Contribute to the planning and evaluation of teaching and learning
Overview
Who is this unit for?
This unit is for those who help teachers to plan and evaluate teaching and
learning activities.
What is this unit about?
This unit is about helping the teacher to plan how teaching and learning activities will be implemented, including your own role in supporting the activities, and sharing your views and opinions with the teacher about how well the activities achieved the learning objectives.
The teaching and learning activities may be for individual pupils, groups of pupils, or the whole class. The teaching and learning activities may be delivered in the classroom or any setting where teaching and learning takes place such as field studies, educational visits, extended hours provision and study support arrangements.
This unit contains two elements:
1. Contribute to the planning of teaching and learning activities
2. Contribute to the evaluation of teaching and learning activities
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
Contribute to the planning of teaching and learning activities
P1 clarify and confirm with the teacher your understanding of the teaching and learning objectives of the activities and how success is to be measured
P2 give constructive and timely feedback on ideas and options being explored
P3 share your own ideas on pupils' learning needs and ways of meeting these
P4 offer realistic and constructive suggestions as to the support you can provide, taking account of any particular strengths and weaknesses in your expertise and experience which could affect the plans being made
P5 discuss and agree your role in delivering the teaching and learning activities when working alone and when working in partnership with the teacher
P6 bring the teacher's attention to any difficulties you foresee in delivering the planned teaching and learning activities as required
P7 plan your time to meet your responsibilities for delivering the planned teaching and learning activities and make effective use of allocated time
Contribute to the evaluation of teaching and learning activities
P8 express a realistic and fair view on the success of the teaching and learning activities taking account of the agreed success measures
P9 take account of the contexts within which the teaching and learning activities took place when offering comments upon it
P10 identify and share information on the strengths and weaknesses of the activities in a constructive manner
P11 offer realistic and constructive suggestions for improvements to the activities and your role in supporting them
P12 deal with any differences of opinion in a way that maintains effective working relationships with colleagues
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
K1 the relationship between your own role and the role of the teacher within the learning environment
K2 the role and responsibilities of yourself and others in planning, implementing and evaluating teaching and learning activities
K3 your role and responsibilities for supporting pupils' learning and the implications of this for the sort of support you can provide
K4 the school policies for inclusion and equality of opportunity, and the implication of these for how you work with pupils
K5 the relevant school curriculum and age-related expectations of pupils in the subject/curriculum area and age range of the pupils with whom you are working
K6 how children learn and the implications of this for planning teaching and learning activities
K7 any particular learning needs and learning styles of the pupils concerned and how these may affect the planned teaching and learning activities
K8 the value of different learning contexts (e.g. indoors, outdoors, visits)
K9 the principles underlying effective communication, planning and collaboration
K10 your experience and expertise in relation to supporting learning activities and how this relates to the planned activities
K11 your strengths and weaknesses in relation to supporting different types of learning
K12 the importance of effective time management and how to achieve this
K13 how to give feedback in a constructive manner and in a way that ensures that working relationships are maintained
Scope/range
Scope Performance
Scope Knowledge
Values
Behaviours
Skills
Glossary
Contexts
the factors that need to be taken into account when evaluating teaching and learning activities, for example:
1. the relevant curriculum framework
the age and stage of development of the pupils
any additional needs of the pupils involved in the learning activities
the learning environment/setting
Difficulties potential barriers and hindrances to implementing the planned teaching and learning activities. Difficulties could relate to:
1. learning materials, e.g. availability, cost, quality
2. time, e.g. timetable restrictions, your contractual hours
3. learning environment/setting, e.g. space, facilities, potential distractions or disruptions
4. your role and expertise, e.g. your job description and requirements for supporting particular pupils, your subject knowledge
Evaluation
an assessment of how well the teaching and learning activities achieved their objectives
Partnership working
working with the teacher to support teaching and learning, e.g. in whole-class plenary sessions
Planning
deciding with the teacher what you will do, when, how and with which pupils, to ensure that planned teaching and learning activities are implemented effectively
Plans
plans may relate to a single lesson or span a number of lessons, e.g. project plans, scheme of work. The plan may be recorded in writing or just agreed verbally between you and the teacher
Success measures
the criteria against which the teaching and learning activities are evaluated.
Success measures could relate to:
1. the impact on individual or groups of pupils
2. coverage of the curriculum
3. individual learning targets
Teaching and learning activities
the teaching and learning activities planned by the teacher for individual pupils, groups of pupils and the whole class
Links To Other NOS
TDASTL1 Provide support for learning activities
TDASTL8 Use information and communication technology to support pupils' learning
TDASTL18 Support pupils' learning activities
TDASTL23 Plan, deliver and evaluate teaching and learning activities under
the direction of a teacher
TDASTL27 Support implementation of the early years curriculum
TDASTL29 Observe and promote pupil performance and development TDASTL34 Support gifted and talented pupils
This unit and TDASTL18 together cover the responsibilities of those who contribute to the planning, delivery and evaluation of teaching and learning activities. However TDASTL18 can be used separately where there is no involvement in planning and evaluation, e.g. for cover supervision.
TDASTL23 is designed for those who independently plan, deliver and evaluate teaching and learning activities for individual pupils or small groups of pupils under the direction of a teacher, where the teacher is present or close by and remains in overall charge of the whole class.