Introduction to Teaching and Learning

Assignment 1 – Introduction to Teaching and Learning
Write a profile for one of your learners.   Include in your assignment:
  * How you carried out the initial assessment and identified learning needs and barriers to learning for that specific learner.
  * How you differentiate your teaching to accommodate the needs of this learner to ensure an inclusive learning environment.
  * An evaluation of the resources you used showing how technology is, or could be, used to support your learners progress.
Write a profile for one of your learners.   Include in your assignment:
  * How you carried out the initial assessment and identified learning needs and barriers to learning for that specific learner.
  * How you differentiate your teaching to accommodate the needs of this learner to ensure an inclusive learning environment.
  * An evaluation of the resources you used showing how technology is, or could be, used to support your learners progress.

Wallace (2011) cites that it is important to consider learning activities that are accessible to all learners when planning and preparing any lesson, thus avoiding any learner feeling excluded, either directly or by implication.
I agree that no student should be made to feel an outsider in a teaching group or conspicuous by their difference.   This assignment looks at how initial assessments are carried out to identify their learning needs and barriers.   My student group are 16-24 year old males with mixed ability,   I will be using a 16 year old student who receives learning support as my case study, and will show I differentiate my teaching to accommodate his needs, ensuring he works in an all-inclusive environment.   I will also evaluate the resources I use to show how technology supports his learning progress.
Initial student assessment is carried out by the Program Manager during the application interview, and continues throughout the student’s college life.   I agree with this constant process as it is...