Diploma in Education and Training (DET)
Assignment
Y/650/6839-Teaching in a Specialist Area
Scenario:
You are recently appointed as lecturer to a new college that has the capacity to expand and bring transformation to life. A subject specialist is required to deliver and create motivation for the students. This is a good institution with a diverse class profile. This is your first contact in the new school, and the management staff is readily available to support you in all aspects of the school’s policy and expectations. You are responsible to demonstrate excellent subject knowledge and to deliver the course with respect to the quality assurance framework. You should be able to demonstrate creativity in your delivery. You also expected to assess the students to reflect their skill enhancement and development.
Task 1: Report
You are required to demonstrate understanding of the aims and philosophy of education and training in your specialist area. In order to do this, you are required to;
- Explain key aims of education and training in your own specialist area
- Analyze philosophical issues relating to education and training in your own specialist area
Task 2: Report
You are required to respond to the following questions with regards to qualifications and programmes in the subject areas;
- Describe the aims and structure of key qualifications in own specialist area
- Describe the aims and structure of learning programmes in own specialist area
- Explain how own approach to planning and preparation for the delivery of a learning programme in own specialist area enables its aims to be met
Task 3: Report
You should respond with the focus on relating inclusiveness and the curriculum in your subject area.
- Analyse the inclusiveness of own approach to the planning and preparation of a learning programme in own specialist area
- Explain how own approach to the planning and preparation of a learning programme in own specialist area takes account of key curriculum issues, including the role of new and emerging technologies
Task 4: Report
You are to demonstrate your understanding of how to use resources for inclusive teaching and learning in your specialist area.
- Analyse ways in which teaching and learning resources, including new and emerging technologies, meet the individual needs of learners in own specialist area
- Analyse the inclusiveness of own use of teaching and learning resources in a specialist area
Task 5: Report
You are to be able to show that you can work with others within a specialist area to develop your own practice.
- Liaise with others within a specialist area to develop own practice
- Review the impact of liaison with other teachers and trainers within own specialist area on own practice
Task 6 Report
Demonstrate your ability to evaluate, improve and update your own knowledge and skills in your specialist subject area.
- Review the effectiveness of own knowledge and skills in a specialist area
- Identify own strengths and areas for improvement in relation to practice in a specialist area
- Identify opportunities to improve and update own knowledge and skills in a specialist area
