Unit 503: Wider Professional Practice and Development in Education

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of wider professional practice and development in education and training, focusing on the role of a health and care trainer. It defines professionalism and dual professionalism, examining how personal values influence practice. The report analyzes the impact of social, political, and economic factors on education policy and curriculum, along with the roles and accountability of stakeholders and external bodies. Organizational policies, codes of practice, and quality assurance arrangements are also assessed, culminating in an evaluation of a learning program and identification of areas for improvement. The report highlights the importance of continuous professional development and adaptation to evolving educational landscapes.

Unit 503 Wider
Professional Practice
and Development in
Education and
Training

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Define the concept of professionalism and dual professionalism in education and training 1
1.2 Explain ways in which own professional values influence own practice in an area of
specialism....................................................................................................................................2
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Explain ways in which social, political and economic factors influence education policy. .3
2.2 Analyse the impact of current educational policies on curriculum and practice in own area
of specialism................................................................................................................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
3.1 Explain the roles of stakeholders and external bodies in education and training.................5
3.2 Explain how being accountable to stakeholders and external bodies impacts on
organisation in education and training........................................................................................5
3.3 Explain why it is important to work in partnership with employers and other stakeholders
in education and training.............................................................................................................6
3.4 Analyse the impact of being accountable to stakeholders and external bodies on
curriculum design, delivery and assessment in own area of specialism.....................................6
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7
4.1 Explain key aspects of policies, codes of practice and guidelines of an organisation..........7
4.2 Analyse the impact of organizational requirements and expectations on curriculum
practice in own area of specialism..............................................................................................7
TASK 5............................................................................................................................................8
5.1 Analyse the quality improvement and quality assurance arrangements of own organisation
.....................................................................................................................................................8
5.2 Explanation of the of self-assessment function and self-evaluation and the cycle of
quality..........................................................................................................................................9

5.3 Evaluation of the programme of learning by taking consideration the quality maintenance
of own organization...................................................................................................................10
5.4 Identification of the areas for improvement in programme of learning taking
consideration of the results of evaluation.................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
References:.....................................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Development of professional people is a procedure which leads to the development of
learning for the purpose of earning or maintaining the professional career. It help the individual
in bringing improvement in the skills of individual to grow more faster. In order to getting the
higher opportunity, it is crucial to develop the skills in the individual to perform the education
procedure(Williams, 2018). The chosen area of specialisation for this report is health and care
trainer. This report include the concept of professionalism and dual professionalism, factors
affecting education, role of stakeholders and many more.
TASK 1
1.1 Define the concept of professionalism and dual professionalism in education and training
Professionalism refers to the skills, actions or knowledge which is found as essential to
have in a teacher for the purpose of performing their role in an effective and efficient manner.
There are several specific skills which make the teacher professional. Along with this, there are
several guidelines and code of conduct have been developed in order to bring the efficiency in
the operations of professional people such as teacher(Vnouckova, Urbancová and Smolová,
2017). The teachers take commitment related to their work and teach the students.
Professionalism can be attained through getting the effective training as it directly leads to
delivering the professional services on time and with the best possible quality. In order to bring
the constant improvement in the professional of teacher, they are required to adopt some
principles and pedagogical knowledge. Teaching the students in such a manner, so that they can
gain the knowledge effectively, is the major responsibility of teacher as it leads to the success
and growth of students towards their career. In simple words, it can be define as the performing
of work with following the code of conduct and it is essential to have the professional knowledge
and skills in the individual, so that they can perform the professional work in highly impressive
way. Professional attribute is also a term which is linked with the professional as these are being
adopted by the teachers while providing services to the learners.
In order to get the proper education, dual professionalism is crucial. Under this concept,
the teachers provide vocational along with the subject knowledge to the students. Following the
professional ethics result in the development of learning environment of classroom which plays
an important role in providing the subject knowledge to their learners. It implies direct effect on
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the quality of learning because of removal of several indiscipline activities. Basically, dual
professionalism perform the function of professional behaviour in teacher which also leads to the
overall development of pupils. For the purpose of maintaining the higher quality of education, it
plays an essential role. It is also the responsibility of teacher to behave ethically while
performing their functions which is related to providing the equal opportunities to all the learners
at the correct time. These ethical behaviour or terms combined with the teaching skills or
professional skills in order to perform the functions in the best possible manner. For the purpose
of performing the function of teacher, it is crucial to have relevant qualification and knowledge
about the related subject(Viennet and Pont, 2017).
1.2 Explain ways in which own professional values influence own practice in an area of
specialism
Professionalism is the wide concept which help the individual in performing their tasks
and operations in an effective and efficient manner. My area of specialisation is health and care
trainer. In the respective specialisation area, there are several concepts and consideration which
are found as important to be consider while I am into professionalism. These concepts have their
own importance in the health and care field. In the sector of teaching, a professional person have
power to make the improvement in the efficiency related to the knowledge and information
which is essential to provide in the procedure of learning. In order to maintain the quality and
performance in operations of teacher, professionalism plays an important role. It has been also
found that the dual professionalism is higher effective than the professionalism because it aids
the teachers in bringing improvement in the deliverables through the person in the practices. In
the field of Health and care trainer, the degree is not enough for me. As a professional, I have to
constantly upgrade me to keep me updated in the respective field. I have to work to avoid the
formal education and identify the new manner through self directing. As the teacher of health
and care trainer, I should involve my professional values for the purpose of raising the standards
of the organisations and provide latest and up top date knowledge to the students. While
performing my duties related to the health and care trainer, I have to follow the guidelines of the
organisation through applying the code of conduct for the purpose of adding values in the
organisation. Some of them are given below:
 Developing the goals which will result in stimulating the pupils.
 Encouraging the higher and evolutionary outcomes.
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 Presenting the new information related to the health and care trainer along with
updating the curriculum.
 Adjusting myself with the different cultures of students along with their different
learning styles.
 Encouraging the safe and secure environment of learning(Leal Filho and et.al., 2019).
TASK 2
2.1 Explain ways in which social, political and economic factors influence education policy
Political factors
It refers to the factors or policies which are being developed by the government and effect the
respective field(Tsai and Gasevic, 2017). Below mentioned are the several political factors
which effect the functioning of teacher:
 Government legislation: Performing privatisation of the education sector is the major
decision which has been taken by the government. It highly effect the entire education
industry. Under this legislation, the government education institute become the private,
if their performance is not good. It state that the entire industry is under high risk which
also effect the curriculum(Lawn, 2017).
 Political ideology: Several of universities of UK are depend on the European Regional
Development Fund and European Investment in order to getting the support. The people
in UK are highly involve in the higher education as compare to the society and politics.
 Community regeneration: Brexit result in the huge loss to the education industry of UK
but the regeneration of community result in gaining the higher support to the general
public.
Social Factors
 Migration: It is the process under which the people are shifting from one place to
another(Kravchenko and et.al., 2020). It create the lots of disturbance in the operations of
teachers while delivering the lectures to the students.
 High diversity: It result in supporting the educational institution to work in the several
field of education(Tahat and et.al., 2020). It provide various opportunities to the
organisations to work in more effective and efficient manner.
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 Supporting local initiatives: It has been found that the most of people living in United
Kingdom are highly educated. The high level of literacy level leads to providing the
skilled employees to the educational institutions in order to perform the curriculum in an
effective and efficient way(ingura and Kamusoko, 2019).
Economic factors
 Modifications in financial policy: The internal procedure of educational and training
institutes are highly effected through the changes in the financial policies. Lack of
financial capital result in the shortage of resources for performing the practices.
 Poor economic situation: it can directly effect the fund rising procedure which are
adopted by the education organisation. COVID-19 also result in the huge economic crises
which also leads to the creation of higher unemployment rate of teachers(Ingvarson and
Rowley, 2017) .
2.2 Analyse the impact of current educational policies on curriculum and practice in own area of
specialism.
It has been found as crucial for the educational organisation to keep an eye on the
modifications in the external factors which can bring the improvement in the working
performance of business organisation. Through this track, the organisations can also bring the
necessary changes in the policies. For the purpose of implementing the changes in the operations
of education organisation in successful manner, it is necessary to keep track on the changes
governed by the government. It can help the teachers in reducing the impact of political factors
on the education sector. Development of any strategy or regulation through the government
related to the educational organisation will result in the affect on the entire industry. The teacher
of Health and Care trainer is required to bring the changes in their curriculum along with the
manner of teaching, according to the changes in the policies and legislation developed by the
government(Fernández, 2018).
The performance of organisation can also effected because of the issues linked with the
economy. These are the factors which implies impact over the performance of organisation. The
resources get affected through these factors which are found as essential to implement in the
several curriculum in the correct manner. The changes in the economic condition of united
Kingdom result in the changes in the policies related to finance.
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Social factors leads to the development of techniques and modes which can help the
teachers in improving the quality of performance of teachers. And make them according to the
needs of students(Falqueto and et. al., 2020).
TASK 3
3.1 Explain the roles of stakeholders and external bodies in education and training.
There are several people who are related to the education organisation. Their role is
crucial for the curriculum and procedure which are being performed in the institutes. In order to
improve the internal procedure of education and training, all stakeholders work in a collaborative
manner. Several of stakeholder which are related to the educational and training company
include teachers, parents, students, management of institutes, trainers and many more. Social
care organisations are consider as the external bodies which are related to the educational
organisations as they make sure about the services which are being provided to the pupils. These
are the internal and external bodies which directly effect the decision making process of
organisation(Esmond and Wood, 2017).
They help the institute in making the teachers expertise and perform the other operations
which leads to the development of skills related to the delivery of educational sessions. It also
help in managing the talent in the organisation.
3.2 Explain how being accountable to stakeholders and external bodies impacts on organisation
in education and training.
The accountability of external bodies and stakeholders are crucial in performing the
internal actions which are being performed in the educational institution. It is also found as the
efficiency of the stakeholders which help in attaining the desired goals and objectives.
A process is being used for the purpose of measuring the impact of accountability is
majorly known with the name of reporting process. For the purpose of bringing the improvement
in the in the success of the education and training procedure, managing the external bodies along
with the stakeholders is crucial as it implies several advantages to the organisation. The
management of educational institutes are required to analyse the policies of organisation for the
purpose of doing any modifications in the functions in order to bring the effectiveness as well.
The educational institutes will able to achieve the positive responses and outcome if all
the stakeholders along with the external bodies will be maintained in an effective and efficient
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manner. It state the importance of managing the stakeholders of organisation and external bodies
in a proper and effective manner. Several times, it has been also analysed that higher the
involvement of stakeholders result in the reduction of effectiveness in the procedure of making
decisions related to the organisation. Along with this, it may also result in the increase in the
consumption of time consumed by the management while making decisions(Butterworth,
Christensen and Flippo, 2017).
3.3 Explain why it is important to work in partnership with employers and other stakeholders in
education and training.
The decision making procedure of educational organisation can be improved through the
involvement of several people. For the purpose of bringing the improvement in the effectiveness
in the operations of organisation, they are required to collaborates with the several parties or
external bodies to perform the actions of organisation. Such collaborations result in the
enhancement of effectiveness related to the decision making procedure of institutes. Internal
operations are being performed in different manners, only because of different collaboration with
several parties(Brill and et.al., 2018). Several of activities have been developed through
collaboration with different parties which leads to improving the overall process of education
and training. Several of other benefits of collaboration include better communication, problem
solving abilities, development of skills, improvement in the engagement of employees in
operations and goal alignment and many more. In simple words, it can be said that the
partnership or collaboration helps in the improvement in the internal procedure of educational
organisation.
3.4 Analyse the impact of being accountable to stakeholders and external bodies on curriculum
design, delivery and assessment in own area of specialism.
The operations along with the internal structure of organisation can be effected through
the role of stakeholders as they are consider as the major important part of organisation. Internal
stakeholders are occupying an important position in the institutes. The people in such position
have the power to bring the change in the structure of organisation and also aids to bringing the
changes in the operations as well. The parents of students in the education and training sector are
found as the main stakeholders. They have the power to bring the change and design the
curriculum which is used in the organisation. They also have the power to make force on the
teachers to bring modifications in the curriculum which must be related to the information and
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knowledge delivered to the students. The design of curriculum is also effected from the side of
management and other stakeholders involved in the education and training sector. In this way the
effect of stakeholders can be analysed in related to the curriculum and assessment which are
being used by the health and care teachers and trainers(Barber and et.al., 2020).
TASK 4
4.1 Explain key aspects of policies, codes of practice and guidelines of an organisation.
There are several policies are being developed in the training and education sector. In
order to performing the better functioning of operations, several of conducts and guidelines are
being developed. These are the procedures which are being adopted by the educational institutes
in order to maintain the standard related to the delivery of training and education of students.
There are several policies which are being utilized by the teachers in the education and training.
Some of them include anti bullying policy, education policy, cell phone policies, human resource
policy, work place policy, dress code [policies and many more. For the purpose of maintaining
the better actions in education and training industry, these are the policies which are essential to
follow by the organisation.
Code of conduct is defined as the collection of rules which are essential for the
organisation to follow. Majorly, two kinds of code of conduct has been followed by the institutes
for improving the practices i.e. for the teachers and for the students. The list of code of conduct
is used in the organisation for the purpose of improving the internal procedure of organisation in
most effective and efficient manner(Atkins, and Tummons, 2017).
Several of guidelines are also developed to be followed in the educational institutes in
order to keeping the procedure required through the policies and code of conduct. There are
several sources which provide the guidelines which are crucial for the organisation to follow.
Some of guidelines include government guidelines, safety and security guidelines developed by
the UNICEF.
4.2 Analyse the impact of organizational requirements and expectations on curriculum practice
in own area of specialism.
Some of people who are linked with the organisation have the responsibilities of
performing the functions of organisation. Majorly the overall expectations and requirements of
organisation are being developed on the basis of needs and requirements of individual people in
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the society, need of people related to the health and safety, collective requirements of people,
promotion of equality, diversity within the educational organisations and many more.
All the above mentioned are consider as the several needs and requirements which are
found as crucial for the educational institutes to fulfil through the organisation. These desires
being several changes or modifications in the procedure of organisation, curriculum and the
internal operations. It shows the higher impact of desires and needs over the activities of
organisation related to the development of curriculum in the training and education sector(Afdal
and Afdal, 2019).
TASK 5
5.1 Analyse the quality improvement and quality assurance arrangements of own organisation
There are various standards have been developed in the education and training
organisations, which are found as crucial to follow. So that the organisations can perform their
functions in the best possible manner and provide the education to their students in an effective
and efficient manner. The management of organisation is needed to implement several practices
for the purpose of developing the standards which plays an important role in bringing the
improvement in the system of delivering education to the students or learners. There are several
activities have been determined which may result in bringing the improvement in the in the
quality along with the educational standard as well. Some of practices include quality assurance
and quality improvement as it help the teachers of health and care trainers in delivering the
knowledge and sessions in a proper and effective manner which leads to bringing the
improvement in the educational standard of people. The quality of delivering knowledge of
teachers can be improved through getting the feedback from stakeholders as it help the teachers
in bringing the improvement in the quality of services provided by the teachers(Abdullah and
Chong, 2019). In addition this, constant analysis of performance of teachers also result in the
improvement in the standard of quality of teachers working in the training and education sector.
On the other hand, in the procedure of education, several of considerations are also implemented
which result in bringing the improvement in the knowledge and information which is going to be
delivered to the students of health and care. The internal process of education and training
organisation can be improved through developing the several plans related to the improvement of
quality. Quality assurance is defined as the procedure which is being utilized or implemented
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through the management of educational institutes in order to maintaining the quality of the
services and knowledge delivered to the students of particular specialisation area i.e. health and
care(Lindsey Alley, 2017)(Leitner, Ebner and Ebner, 2019).
The educational system is also getting change because of modifications and regular
updates in the technology(Nguyen and Shah, eds., 2019) . It has been found as crucial for the
management of organisation to analyse the improvement related to the quality of education. They
are also required to take the essential steps. Keeping the appropriate funds which may result in
the fulfilment of needs of each and every individuals. It can also be improved, if all the teachers
who are going to deliver the knowledge related to the health and care will provide the proper
training on regular basis. It help them in gaining and improving the knowledge of teachers
related to particular subject and they will also provide the best knowledge to their students. It
aids to bringing the improvement in the quality of teachers. Below mentioned are the various
measures which are found as essential to be taken by the teachers or management of organisation
for the purpose of enhancing the quality of education:
 Standard of curriculum
 professional standards related to the educational personnel at all the stages.
 Regulatory system which make sure about the accountability of educational
professionals.
From the above analysis, it has been found as important to get the review or feedback from the
stakeholders or the external bodies as it help the teachers in bringing the improvement in the
quality of delivering the knowledge and lectures to the students(O’Flaherty and Liddy, 2018).
5.2 Explanation of the of self-assessment function and self-evaluation and the cycle of quality.
Self-assessment gives opportunity to the learners for evaluating self for knowing the
strengths and knowledge aiding in knowing about the process of learning which will aid them.
The individual is capable of knowing about them fasts and know the aspects of weaknesses and
make efforts by developing the plans for gaining the skills. It is essential for every learner to do
self analysis and know about the criteria which will aid them. In context of health and care
trainer it is compulsory for the learners to analyse the performance performance so they can
make corrections. In future time they will evaluate the performance of the health and care
trainers.
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