CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it has been concluded that investigate on the learning &
development problem experienced by school lunchtime supervisors. It can be focused on identify
the certain kind of possible causes and implications of problems identified. In this report, it has
been discussed about the training analysis framework that help for lunch-time supervisor to
improve their overall performance and identify certain kind of gaps. Furthermore, it has been
summarised about the better intervention approach in order to develop more understanding
towards current scenario. On the basis of analysis, it has been discussed about the relationship
between HRM or HRD implemented and also identify the actual performance of school
lunchtime supervisors. Moreover, it can be suggesting the appropriate innovative
recommendations to address issues or problem, including how it would monitor the
implementation.
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