Inter-professionalWorking
COPY OF THE TASK
TASK 1
Student teachers must demonstrate an awareness of barriers to learning, recognising when to seek further advice in relation to all learners’ needs
(Sandard for Provisional Registration with GTCS, benchmark 3.1.4)
Ask your mentor (or another teacher in your placement school, if your mentor indicates that this would be more appropriate) about two instances when he or she had to seek advice in relation to a learner’s needs. Taking care to protect the privacy of all the individuals and organisations involved (by referring to them as school A, learner B, classroom teacher C, etc), for each instance note the answer to each of the following questions.
Expected length: two sentences per question (one sentence for each instance) or up to 200 words for the whole task, i.e. 200 words for both instances, NOT 200 words for each instance.
What prompted the teacher to seek advice?
Who was the advice sought from?
What was the advice and how was it implemented?
Reflect on what you learnt from this task and note below two points which have helped you better understand when to seek advice in relation to learners’ needs and who to seek advice from.
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TASK 2
Student teachers must demonstrate an ability to work effectively in partnership in order to promote learning and wellbeing.
(Standard for Provisional Registration with GTCS, benchmark 3.1.5)
Such partnership working may take place in the classroom, in the school, or in the wider learning community, and involves working co-operatively with teaching and non teaching staff, parents, and partner agencies.
Ask your mentor (or another teacher in your placement school, if your mentor indicates that this would be more appropriate) about two instances when he or she has worked in partnership with another professional in order to promote the learning and wellbeing of a child or a group of children or the whole class. Taking care to protect the privacy of all the individuals and organisations involved (by referring to them as school A, learner B, classroom teacher C, etc), for each instance note the answer to each of the following questions.
Expected length: two sentences per question (one sentence for each instance) or up to 200 words for the whole task, i.e. 200 words for both instances, NOT 200 words for each instance.
What was the aim of this work? E.g. to support a child or a group of children; to raise the awareness of the whole class about an issue or topic such as healthy eating, road safety, etc.; to deliver a lesson to the whole class; etc.
What planning/preparation was required?
What form did this partnership working take? E.g. after consulting with the class teacher, the other professional worked with a learner on a one-to-one basis; after consulting with the class teacher, the other professional worked with a group of learners; the other professional and the class teacher planned a lesson/activity or a series of lessons/activities that the other professional/the class teacher/both delivered to a group of learners/the whole class; the other professional advised the class teacher on how to support a learner or a group of learners but was not involved directly in the provision of the support; etc.
What was the outcome of this partnership working? E.g. increased concentration, participation, etc.; improved behaviour; increased knowledge and understanding of a topic, issue, etc.; skill development; etc.
Reflect on what you learnt from this task and note below two points which have helped you better understand partnership working in order to promote learning and wellbeing in the primary school.
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TASK 3
Ask your mentor (or another teacher in your placement school, if your mentor indicates that this would be more appropriate) to tell you what, based on his/her experiences, s/he considers to be:
• the reasons why inter-professional working in education is necessary
• theskills required for effective inter-professional working in education
• thefactors that promote effective inter-professional working in education
• potential barriers to inter-professional working in education and ways to overcome these barriers
• ways to improve inter-professional working in education
Note the answers in the space below. Expected length: up to 500 words for the whole task, i.e. 500 words for all the answers, not500 words for each answer.
