Pearson BTEC Level 5 DET13AB29TF: Resources in Education Report

This report, submitted as part of a Pearson BTEC Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training, analyzes the development, use, and organization of resources in a specialist area. It begins by defining resources, exploring their purpose in teaching and learning, and evaluating the effectiveness of resources such as the internet, books, and PowerPoint slides. The report then delves into the principles of designing resources, including safety, age appropriateness, usability, and Bloom's Taxonomy. It examines Taba and Tyler's theories, considering diversity, learning styles, and needs. The report also reviews legal requirements and responsibilities related to resource development and use, covering copyright, health and safety, and equality. Finally, it mentions sources of resource development and evaluates the resources' quality. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the practical application of resources in an educational setting.

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Assignment Code: DET13AB29TF
Programme: Pearson BTEC Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training
Unit Number & Title: Unit: 13 Developing, Using and Organising Resources in a Specialist
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Unit Reference number: H/505/1090 QCF Level: 5 Credit Value: 15
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Table of Contents
Define resources 1
Effectiveness of the resources2
Principles of designing resources 3
Taba,tyler theories 4
Legal requirements and responsibilities 5
Sources of resource and development6
Emerging technologies 7
How I have used the resources in
Resource adaptation 8
Reflection 9

TASK A: Define resources with reference.
Why are we using resources/ what is the purpose of resources
Definition of resources
It involves learning and teaching material such as texts, videos and various software’s. This form
an important aspect of student’s education as it help learners to meet learning demands. These
resources are normally defined by provincial or existing local school curriculum (Manouselis, et
al, 2011,p. 387).Before being used in classroom setting, resources should be well analyzed,
assessed and approved by the local and provincial officials. They are mainly used to increase
student’s achievement learning as they support students learning. Therefore, they provide a
source for improved learning experience for learners (Anshari,Alas,and Guan 2016,p.67 They
normally meet the students learning styles, aspirations, expectations, personality value, capability
and interests. They also help in lesson structure providing a valuable routine in delivery of
instruction by teachers.
Learning resources
Distinct types of learning resources have been utilized over the years in the learning process in
order for students to actively practice their knowledge and hence promote their learning skills in
a progressive manner. The student’s level of understanding and those particular learning points
that they find problematic can be well evaluated by issuance of learning materials. In addition,
those learners withy learning challenges can be issued with distinct activities and additional help
by providing them with key resources.

Additional explanation that have not be issued during the class can be given to learners in
detailed form through the resources. Conversely, they also play a significant role in bias
avoidance and maximize students focus in the learning process.
Beetham and Sharpe (2013) shows that clear understanding of effective learning resources is
important since it can be utilized in maximum teaching operations.
TASK B: How effective is the resources you use like internet, books, PowerPoint slides.
Identify some of the resources you use in your subject area. (ICT)
Write at least three resources and how it help in teaching and learning
Internet have been effectively used for digital literacy (Bradle & Putnick 2012,p.76). The key
skills of student being able to search, discern and reproduce information in order to learn and
being taught by educators has become a critical focus for curriculum frameworks. In many
schools digital literacy has been designed through introduction of ICT internet in schools for
learning. Some of these technologies include;
Internet
Offering tablets and computers. It involves a versatile resource for learning where effective
application have been incorporated to ensure improvement of students thinking skills and
creativity ability. This improves their expression and understanding.
According to Dabbagh and Kitsantas (2012) E-readers through tablets. In ICT subject these
electronic devices which can hold books in a digital manner have been used to improve skills and
positive response for independent learning and studies. They are effective since they are
portable, reliable, and adaptable and has the capability of definition of unknown words.
Books
Effectiveness of books
1. E-books and E-journals • An E-Book is an electronic variant of a customary print book
that can be perused by utilizing a PC or by utilizing an eBook readers. • Electronic diaries,
otherwise called e-diaries, e-diaries, and electronic serials, are academic diaries or scholarly
magazines that can be gotten to by means of electronic transmission.it Fosters academic
advancement and importance that abstains from educating from the reading material.. Books and

diaries have discovered their way to the work areas of understudies and research researchers.
Thanks to the creation of electronic assets, simple, snappy and whenever access to books and
diaries have made a compelling learning.
PowerPoint;
It usually increase visual impact
It also ensures student focus
They are effective in provision of annotations and highlights.
It is also critical on improvement of curriculum and interdiscipinarity
TASK C: There are principles we need to follow while designing resources e.g. Safety, age,
ability to use the resources, taxonomy
Resource design refers to the procedure or activity of designing various series of units of
learning, activities and learning envirobmnet.it is more of a pedagogical description or scenario
created to enhance education (Dagenais and Robillard 2012,p.47). Its purpose is to assist a long
term learning goal or solve learning challenges in the classroom environment. It involves focus
in learning and designing decisions
The principles of resource design are divided into two interrelated groups
Core pedagogical principles. These usually help in underpinning an effective learning and
teaching perspective and draws from key hypothesis and accepted learning practice
Core design principles. These typically deal with issues like, actual design, accessibility and
interoperability of the material. Some of the principles of resource design used include safety,
age, ability to use resources and taxonomy.
Safety
Safety principle is also important.it is evident that Resource material should be designed in a way
that it does not harm the student’s safety. They should be maintained first in the design to avoid
risks and hazards that are associated with it.
Age

Resource designers focus on the age of the students in planning for the material and contents.
Resource designed for children learning for example the age of 3-7 are often simple and easy to
understand while those of senior students are often detailed and complex.
Ability to use
This is a key resource which focuses on the ability of the student to use. Some students have less
knowledge and the designer must consider this aspect in making the resource easy to understand
Taxonomy
Blooms taxonomy as a key principle in resource design helps students to determine what level of
learning he/she is expected to achieve with the learning resources designed or program
It considers the following cognitive levels of students
Complexity knowledge
Comprehension, application and analysis
Synthesis and devaluation
According to (Dalgarno and Lee (2010) these helps the designer to identify the existing stimulus
awareness of the student, willingness to learn or the expected attention the student will pay to the
learning resource.
TASK D: TABA, TYLER THEORIES: Think about the experience of learning to include
everyone E.g Diversity, learning style, learning needs, level of understanding of learners,
what class you teach.
Diversity
Every individual like students, educators and society as a whole is diverse. It ensures a rapidly
changing; earning environment in the classroom (Das, 2011,p.15). Students are from different
cultures, economic and ethnic backgrounds speaking different languages. The cultural diversity

ensures the improvement and use of diverse teaching strategies which have been designed to be
inclusive and respond to each student’s needs.
Learning styles
Blended learning. This strategy utilized is important for educators ensuring a flexible curriculum.
This style relies on technological advancement with instructions and education being created
online and classroom in traditional approach (Downes 2012,p.47).
UDL
This method usually tend to incorporate student centered and various intelligence from
Universal Design for learning(UDL) As seen by Horn and Little (2010) this style is significant
since it present various resources so as to actively engage or become inclusive for each student
including those students who have special needs or the disabled. It normally utilizes the key
components of multiple intelligence in order to make sure that a learner is learning in the manner
that bets incorporates their personal values, attitudes and style.
It also ensures inclusivity and creation of a culture of student acceptance in the prevailing class
environment (Hwang and Chang 2011,p.103).Students are able to appreciate each other and
acknowledge their personal strength no matter the problems being encountered.
Learning needs
Keeps tabs on understudies' development and enables youngsters to progress through
individualized learning ways. This safeguards total inclusion of the required abilities and ideas to
guarantee achievement. Guardians can utilize Time4Learning for every one of their youngsters
from preschool through secondary school. Guardians like Time4Learning in light of the fact that
it gives a far reaching instructive arrangement that incorporates language expressions and math,
complete exercise plans and exercises with appraisals and online materials and printable
worksheets, making learning fun and self-teaching a compelling and fruitful instructive option.
• Personality designs center around consideration, feeling, and qualities. Understanding
these distinctions enables you to anticipate the manner in which your tyke may respond and feel
about various circumstances.

• According Duval (2012) Social collaborations take a gander at likely dispositions,
propensities, and methodologies students may take toward their work and how they connect with
others when they learn. Students can be free, reliant, community, focused, member or avoidant.
Taba theory
Taba's commitment to the investigation was assessment of social affectability, which was
identified with the general objective of planning understudies for powerful fair support. Utilizing
different methods for assessment that included gathering exercises, casual discussions, episodic
records, perusing records, and book surveys, Taba dug under the surfaces of social marvels to
recognize the frames of mind and issues in understudies' public activity that would add to a
specific wonders.As stated by Goldie (2016) She handled a testing region of social investigations
educational modules, the estimation of frames of mind about race, class, and ethnicity and in the
meantime given legitimate choices to paper and pencil evaluation.
Taba's procedures for urging students to think center around the educator as the middle person as
opposed to the instructor as the speaker (Jolliffe,Ritter and Stevens 2012,p.89). While using the
Taba approach, the instructor drives the exchange however urges the understudies to impart their
insights and to relate their own plans to their friends' thoughts. The educator must not pass
judgment on the understudies by their answers and can neither concur nor can't help
contradicting their reaction
Tyler’s theory
This model ensures the following
It ensures determination of the school key objectives in learning experiences
It also identify the education and instructional experiences that are often related to aims
It ensures organization of the learning experiences
It also ensures evaluation of aims
Review legal requirements and responsibilities relating to the development and use
of resources and its implications on learning and students
Some of the existing laws that govern this particular learning aspects include the following;

Copyright design and patents act of year 1988
 Health and safety work act of year 1974
 Health and safety regulations of year 19992
 Riddor 1995.
 Equalities act 2010
 Provision of work equipment regulations
 The personal protective equipment and work regulations act of 1992
Implications
These requirements and responsibilities ensure safety practices for leraners.it also ensures that
the resources are into correct standards and enables practitioners to be effectively trained in using
the resources.
They prevent practitioners from developing resources that do not meet the safety requirements.
TASK E: Mention sources of resource and development.
Evaluate how good the resources are
An important association of learning resources, for example, web sites, reports, applications, and
so forth that gives clients a less demanding source to find the materials of resource and
development (Kalagiakos,and Karampelas, 2011 p.45).Clients practice without anyone else, at
their very own pace, to build up their capacity to dependably perform and exhibit the objective
learning and aptitudes
A learning resource center is an office inside a school, staffed by an expert, containing a few data
sources. Learning Resource Centers can likewise be organized in different organizations for
instructing and learning purposes (Rennie and Morrison 2013 p.140). The resources are good
since they offer a basic level of assisting students in leaning and understanding in order to be
successful in their studies. The resources also develops their intellectual knowledge thus
ensuring physical and mental growth.
TASK F: Emerging Technology: smart phones, iPad, power point slides. How do we use
them well or how good are they. How have you used them in your lesson?
.

Versatile Learning by means of Tablets and Smartphones: With the blast of the tablet specialty
over the most recent couple of years propelled by Apple's iPad, and the regularly expanding
registering power in our pockets on account of the Android versus Apple advanced mobile phone
wars, the potential for adapting anyplace, whenever has never been more prominent (Ryan,Scott,
Freeman and Patel 2013,p.140). Regardless of what grade you instruct, it is difficult to overlook
the manner in which that these gadgets can make learning devices and self-coordinated adapting
staggeringly open.
In spite of the fact that colleges are anxious to use the capability of versatile figuring out how to
give adapting adaptably, most shrug off the expense of giving understudies portable equipment.
The act of 'bring your own device'(BYOD) is frequently mooted as a financially savvy elective.
This paper gives a depiction of understudy responsibility for gadgets at a local Australian
college. Our examination demonstrates that understudies do approach and utilize a wide scope of
gadgets. Be that as it may, the conveyance of learning is tested when understudies endeavor to
get to materials and exercises utilizing these gadgets (Guoli and Wanjun 2010,p.356). Course
materials are infrequently improved for use on cell phones, exploring sites and learning the board
frameworks turns into a looking over bad dream, and cooperating with different students is
frequently unreasonable utilizing recommended frameworks. Most concerning is that none of the
understudies studied were taking part in teacher driven portable learning activities.
I have used them through issuing the students with them, sending assignments through them,
making close supervision and follow-up to ensure that they are used only for educational
purposes. Only the learning sites have been allowed hence restricting other unrequired
applications. They have also been used for research and development.in the lesson the ideas have
been utilized through creating students groups and discussion.
TASK G: How I have used the resources in the classroom relating to my subject area
(ICT)
I have used the resources in the classroom through the following ways
Offering visual through the class board

Using the flash cards containing learning information to aid students in learning.I make sure that
the students close their eyes and try as much as possible to visualize and understand the
information from the resources.I usually give clear overview and explanations in little and
distinct levels in order to make the resources easy to understand.According toSalmon (2013)
provision of written and oral direction regarding the resources is also critical. I normally shorten
the listening time required in order to make the class mire interesting. Provision of both written
and manipulative tasks is also done in using the resources to my ICT subject area.
TASK H: How do you adapt your resources to meet the needs of different learners E.g.
PowerPoint, books, computer, and iPad?
Use of differentiation technique as a way of modifying instructions, changing the content, the
process of being taught and the product (or literally ho the learner demonstrates learning).I
utilize this technique in order to meet the needs of diverse students (Knight 2010, p.67).
I also modify the assignments from the resources in order to make them quite accessible to every
learner
I always make sure that the learner’s interest and utilize that immediate feedback in order to
guide the curriculum and adapt the resources to suit the needs of the learner’s
I also split the class into several smaller groups so that I can group them according to the
resource type that suits those bets.
Training of paraprofessionals in the room in order to utilize resources effectively like by
conduction of reading conferences with learners (Sharples,Taylor and Vavoula 2010,p.45).
In the PowerPoint, making a cheat sheet which indicates learner’s IEP/ELL classifications and
modifications to suit individual with special needs .some of the modification used include
graphic organizers, audio/visual aid, word banks, checklists and chunked texts.
Meeting as a team in order to understand the individualized education program of each student is
also a way of adapting the teaching resources to meet the students diverse needs.(Tu et
al,2012.p.56).

TASK I: Reflection on my practice. Give three areas of developments. Strength and
weaknesses.
Personal reflection and strengths
It is evident that all my students continuously kept update on the resources and actively engaged
by providing them with varieties of challenging activities and class tasks.
I’m also able to identify the challenges of each student and help them in using all the learning
resources (Hadjerrouit 2010,p.115).
Weaknesses and Areas that need development
Challenges in using Worksheets. Two varieties of worksheets should be developed .this will
enable me to differentiate several tasks depending on the learners needs
Interactive whiteboards. Online research to be done in order to identify effective ways to utilize
this resource (Wang et al,2012,p.78)
PowerPoint. Longer periods of time can be utilized in creating of much slides in my PowerPoint
presentations. This will be important in making sure that learning results and objectives are well
highlighted to my students

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