Report: Teaching Roles, Responsibilities in Education and Training

This report comprehensively examines the multifaceted roles and responsibilities of teachers within the realms of education and training. It begins by defining the core functions of a teacher, including their roles as controllers, resources, assessors, and tutors, and then proceeds to outline the key responsibilities they hold in disseminating knowledge, adopting appropriate teaching methods, maintaining professionalism, and fostering positive student behavior. The report then delves into the legal and regulatory frameworks that govern teachers' conduct, such as the Children Act 2004 and the Health and Safety Work Act 1974, alongside ethical codes and practices. Furthermore, it underscores the importance of promoting equality and diversity in the classroom, offering practical strategies to ensure equal opportunities for all learners. Finally, the report emphasizes the significance of identifying and meeting the individual needs of learners, highlighting how this approach enhances the quality of education, fosters student interest, and ultimately contributes to more effective learning outcomes. The report concludes by reinforcing the crucial role of teachers in shaping the educational landscape and supporting the development of successful learners.

Responsibilities in Education
and Training

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Determination of the teaching role and responsibilities in both education and training.......1
1.2 Summarisation of the key aspects of legislations, regulatory requirements and code of
practices relating to teacher roles and responsibilities................................................................3
1.3 Explanation of different ways related to promotion of equality and diversity......................3
1.4 Importance of identifying and meeting individual learner needs..........................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The role of teaching is most important towards development of education and training aspects.
The person who is responsible for teaching is known as teacher/trainer. Teacher performs the
function related to dissemination of important information to learner. Education is known as the
process of facilitating learning or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs and habits.
This is also called as the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction for the purpose of
improving knowledge upon some specific topic. On the other hand, training is defined as
teaching and developing specific skills and knowledge that help to build specific useful
competencies. The main purpose behind consideration of trainings is improving one’s capability,
capacity, productivity and performance (Coulet, 2018). The major different between education
and training is that education is long term that never ends whereas, training is limited up to the
development of skill. The main aim of this report is to ascertain the importance of teaching role
in development of the aspects like training and education.
The aspects cover in current report includes teaching role and responsibilities in education &
training, key aspects of legislations, regulatory requirements and code of practices relating to
their roles and responsibilities, ways to promote equality and diversity and identification of
importance regarding meeting of the individual learner needs.
MAIN BODY
1.1 Determination of the teaching role and responsibilities in both education and training
Education and training both requires effective teaching by a teacher. Education is long
term perspective as compared to training. The overall aspect associated with the performance of
both is common that is dissemination of knowledge and information for improving learning.
There are many type of roles and responsibilities of teacher towards the concept of education and
training. All these are defined below in description.
Role of teacher in education and training
The controller: The educator is in finished charge of the class, what understudies do, what
they state and how they state it. The educator accepts this job when another dialect is being
presented and exact propagation and boring systems are required. In this study hall, the educator
is for the most part the focal point of centre, the instructor may have the endowment of guidance,
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and can rouse through their own insight and aptitude. There is additionally a recognition that this
job could have an absence of assortment in its exercises.
The Resource: The educator is a sort of strolling asset focuses over prepared assistance if
necessary, or furnish students with whatever language they need when performing open
exercises. The instructor must make her/himself accessible with the goal that students can
counsel her/him when (and just when) it is totally essential. As an asset the instructor can direct
students to utilize accessible assets, for example, the web, for themselves, it positively isn't
important to coddle students, as this may have the drawback of making students dependent on
the educator.
The Assessor: The educator expects this job to perceive how well understudies are performing
or how well they performed. Input and rectification are composed and done. There is an
assortment of ways teacher can review students; the job of an assessor offers educators a chance
to address students. In any case, in the event that it isn't spoken with affectability and bolster it
could demonstrate counter-profitable to an understudy's confidence and trust in learning the
objective language (Daikou and Telfer, 2018).
The Tutor: The instructor goes about as a mentor when understudies are engaged with
venture work or self-study. The instructor gives counsel and direction and assists understudies
with explaining thoughts and cut-off undertakings. This job can be an extraordinary method to
give singular consideration to an understudy. It can likewise permit an educator to tailor make a
course to fit explicit understudy needs. Nonetheless, it can likewise prompt an understudy
turning out to be too needy or even excessively alright with one educator and one strategy or
style of instructing.
Responsibilities of teacher in education and training
Knowledge of subject: Most important responsibility upon a teacher is about the
knowledge of subject. This is necessary because they have to provide solution to student queries.
Appropriate teaching: The teacher has the responsibility regarding adoption of
appropriate methods of teaching that fits to the requirement of all students. Also, they have the
responsibility about usage of innovative ways to create students interest.
Professionalism: Teacher have the responsibility to maintain professionalism within
their behaviour. This includes the regular classing taking and answering of questions till they not
get in actual.
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Good Behaviour: This is responsibility over teacher to behave good with students. This
has importance in attraction of learning attitude of students along with creating motivation for
gaining knowledge about new things.
1.2 Summarisation of the key aspects of legislations, regulatory requirements and code of
practices relating to teacher roles and responsibilities
All the teacher while providing assistance to students adhere the legislations, regulatory
requirements and code of practices that exists in education sector. These were prepared by the
government authorities, sector institutions and school personnel’s for governing the behaviour of
teacher at time of performing role and responsibilities at workplace. All these different
legislations, regulatory requirements and code of practices are defined below:
Legislations
Children Act 2004: The section 11 of this Act creates the obligation over teacher that
must secure and promote the welfare of children while performing work at workplace.
Health and Safety Work Act 1974: As per section of 7 of this act teachers have the duty
to comply with guidance provided by school over health and safety issues and make sure they
must be familiar with such guidance (Dalimunthe and Muda, 2017).
Regulatory requirements and Code of practices
The Education (School teacher’s appraisal) Regulations, 2012: This governs the
information regarding the qualification of a teacher. This also can be used further for the purpose
of teacher’s performance appraisal.
Ethical and respectful: The behaviour of teacher must be ethical in nature and also
respectful towards all either younger or elder in age.
Professionalism: All the teachers must behave professionally at classrooms or
workplace. This governs the activities of teacher regarding meeting with students and other
professionals at workplace.
Perform work with honesty, care and integrity: This creates an obligation over teacher
that must perform the role with honesty, care and integrity. They have the duty regarding
providence of equal opportunities to all students irrespective to the any nature or condition.
1.3 Explanation of different ways related to promotion of equality and diversity
Equality is tied in with guaranteeing that each individual has an equivalent chance to benefit as
much as possible from their lives and gifts. It is likewise the conviction that nobody ought to
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have more unfortunate life chances due to the manner in which they were conceived, where they
originate from, what they accept, or whether they have an incapacity. It means no
discriminations on the basis of factors like age, sex, religion, colour, disability etc. Also, Equality
isn't constantly about treating everybody the equivalent – it is tied in with treating individuals so
that the result for every individual can be the equivalent. This implies setting up things to help
individuals to accomplish comparable results. For an individual who is visually impaired it might
include having screen reads on your PCs and expelling snags in your structure (Fenwick and
Edwards, 2016).
Diversity includes that every individual is fascinating, and perceiving our own individual
contrasts. These can be along with the components like race, ethnicity, sex, sexual direction,
financial status, age, physical capacities, strict convictions, political convictions, or different
belief systems.
There are large number of benefits is attached with the successful adherence and
implementation of both concepts i.e. equality and diversity. It is must to promote the equality and
diversity at all different levels in all distinct areas. Currently, my own specialist area is subject of
English. The promotion of equality and diversity value is highly important in this area and
associated with large number of benefits. The ways that will help to promote equality and value
diversity are defined below:
Allowing all to attend subject class: This is the practice that includes providence of equal
opportunity to all in attendance of subject class irrespective to their colour, religion, caste,
gender, values, belief, belongingness etc. It promotes the equality as no one is differentiated to
enter or attend class on the basis of person’s characteristic. It also values the diversity because
equal chance is given to all regarding learning of the language whether it was their mother
tongue or not.
Freedom to choose their own way of learning: It is must to provide the opportunity to all the
students irrespective to their belonging status and associated characteristics regarding acceptance
of own way of learning. This means there is no restriction upon anyone regarding adherence of
the one common way of learning. They have the option to select the way of learning to which
they are more familiar or able to gain knowledge easily. This promotes the equality as no
restriction is made over students. Also, this values the diversity as each and every one have the
option to select their own way of learning (Hidayat and Budiatma, 2018).
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1.4 Importance of identifying and meeting individual learner needs
Identifying and meeting individual learner needs is the concept related to determining and
completion of the aspects which are necessary to have for learning in accordance to the person’s
characteristics. The performance of this activity has huge positive impact in development of their
learning within their own specialist area. This happens due to the association of large number of
importance’s with this concept. Description of all these along with contribution towards
development of learning within own specialist area is provided below:
Achieving Quality: The one of the most important benefit associated with aspect of identifying
and meeting learner needs within specialist area is achievement of quality knowledge. Learner
have different needs for the purpose of gaining knowledge. Some can gain from treading, some
from practical experience etc. So, providing learning in the way that individual want helps to
gain the qualitative information that always remain within their personality. This will provide the
opportunity to easily answer all questions in their own subject area irrespective to its nature i.e.
hard or simple (Hopkins and Kohl, 2019).
Creating Interest: Identifying and meeting needs creates the interest of a person in learning
of new aspects within their own specialist area. This provide the opportunity to easily gain the
information and core concepts associated with topic. Also, the person not get bored and try to
learn with high level of enthusiasm. This happen because way of learning is of their own interest.
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above report that effective dissemination of role and
responsibilities of teacher is important for the purpose of effective learning, education and
training. There are many legislations and regulatory requirements that governs the working
practices of teacher at workplace.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Coulet, J. C., 2018. Anchoring Social and Environmental Responsibilities in Educational and
Training Practices. Competence and Program‐based Approach in Training: Tools for
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Daikou, S. and Telfer, S., 2018. Preparation for education and training–The professional role and
responsibilities of the Further Education teacher. Journal of Learning and Student
Experience. 1. p.8.
Dalimunthe, D. M. and Muda, I., 2017. The Empiricaleffect of Education and Training to the
Performance of Employees.
Fenwick, T. and Edwards, R., 2016. Exploring the impact of digital technologies on professional
responsibilities and education. European Educational Research Journal. 15(1). pp.117-
131.
Hidayat, R. and Budiatma, J., 2018. Education and job training on employee
performance. International journal of social sciences and humanities. 2(1). pp.171-181.
Hopkins, C. A. and Kohl, K., 2019. Teacher Education Around the World: ESD at the Heart of
Education—Responsibilities and Opportunities Towards a Sustainable Future for All.
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