Exploring Teacher Roles, Responsibilities, and Legal Aspects

This presentation comprehensively examines the multifaceted roles and responsibilities of teachers, emphasizing the importance of effective teaching practices. It delves into the distinction between teacher roles and responsibilities, providing clear definitions and examples. Furthermore, the pr...Read More

EQUALITY AND
DIVERSITY

Table of Contents
■ Introduction
■ 1.1 Roles and responsibilities of Teacher
■ 1.2 Key legislation and Regulation
■ 1.3 Relationships and boundaries between the teaching and other
professional roles
■ Conclusion
■ References

INTRODUCTION
Teaching job and profession is one of the most complicated and important
job. In order to increase the effectiveness in learning, the teacher must
conduct his or her roles and responsibilities effectively and efficiently. In
accordance with this context, the following presentation will demonstrates
the roles and responsibility of teacher. The legislation they must follow in
order to avoid legal consequences. The relationship between teaching roles
and other professional roles will be assess in this presentation.

1.1 Roles and responsibilities of teacher

Defining roles and responsibilities of
teacher
■ Teaching is the profession where a person provided guidance and learnings
to one or more than one people.
■ There are various roles played by the teacher in his or her career.
■ Role is the part which is played by the teacher in providing guidance to
learners.
■ Responsibilities are the duties which are to be fulfilled by the teachers.

Differentiate between roles and
responsibilities of a teacher.
Roles
■ Roles are the positions team
members assume or are
assigned --the part that each
person plays in the
organization.
Responsibilities
■ Responsibilities are the
specific tasks or duties that
members are expected to
complete according to their
roles.

Roles of teacher
■ Teacher: The role of teacher is to provide effective learning to the learners.
■ Assessor: An assessor is the person who evaluates the quality of a person.
■ Instructor: An instructor is the person who guides another person in the
right direction so that they can achieve success in their life.

Responsibilities of teacher
■ Enforcement of organisational policies: The responsibility of the
teacher is to contribute in and enforcing the policies of the organisation.
This is very important responsibility which the teacher has been
associated with.
■ Support learners with their studies: Supporting learners in their studies
is one of the crucial role of teacher. In order to improve the skills and
abilities of the learners, the teacher must support them with their
learning.

Cont.
■ Keep up to date with subject knowledge: The responsibility of the
teacher is to keep the knowledge up to date. This is very important in
order to deliver updated information and knowledge to the learners.
■ Identify learners needs: The teacher needs to identify the needs of the
learners and make appropriate plan of action. This will assist him or her
to provide quality education to the learner.

Cont..
■ Plan and prepare all lessons and resources: Planning is important for
the teacher. In order to provide quality education to the learner, it will be
the duty and responsibility of the teacher to prepare all lessons and
resources.
■ Mark assessments: Marking assessments of learners is essential. It will
provide the brief idea about the skills and knowledge gained by the
learners.

Cont..
■ Give regular feedback to learners: Feedbacks are given to learners on
their responses and answers so that they can make further improvements.
It is the role of teacher to provide regular feedbacks to learners in order to
improve their abilities.
■ Identify learners needs: The teacher needs to identify the needs of the
learners and make appropriate plan of action. This will assist him or her
to provide quality education to the learner.

Cont..
■ Deliver lessons effectively: The role of teacher is to deliver the lesson effectively so
that students learning and competencies skills can be developed effectively and
efficiently. This will help the learners to nurture their skills and abilities adequately.

1.2 Key Legislation and regulation
Legislation followed by
Teacher
Equity
and
Diversity
Data
Protection
Act 1998
Health
and safety
at Work
act 1974
In order to provide quality
learning experience to learners
and to avoid any legal
consequences, the teacher
needs to follow certain
legislation and regulation.

Health and safety at Work act 1974
The law is governed by the parliament of United Kingdom. It places a duty
on all employers "to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health,
safety and welfare at work" of all their employees. According to this law, the
employers, school staff and teachers are responsible to take care of learners
and students at the workplace. The teacher must conduct those activities
which have no risk of harm and damage to learner.

Data Protection Act 1998
According to Data Protection Act
1998, the teachers and employers
of the professional centre and
schools are responsible to store the
personal data and information
about the learners in a secured
place.

Equity and Diversity
According to the Equality Act
2010, the management of the
organisation is not allowed to
conduct any kind of
discrimination within the
organisation. In a teaching career,
a professional need to deal with
different and diverse students.

1.3 Relationships and boundaries between
the teaching and other professional roles.
Teaching role personal boundary
■ Skills
■ Confidence
■ Experience
■ Commitment

Teaching role professional boundary
■ Team role: While considering other professional boundaries, the teacher
must work with other staff members of the organisation in a team so that
the common goals and objectives of the organisation can be achieve.
■ Management and structures: The teacher must work according to the
prescribed structure developed by the management of the organisation.
He or she must maintain the confidentiality of learners with other
professionals.

CONCLUSION
Teaching profession is considered as complex profession. Teachers have ample
of responsibilities on their shoulders and they have to fulfil them in order to
increase the knowledge and education of next generations. In accordance with
this context, the following presentation describes the roles and responsibilities
of the teachers. Various legislations they needs to comply with has been
assessed and the relationship with personal and professional boundaries has
been ascertained in the present presentation.

References
■ Bate, E., Hommes, J., Duvivier, R. and Taylor, D.C., 2014. Problem-based learning
(PBL): getting the most out of your students–their roles and responsibilities: AMEE
guide no. 84. Medical teacher, 36(1), pp.1-12.
■ Biesta, G., Priestley, M. and Robinson, S., 2015. The role of beliefs in teacher
agency. Teachers and Teaching, 21(6), pp.624-640.
■ Bolden, R., Gosling, J. and O'Brien, A., 2014. Citizens of the academic community? A
societal perspective on leadership in UK higher education. Studies in Higher
Education, 39(5), pp.754-770.
■ Borg, S., 2015. Teacher cognition and language education: Research and practice.
Bloomsbury Publishing.
■ Stronge, J. and Tucker, P., 2017. Handbook on Teacher Evaluation with CD-ROM.
Routledge.
■ Tam, A.C.F., 2015. The role of a professional learning community in teacher change: A
perspective from beliefs and practices. Teachers and Teaching, 21(1), pp.22-43.

THANK YOU