Worksheet 2 2.1 Describe roles and responsibilities of school governors, senior management team, other statutory roles (eg. SENCO), teachers, support staff | Roles | Responsibilities | School governors | Promote effective ways of teaching and learning, help raise pupils’ standards of achievement. | Performance of the school, planning school’s future direction, selecting the head teacher, to make decisions on the schools budget and staffing including the performance management policy. Making sure the Curriculum is well taught. Deciding how the school can encourage pupils’ spiritual, moral and cultural development | Senior management team | Work with the Headmaster which shares the responsibilities for all aspects of school leadership and management.
Ethnicity Studies have shown that educational attainment is lower for most ethnic groups compared to those of White British Children. Despite the positive impact of early years education, it is known that fewer children from ethnic minority groups participate in formal pre-school childcare, compared with white children (Fitzgerald, et al., 2002). Strand (1999) has show that pupils with early education had higher attainment than those with no early education. In Early year’s non- white children are under-represented. Mothers from ethnic minority groups are more likely to stay at home with their children.
They are able to manipulate the education system to their advantage which means their children have a better chance at doing well in school. Disconnected-local choosers and semi-skilled choosers are working-class parents who have a lack of cultural capital and therefore their child’s academic progress suffers as they are usually sent to ‘local’ schools which they aren’t necessarily best suited for. Children who have cultural capital also have an elaborated code (wider vocabulary) which gives them an advantage at school as it is the code used by teachers and in textbooks. The elaborated code is typically used by middle class and helps with their academic achievement. Children with a lack of cultural capital are more likely to use the restricted code (limited vocabulary) which disadvantages them at school as they feel excluded and are therefore less successful.
The level of student engagement largely determines the efficiency and development of the school. It is therefore important to analyze the motivations that significantly affect the process of involving students in school activities. Study has become one of the tasks of the position estimate, reflecting the level of interests, needs. motivations of students. It was interesting to learn that, according to the data, about half of the students practically involved in the school activities, schoolwork had become a necessity of life.
They are also responsible for the education policy, and their role as national government to emend and changes and development within this policy. School league tables are another important role for the national government. These are followed by all school across the UK. Any projects within education that need funding or further research are a responsibly for the national government. The national curriculum is followed by all schools across the UK and it is the national governments responsible to monitor and update this.
It raised awareness of how opportunities would benefit the support staff and, in turn, teachers and schools. The agreement was phased out over three years and would help schools implement contractual changes and reform wider workforce practices. Today, there are a range of additional adults in the classroom with roles as diverse as a classroom assistant to qualified Teaching Assistants. Recent research (General Teaching Council for England, 2010) has shown that the deployment of additional adults in the classroom not only benefits Special Educational Needs (SENs) but also assists the teacher by taking on some of the workload, such as administration duties and providing increased individual attention to certain pupils. There are various roles for additional adults in the classroom including parent helpers, nursery nurses within nursery and reception classes, learning mentors, bilingual assistants, speech therapists, teaching assistants and higher level teaching assistants.
Teaching is one of the most important professions in the world because the future of the world can be determined by the future life of young learners. This makes the relationship between the teachers and students a crucial issue. Some teachers or parents label the children as good or bad individuals. Dweck, Davidson, Nelson, and Enna (1978) maintain, “the performance of children is affected by the way teachers give them feedback about their performance” (as cited in Mwania & Muola, 2013, p. 2). The students’ cultural/socioeconomic status, previous academic achievements, evaluations received from the welfare agencies or psychological clinics are some elements that can cause a teacher to make a set of expectations leading to materialize those expectations/labels (Nygard, 2011).
Classroom Behavior Management Guidelines for Success INTRODUCTION How do the most effective teachers… • manage behavior in their multi-ethnic, multi-cultural classrooms? • develop and use classroom rules and routines? • use classroom consequences that work? • design positive behavioral supports for challenging behaviors? • avoid career- and health-threatening frustration and burnout?
Joshua Hannan Freshmen Composition 12/16/2012 The Truth about the Homeschool Environment Over ninety percent of school-aged children in the United States attend public schools. Less than five percent of the remaining ten percent are homeschooled (Ray B. D., 2011). Because many believe that homeschooled children are put at a social and academic disadvantage, many desire homeschooling to be strictly regulated or even banned. In reality, many studies show that homeschooled students tend to excel in these areas, and the desired public school “socialization” can actually prevent children from reaching their full potential. Despite opposing ideas that suggest parents don’t have the qualifications or resources to successfully educate their children and are pursuing home education only to avoid opposing values, research show the positive social, emotional, and psychological development of homeschoolers; there are, in fact, many public school parents that would benefit greatly by embracing some of the characteristics of homeschooling that create such a positive learning atmosphere.
Running Head: DIRECT ASSISTANCE TO TEACHERS Direct Assistance to Teachers Teresa McNair Grand Canyon University: EDA 5551 May 9, 2012 Direct Assistance to Teachers “Direct assistance to teachers is one of the crucial elements of a successful school” (Glickman, Gordon, & Ross-Gordon, 2010, p. 288). Direct assistance provides one on one support which is necessary to promote the attainment of knowledge, interpersonal and technical skills needed by our teachers to be efficient in the classroom instruction and management. Within our educational organizations today, clinical supervision and peer coaching are currently two of the most popular forms of direct assistance used. Within today’s educational organizations, many changes are taking place which now puts majority of the responsibility on administrators. With this amount of accountability, administrators must ensure the academic success of their students through the effective use of supervisory practices.