Teacher Training Report: Roles, Responsibilities, and Communication

This report, a contribution to Desklib, a platform for AI-based study tools, analyzes key aspects of teacher training, learning, and assessment in education and training. Task 1 focuses on the roles, responsibilities, and boundaries of a teacher, including legislative and regulatory requirements such as the Data Protection Act, Health and Safety Act, and Ofsted regulations. It examines the roles of a teacher, trainer, coach, and assessor, alongside their responsibilities in areas such as preparation, management, and assessment. Task 2 delves into the practical application of teaching methods, emphasizing the importance of identifying individual student needs, planning learning strategies, and incorporating diverse resources to support students with varying abilities and disabilities. The report references Kolb's experiential learning cycle. Task 3 discusses the significance of effective communication in the teaching-learning process, detailing the components of communication, and the impact of good communication skills on student-teacher relationships and overall learning outcomes, highlighting the importance of feedback and student engagement.

Running head: TEACHER TRAINING
TEACHER TRAINING
Name of the Student
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Task 1:
The central aim, objective and role of a teacher, coach, mentor, assessor, tutor, instructor,
trainer, educator in the field of education is to encourage and support their learners in terms of
obtaining their learning goal and to reach the best platform. However, under the notion of role of
the educator or teacher, the person have play many other roles at the same time, other than role
of a teacher as per the requirement of their job, in order to ensure the continuous effective
learning factor of their learners (Hughes 2005). For instance, a teacher, apart from his teaching
role also plays some of the following roles in the field of education for the students:
Firstly, of course as a Teacher, it takes on the responsibility of teaching and facilitate and
encourage students learning.
Secondly, plays the role of an Admin in order to register students or learners.
Thirdly, as a Technician it plays the role of teaching the students about operating the
computer and ICT equipment.
Fourthly, as a Logistics help the learners by providing them resources.
Fifthly, as an Assessor it performs the task of marking the work of the learners.
In the role of an educator, there are duties to perform if the teacher is to acquire the
overarching objective of ensuring the factor of learning of the students. Following the cycle of
learning recommended by Gravells in the year 2014, then an educator has responsibilities to
perform in all the five stages of the learning cycle:

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Identifying requirements: An educator or teacher is responsible for recognition of the
requirement of the user alongside the relevant organization. Its vital as it ensures planning that
delivers the students with the most effective ways of success in their respective subjects.
Planning of the Learning: It is the responsibility of the teacher to put the correct plan in its
respective place, customized for fulfilling individual learning style.
Encouraging Learning: It is the responsibility of the teacher to encourage learning using the
best method possible in order to promote their self learning style.
Evaluating and Assessing learning: It is the responsibility of the teacher to keep on assessing
and keeping record of the students knowledge and their progress and evaluating and monitoring
all the stages of learning.
Further role involves professional guidelines, personal conduct, maintaining subject
knowledge, setting examples and being a role model.
Every educator needs to abide by number of legislative needs passed in Parliament, like,
the Data Protection Act, the Health and Safety Act, the Children Act and the Equality Act and
other acts.
Apart from these acts there are some regulatory needs as well which are passed by
government bodies, like, Ofsted. Such regulatory needs comprises, Control of Substances, Food
Hygiene Regulations and Fire Safety among others. In ICT, in 1992 Health and Safety
regulations, are results which must be adhered in terms of learners well-being. Educators also
needs to adhere to the Code of Conduct of their selected profession. The BCS, 2015 (British
Computer Society) have a cluster of guidelines which the ICT professionals must follow (Bray
and Howard 1980). The areas are:

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The public interest, states, considers privacy, security, well being, and health of
environment and others.
Professional integrity and competence, not claiming of such competence which the
person does not possess.
Duty to the profession, acting with respect and integrity.
Duty towards authority, employing the individual.
Task 2:
As per my research, in order to achieve individual learning goals of the students, it is
important for the teacher to play various roles in terms of acquire learner’s continuous learning.
To validate this process a system cycle is required. I have used the cycle of teaching, learning
and assessment in terms of identifying the requirements of the teaching and learning procedure in
various stages in order to improvise the method,
The identification of requirements not only focuses on the need of the student but also the
need of the teacher along with the need of the institution and identifying specifically the
individual needs of the learners is at the earliest stage which enables the earliest action on the
planning of the individual learning program.
After identifying the need of the learner, then the educator can provide a suitable learning
planning accordingly. As not all learners physical ability is same neither their mental abilities
are. Some leaners might suffer from vision problem, some might have hearing disability, some
might have dyslexia or some other kind of deficiency or disability. So, just arranging basic
general resources for the learning process of the student is not going to be enough for the student

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or the teacher who is going to carry the process forward. The student suffering from dyslexia will
not be able to process its learning using only the basic learning tools like textbook and other
things are going to be enough like other children, it will be needing resources like, worksheets
available in Braille, or different language or printed in a separate type of font for students who
have dyslexia. In addition, they will also be needing some other resources for coping up with
their physical disabilities like, wheelchair. Also, a special person will be needed to always
observe such students with deficiencies if the student is visually impaired.
In this process, after identifying the leaders own style of learning, it becomes easier to
plan further learning strategies using different resources as per the requirement of the student in
order to deliver more affective teaching learning style. The learning cycle has been deviced by
Kolb in the year 1984,the eelssence of this cycle suggests that learner learns best when they are
not only learning from text book but also including practical form of learning;it also focuses on
the fact of learning not only inside the classroom but outside the classroom as well. This learning
cycle model can be used in a best form in terms of using it for planning activities and planning
lessons which are mostly used for engaging learners.
Experimental Learning Cycle of Kolb:
Beside all the strategies of identifying and learning for the learner, this cycle helps in
identifying and planning needs according to the learners ability and also helps in identifying and
monitoring weather the learner is taking this suitable learning process or learning force alongside
if there is any other relevant suitable process that needs to be followed. Such requirements can be
identified potentially at the stage of enrollment or in some other form of assessment initiative.

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Regarding the individual needs of the learner, there may be situations when the educator
is focusing on the impact of the methodology of the learning process upon their learning. As
there maybe various issues with which the learner or it’s families are might be dealing with, such
as family issue, transport issue and financial issue. The teacher is responsible for or capable of
helping the students with some of these problems like it can arrange an online setup for the
learners who are not able to attend regular classes. However, there are other problems for which
the learner might seek help elsewhere, such as any medical reason for non attendance. In such
cases the teacher should know, where the learner should refer, for example the learner can be
reffered to relevant health care specialist like psychiatrist and doctor in case of any psychological
or medical issue. On the other hand if the learner is struggling with language problem, in this
case the organization perhaps must have an EAL specialist, who can provide help to learner or
refer them to other institution or organization. Those learners struggling with financial difficulty
can be referred to a financial advisor or Citizens Advice bereau. Having the knowledge of were
to refer the learner in different cases is crucial for a teacher in order to meet the learners needs, as
per Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. In order to allow them to acquire their learning potential
(Warren 1998).
As per my research being a teacher, applying all these attributes on my learners who have
different abilities and disabilities at the same time. I found out that, just there subsequent
abilities, there ability of grasping knowledge along with there response to various teaching
strategies is different. Thus I have carefully used separate learning resources and strategies for
each of the learners, as I have categorised them accordingly. So that, each of the learners can get
equal opportunity to progress there learning.

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It is important to keep in mind that the methods should be only learner centred they must
be motivating, specific and must have the ability to fulfil the skill gaps.
Task 3
The process of communication is simply the act of information transfer from one place to
another, from one person to another and from one group to another. Every communication
includes atleast one sender, one recipient and one message. This notion might sound very
straightforward and simple, however, the actual depth of communication is supremely a complex
subject. The transmission or the tranfer of a message or an information from sender to the
recipient can be influenced by various factors. Such range of factors involves, the cultural
situation, our location, our emotion, and the medium which has been used in order to
communicate. The communication skill is considered to be a complex skill as it is not easy to
deliver on ambiguous, effective, accurate communication all the time, which are actually
expected by the employers across the world. As this definition stablishes clearly that the notion
of communication in much simple in comparison to the transmission of information or
transfering of message. This terms requires or needs a component of success in the field of
imparting a message in the form of emotion, idea or information. There are three parts in the
concept of communication, the sender, the recipient and the message (Kurtz, Draper and
Silverman 2017.).
The message is encoded by the sender, which is usually a mixture of words and it’s a non
verbal type of communication. It is transferred as a form of message to the recipient who
decodes the message. It is obvious that complexity of the communication in the situation where
there are more than one recipient as in such cases each of the recipient will receive the same

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message differently. Because every ones understanding level and style of decodeing message
cannot be same. On the other hand, the message that had been encoded by the sender carries the
understanding of the sender, but the message that the recipient receives will be slightly different
from what the sender has sent, due to the fact that the recipients understanding level is different
from the senders.
The role of communication in the field of learning and teaching method is very crucial as
if the communication is effective, it will automatically boost the teaching learning method which
will benefit the teacher and the student both. Communication is responsible for making the
learning and teaching process easier, for instance, if the students and teacher in a classroom
situation are effectively communicating in terms of delivering information and receiving it. Then
it will be easier for the teacher to teach the learners effectively and the learners will also be able
to achieve goals of their learning, it upserges the opportunities of expanding the learning ability,
it improves the connection between the teacher and the student and maintains an overall positive
environment.
Good communication skill promotes the students self esteem and confidence. When the
relation between the teacher and the student is positive the teacher helps the student in Various
manners along with appreciateing the learners thoughts and ideas which boosts the learners
interest for learning. Teacher who encourages students learning by rewarding them automatically
notices an improvement in the overall class performance of the learners. The effective teaching
of a teacher can be extracted from the students feedback, which can be done by asking effective
questions to the students, and if the learners are able to answer the questions then it is proved that
the communication of the teacher is effective. In case there is lack of response in the classroom it
is proved that the communication was not effective enough and the students are not able to

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understand what is taught to them which affects there learning process negatively (Chen and
McNamee 2007).
Entertainment education comprises of a mixture of fundamental entertainment pedagogy
along with four communication theories in order to guide arrangements of the programming. The
major communication theories which influences entertainment education are comprised of
following theories:
Theory of persuasion: under the notion of this theory Cacioppo, Aristotle and Petty stablishes
that the psychological characteristics influences the responses of an individual to messages along
with indicating the source and message factors which impacts an individuals response, like,
attractiveness, expertise and credibility of the source.
Reasoned Action Theory: Social influence impacts behaviour, stated by Fishbane and Ajzen.
Theory of social learning: Bandura establishes that learning takes place by observing others
behaviour and the result of their own behaviour.
Theory of Diffusion: In this Roger says that the spread of behaviour occurs through a cluster
and community over a period of time. As internet or television can input idea but it is reinforced
by social network.
The theory of Jean Piaget ensures that the learning process of children through hands in
experience and active knowledge. In order to do this an adult must be providing the learner the
right materials, which will allow the learner to construct and interact effectively. Following the
theory of Jean Piaget I have also tried giving my learners customised materials in order to
effectively interact and construct (Piaget 1952). The theory of cognitive development focuses in
accusation of knowledge during childhood which comprises processes like, reasoning,

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understanding, learning, remembering, problem solving and conceptualizing as an overall aspect
of human intelligence. This theory deals with only intellectual fictions which can be individually
studed from socio economic functioning. According to this theory there are four stages of
primary development, which are, sensory motor stage, which ranges from zero to two years,
preoperational stage which ranges from two to seven years of age, concrete operational stage
which ranges from seven to eleven years of age and the formal operational stage which ranges
eleven to fifteen years of age.
After analysing Piaget's theory, following it in my personal research method, I noticed
the progress of the learners and the ability of there learning through out this four stages are
different from one another.
Types of communication and there benefits and limitations (Littlemore, 2003):
Verbal communication: This comprises of different types of communication, such as tutor talk,
open and closed questioning, discussion, presentation, didactic, listening. It includes face to face
communication along with communication through radio, telephone or other media.
Non Verbal Communication: It includes that kind of communication which takes place with
the help of body language, for example, delivering a message or showing a emotional stage
through acting.
Communication through media: This includes usage of images, videos, letters, social media,
magazine, books, internet and other media. It can also be categorised as written communication.
Which can be performed on practical papers or through online process. Under this charts and
graphs, logos and maps are also included.

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The other source of communication in order to implement effective teaching and learning
process includes Information Communication Technology (ICT), for example, audio and visual
aids, power point, PDF, VLE and many more (Sheard 2009).
Task 4a:
Summative Assessment: This assessment procedure arrives at the very
end of the sequence of learning and it is used
for recording the overall acquirement of the
learner at the end of the learning process. The
primary aim and objective of summative
assessment is to evaluate a learner’s
achievement post learning. For instance,
examinations and final papers, which presents
the overall performance of the student and its
understanding level. Summative assessment is
used in all the educational institutions of
United States, as it has more weightage
compared to formative one. Interview, Tests,
Questionnaire, and projects are some of the
methods which are used to measure this
assessment (Taras 2005).

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Formative Assessment: This assessment involves a various types of
informal and formal procedures of
assessment, that are used in the classroom by
the educator in order to improvise the
teaching process and grab the student’s
attention along with retention and learning
activity. This survey geyser in throughout the
process of learning and determined the
learners performance during the process of
learning, which is unlike summative that
evaluates at the very end. The primary aim
and objective of this assessment is to include
the learners attention and support them to
achieve their goal. It helps in measuring the
weakness and strength of the learners and it is
performed in the classroom itself.
Questioning the students while teaching is an
example of formative assessment. It is an
integral part of teaching and it is directed
towards promoting learning. It helps in
determining individual or group weaknesses
by identifying it (Taras 2005).