Describing the role, responsibilities and boundaries of the teacher in terms of the teaching/training cycle.
The Teaching/training circle comprises the following stages which I innumerate here with their corresponding roles, responsibilities and boundaries.
Identify Needs
Role:
– Interviewer/ Internal Verifier
Responsibility
-Identify all of the College school legislations
– Finding out all the information regarding your subject and the assisting staff
Boundaries
– No taking of personal details for private use.
Plan and design
Role:
-Curriculum developer/ Administrator
Responsibilities
-Create suitable time-table
– Plan subject delivery with flexibility in mind
-Follow up student absences
Boundaries
-Professional behaviour
Deliver
Role
-Teacher / Personal Tutor
Responsibilities
-Appropriate language
-Appropriate dress
-Follow up of student absences
– Be on time for lessons
Boundaries
-No flirting
-no petting
– no touching
-no favouritism
-no lifts home
-Taking precaution to make the environment public when alone with a student
-No sharing of personal details (phones, addresses) with students.
Assessor
Role
Assessor Marker/Record Keeper
Responsibilities
-Assess and Mark student’s work
-Write Reports for Head of Department and Parent/Guardians for under 19
Boundaries
– No sex with students (see teacher role)
E. Evaluate
Role
– Self Assessor
-Evaluate personal performance as teacher
– Get feedback from the students and manager
– Personal Tutor (leaning from oneself)
Responsibilities
-Monitor Personal Performance
At this stage the teacher is prepared to return to the initial stage.
Roles, Responsibilities and Boundaries.
The chart above demonstrates the variety of roles within a teacher’s job. A role is a position and responsibilities come with it. It is understood that within a teaching institution a teacher’s role is not limited to delivering his/her course material. It is important for the teacher to realise this because the various roles ultimately enhance the activity of teaching within an institution even on a private level. They come with responsibilities and impose boundaries. The Author of EC College Course Work (2012) observes that the teacher is communicator, counsellor and Guide, as well as scholar, administrator, organiser and planner.
Responsibilities are duties which go with every role. The teacher’s initial role is to “support learning and academic/vocational achievement” Wilson (2009) p. 24. The need to support learning therefore brings one to search for all those support values that enhance learning, and here is where his/her responsibilities lie.
The concepts of role, responsibilities and boundaries are interconnected. It is the person who knows what his/her responsibilities are who takes the time to observe the boundaries that are set in place to protect the students entrusted to him/her and themselves. Boundaries are there to protect integrity.