Roles, Responsibilities and Functions of a Tutor
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Roles, Responsibilities and Functions of a Tutor
A tutor of any subject should be professional, an expert in what they teach, and above all posses excellent communication skills. These three objectives will lead to teaching success for the tutor and learning success for the student.
My current role is that of skills tutor for a organisation. Within this role I will be responsible for the learning and development of young adults from deprived backgrounds, as well as people with learning difficulties and behaviour problems, . The aim of this scheme is to educate the students with skills which will help them to create a successful career path for their future.
The key to success in my role of skills tutor is decisive use of the five inter-linked stages of the teaching/ training cycle. Firstly I need to identify the needs of my students. To discover these I would need to assess the students individually by issuing them with a questionnaire containing questions such as qualifications to date, literacy skill level and any possible language barrier. With the results I would be able to determine who needs support on which areas, which would ensure each student had a fair and equal opportunity to learn. It would be important not to intimidate the student with these questions and to ensure information derived would be kept confidential.
The next stage of the cycle is to plan and design the learning process for my students. This would begin with a detailed lesson plan analysing the aims and objectives of the subject. From this I would construct a schedule ensuring the time frame was adequate for each section. Other points to include would be health and safety implications of that subject matter and the decision to which form of learning would be best for the subject type and for the students. For example in a bricklaying lesson, planning the lesson to be completely Auditory style wouldn’t be nearly as effective as some visual leaching followed by kinaesthetic...
A tutor of any subject should be professional, an expert in what they teach, and above all posses excellent communication skills. These three objectives will lead to teaching success for the tutor and learning success for the student.
My current role is that of skills tutor for a organisation. Within this role I will be responsible for the learning and development of young adults from deprived backgrounds, as well as people with learning difficulties and behaviour problems, . The aim of this scheme is to educate the students with skills which will help them to create a successful career path for their future.
The key to success in my role of skills tutor is decisive use of the five inter-linked stages of the teaching/ training cycle. Firstly I need to identify the needs of my students. To discover these I would need to assess the students individually by issuing them with a questionnaire containing questions such as qualifications to date, literacy skill level and any possible language barrier. With the results I would be able to determine who needs support on which areas, which would ensure each student had a fair and equal opportunity to learn. It would be important not to intimidate the student with these questions and to ensure information derived would be kept confidential.
The next stage of the cycle is to plan and design the learning process for my students. This would begin with a detailed lesson plan analysing the aims and objectives of the subject. From this I would construct a schedule ensuring the time frame was adequate for each section. Other points to include would be health and safety implications of that subject matter and the decision to which form of learning would be best for the subject type and for the students. For example in a bricklaying lesson, planning the lesson to be completely Auditory style wouldn’t be nearly as effective as some visual leaching followed by kinaesthetic...