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.
In this respect, the ultimate aim is to enable learners to understand how to take responsibility for their own development. Teachers can do this by planning and preparing teaching and learning activities that take account of the needs and well-being of individual learners as well as groups of learners. Some key aspects of a role as a teacher may be: carrying out initial and/or diagnostic assessments; clear communication with your learners, other professionals and stakeholders; promoting appropriate behaviour and respect for others; identifying and meeting individual learners’ needs; being aware of the support mechanisms available; being organised; being reflective, which means learning from successes as well as mistakes. What are my responsibilities as a teacher? As a teacher, my primary responsibility is to ensure that learners are enrolled onto the correct course, in terms of meeting their needs, abilities and aspirations.
Teachers need direction in order to meet academic proficiencies and to keep student’s interest (Laureate Education, Inc., 2010). After exploring several learning theories and strategies, my own teaching practices are most often modeled by several strategies and learning theories. The Constructivism Theory resonates in some of the techniques I am using in the classroom. Reflecting on student activities and the design my lessons ; I find students are most often engaged in learning activities that are student driven and lead to students constructing their own conclusions. Student often work at stations and learn through team building and planned movement.
If you are not part of the planning you can still speak to the teacher about what will be happening and offer ideas and suggestions of your own. 1.1 continued Role of teacher Role of teaching assistant • To be responsible for planning and preparing to the National or Early Years Curriculum • To plan and prepare work alongside the teacher • To teach pupils according to their educational needs • To support learning activities • To access, record and report on the development, progress and attainment of pupils • To assess/evaluate children’s work as directed by the teacher • To take responsibility for all other adults within
The leaders are the ones who have the ultimate say in how things will run. While the symbolic frame provides a sense of community, it can also cause tension when new members are brought into a team of veteran teachers. These new teachers must learn how to function within this frame and if they have any new ideas to share concerning the symbolic frame, veteran members may appear hesitant. What were the most valuable elements you learned from the Politcal Frame Wiki? How can you apply what you have learned?
Quite often a TA is responsible for supervising the pupils at playtimes, on school outings, or just generally in the classroom and also offering additional support to the teaching staff in all areas. A TAs list of duties can be quite varied depending on the school, staff and what is expected. The Teacher The teacher’s role is to be in complete control of their class, preparing lessons, and supervising the staff/visitors in the classroom. A teacher will prepare individual pupil targets and give direction to other staff in the class room. When disciplinary action needs to be taken normally the teacher in charge
In this write-up, I will seek to explain the ways in which I could establish ground rules with learners, which strengthens behaviour and respect for others. In doing this, I will be explaining what ground rules are and why they are necessary. How best they can be established and also ensure that students take ownership of rules by putting responsibility on them. Ground rules can be defined as terms which govern the working relationship between the school/teacher and its learners. According to Jo Budden “good classroom management depends a lot on how you establish ground rules at the beginning of the course”.
Differentiation: When providing differentiation in the classroom the teachers provide instruction to meet or exceed each individual student. Differentiation does not mean you are watering down the content it means that you are providing instruction based on the different learning styles in your classroom. When implementing differentiation in the classroom it has to be organized and planned out if its not it will not be successful. Having this component assures that the teacher is organized and prepared for this unit.
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