The Role of the Teacher in Planning, Teaching and Assessment

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Research the teacher’s role in developing planning, teaching and assessment methods This assignment will look in detail at the areas of planning, teaching and assessment, whilst looking at learning theory in particular the works of Piaget and Bandura’s Social learning theory, and the cycle of learning that takes place within the primary classroom. Planning Planning is informed through previous assessment, as will be discussed further into this assignment, and guides a teacher in the learning for his/her class. The act of planning is a combination of the objects from the long and medium term plans as well the teachers personal reflections on how the previous learning went as O’Hara ( 2008:167) states ‘An absence of effective planning can have serious consequences for teaching and learning. It can lead both to teacher inefficiency and ineffectiveness in the classroom and to learning that is, at best, patchy and uncoordinated.’ For example, whilst on placement I was asked to cover a teacher who would be absent for three weeks, and teach her group subtraction, which to my knowledge they had never encountered before, my initial reflection was that I need to adapt my intended plan to re-cover the subtraction again the next day, which was confirmed whilst I was marking the work the children had undertaken. Being flexible with planning is a skill that all teachers need as my own experience proved as I had planned a series of lesson that would become more complex for the children to help build their knowledge, but had to adapt it to suit the learning of the children involved as supported by Tassoni (:352) who states ‘Allow for spontaneity, such as the rare snowfall or the visit of a parent with a new sibling. Do not discourage children if they bring in something to share that does not fit in with the curriculum topic (e.g. a child brings in a dried wasps’
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