Boundaries In Teaching

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2.1 Analyse the boundaries between the teaching role and other professional roles (Francis and Gould, 2009:10) “Professionalism requires us to maintain appropriate standards and fulfil our responsibilities to learners, institutions and colleagues. This is achieved by setting professional and personal boundaries which will enable us to be clear about what our limits are and what our professional role involves.” Professional boundaries The teacher/trainers do not have the knowledge, skills or admin to solve some problems. Especially those outside of that the teacher/train can deal with Professional boundaries could include: Resources Professional External Broken Equipment Teacher from another profession Administration…show more content…
As a teacher/trainer it is important not to touch hands on the students they could easily be in swimming costumes. This can mean not to touch the student, but to talk students through the skill. Touching a student can be considered a breach of their human rights. Employer HSE cannot tell the employer what provision should make for first aid and lifeguarding. An employer is best placed to understand the exact nature of your there workplace or facility and decide what is needed to provide. First aid and lifeguarding provision must be ‘adequate and appropriate in the circumstances to the activities that are taking place. This means that the employer must provide sufficient first aid, lifeguards, equipment (first aid kit rescue equipment etc.), facilities and personnel at all times. In order to decide what provision you need to make the employer should undertake a needs assessment. This assessment should consider the circumstances of your workplace, workforce and the hazards and risks that may be present. The findings will help decide what arrangements that are needed to put in place. In assessing needs,…show more content…
If one takes the approach of trying to memories lists of facts of how to deal with lifeguard situations the information becomes more difficult to absorb and less likely to be retained. Context can help provide a more intuitive framework for lifeguards skills, whether it is as simple as telling a story that can be recalled if and when relevant or even if it helps to understand why certain techniques are used in lifeguarding situations. Even allowing the students to tell a story to give them involvement in the group and using their knowledge. Remembering that reason why we do something specific is much simpler to remember, especially for a student that has never taken part in any sort of lifeguarding course

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