UNIT 2 - Support learning activities 1.1 Describe how a learning support practitioner may contribute to the planning, delivery and review of learning activities. As a teaching assistant you will contribute with the teachers to planning, delivery and review of learning activities. As a teaching assistant time should be made to discuss and review pupils’ work with teachers, this can be formal or informal. Planning, teaching and evaluation follow a cycle which gives structure to the learning process. EVALUATING TEACHING - Supporting the teacher in delivering the plan with a child or group of children.
Use the menu to find the endorsed training package for your industry or the Business Services Training Package. You will find it worthwhile to invest some time in familiarising yourself with the type of information contained within the Training Package. N/A Task 17 AQTF Research the AQTF by going to http://www.ibsa.org.au/content/taa04/aqtf.html. Unable to find the page on the internet for the above. Task 18 You are to select either a workplace task such as changing the toner in the printer and use the method described in this section to demonstrate the task to the learner, You should ask your teacher, trainer or a peer to observe your demonstration and give you feedback.
Building a bank of “what if” scenarios is a valuable tool in building a solid teaching philosophy. * Discussing teaching cases allows teachers to reflect and think critically about a certain problem without actually having to go through the experience. Helping teachers prepare for possible situations that may arise in the classroom, is a huge benefit to teachers. Knowing ahead of time how to respond to a certain situation helps build confidence and reduces anxiety in the decision making process. Part 2 The Case of Jesus Gonzalez a) Key Factors This case is about a first grade student named Jesus Gonzalez, his family, and teacher, Mrs. Kiffen.
At some point you may be asked to work alongside the teacher with their long term plans and activities for the week .PPA may be set aside for this. Following the teaching session the TA and class teacher should reflect on the effectiveness of the teaching and learning activities and the success of the LO. When evaluation is done you must look at whether the children you are working with are able to meet the Lo through the task presented. Below are two tables stage of planning and role of teacher: Page 159 supporting teaching
Final Examination Q1: In your own words summarise the major learning points from the whole of the study programme with particular reference. Supporting the teacher When working in a classroom I should communicate with the teacher before school to make sure I have all resources and equipment are available, usable and ready for the lesson as this give the teacher more valuable teaching time. My major learning points for supporting the teacher are: *Communicating with the teacher *Make sure all resources and equipment are available, useable and ready for the lesson *Understand my role and what my responsibilities involve *Know what is expected of me *Have a good relationship with the teacher *Have good communication skills *Have good listening skills *Have good organisation skills *Be open to new ideas *I should help the teacher implement lesson plans, set achievable targets, set learning objectives and outcomes *Use learning strategies *Evaluate learning activities *Carry out risk assessments *Follow the curriculum *Carry out observations *Follow class room rules *Support children that need extra help *Know all the schools policies and procedures *Keep confidentiality *Use discipline in correct way, in line with the schools polices Supporting the pupil My main learning outcomes for supporting pupils are: *Know the children I work with *Remove barriers that affect their learning *Know the children’s development stages *Be encouraging and use praise *Set realistic and achievable goals *Have the classroom ready to start the lesson *Promote independent learning *Understand children’s social, physical, emotional and educational development *Encourage acceptance of all children *I should know and understand how I can help with: -Signs and symptoms of common childhood illnesses -Emotional distress
Is the responsibility up to the teachers, or ESL paraprofessionals? Do both share responsibilities in teaching ELLs? In top-down discourse, the classroom teachers represent themselves as experts, and the ESL department as supportive partner. The teachers select the curriculum (the vocabulary) and the ESL department uses the activities from the teachers. Yet when confronted with instructional obstacles and time management, the teachers go to the labeling discourse and shift all the responsibility to the ESL department.
Running head: UNWRAPPING THE TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS Unwrapping the Technology Standards Larry Kuykendall Grand Canyon University Instructional Technology EDU 225 Jennifer Taylor September 14, 2011 Unwrapping the Technology Standards Comparison Chart |NETS for Teachers |Master Technology Teacher Standards | |Teachers utilize their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and |The Master Technology Teacher successfully model and relate classroom | |learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance |teaching methodology and curriculum models that support active student | |student learning, creativity, and innovation in both
Danielle Gallagher Unit 303 Support learning activities Outcome 1 Contribute to planning learning activities 1.1 Explain how a learning support practitioner may contribute to the planning, delivery and review of learning activities Although the class teacher is primarily responsible to plan, deliver and review all learning activities for the class, a teaching assistant can work alongside the teacher and make contributions that can improve the teachers plan, alter the delivery to make it more effective for pupil attainment and extend the teachers initial review. “Planning, teaching and evaluation follow a cycle which gives structure to the learning process” and is vital in my role as a teaching assistant. I aim to describe how I aide the teacher to plan and deliver lessons and how I give feedback to the teacher about individual pupils, in order for the teacher make improvements in her planning and to be able to target individual children that are struggling. I will also give an example at the end to show how I effectively assisted in planning, delivery and the review of a lesson. Planning - the teacher will ask her staff to look over her planning and to give an opinion on it, if the staff feel there could be any improvements then they will tell the teacher.
Vygotsky's (1978/1981) social constructivism (SC) theory suggests that teachers can use an alternative instructional method by engaging students with a set of approaches and strategies. Vygotsky’s SC approach reflects on creating a learning setting which, allows students to negotiate meaning through learning by doing to facilitate wireless computing within the classroom (Woo and Lim, 2009). Teacher training and input in their personal view points on technology integration professional learning experiences are essential for constructive changes (So &ump; Kim, 2009). Teacher training and point of views through the social constructivism (SC) theory can create opportunities to provide hands-on learning and enables students to access electronic books, study, review, research or explore through SC concept (Zucker &ump; King, 2009). Ryu, Parsons, Li, Sheng &ump; Javed (2009) found that the antidote to learning, requires referencing prior knowledge to recent experiences, referencing different situations to similar, past situations, and then incorporating what one has learned to the past foundation.
Assignment 1.3 – Explain ways to embed elements of functional skills in your specialist area. The functional skills that I incorporate into my lessons are Numeracy, Literacy and Information and Communication Technology. I include these skills to allow the learners to progress in education, training and in future employment. As the courses I deliver are sport based I plan the literacy skills around the learners taking notes during the lesson, completing worksheets and writing sport session plans this enables the learners to practice their handwriting, spelling, grammar and presentation skills. Seeing as a number of our students prefer to use computers to produce work I take the opportunity to add in the ICT functional skill into the work and tasks they have to complete.