Theriska Du toit
66372054
TPF2601 Portfolio
Assignment 50
Unique no. 561315
20 October 2020
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SECTION A: BEING A PROFESSIONAL TEACHER [45]
ACTIVITY 1: ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF A TEACHER (9)
Observe all your mentor teachers throughout your teaching practice and identify at
least three roles or responsibilities that you feel were executed well, and explain how
he/she approached these in order to fulfil their duty as a teacher.
Role / Responsibility 1:
The Resource. (1)
Explanation: The educator is a sort of strolling resource focus prepared to offer assistance
if necessary, or give students whatever language they need when performing informative
exercises. The instructor must make her/himself accessible so students can counsel her/him
when it is totally fundamental. As a resource the educator can control students to utilize
accessible resources, for example, the web, for themselves, it unquestionably isn't important
to coddle students, as this may have the drawback of making students dependent on the
instructor. (2)
Role / Responsibility 2:
The Assessor. (1)
Explanation:
The educator accepts this job to perceive how well understudies are performing or how well
they performed. Input and rectification are sorted out and completed. There is an assortment
of ways we can review students; the job of an assessor offers educators a chance to
address students. Be that as it may, in the event that it isn't spoken with affectability and
bolster it could demonstrate counter-profitable to an understudy's confidence and trust in
learning the objective language. (2)
Role / Responsibility 3:
The Organizer. (1)
Explanation:
Perhaps the most troublesome and significant job the educator needs to play. The
achievement of numerous exercises relies upon great association and on the understudies
knowing precisely what they are to do straightaway. Giving guidelines is imperative in this
job just as setting up exercises. The coordinator can likewise fill in as a demonstrator, this
job additionally permits an instructor to get included and connected with students. The
instructor additionally serves to open and perfectly close exercises and furthermore give
content input. (2)
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ACTIVITY 2: ADMINISTRATION (4)
Observe your mentor teacher throughout your 5 weeks teaching practice and list the
various administrative tasks he/she needs to carry out i.e. registration, assessing,
planning, filing of lesson plans, permissions slips, compiling communication to
parents, filling in maintenance request forms etc.
Record attendance: She needs to do the register every morning to see which
learners are absent.
Balance register: Make sure that the register balance with the learners present and
absent.
Make announcements: Tell the learners if there are some important announcements.
Surveys: Hand out and take in any surveys the school need.
Administer money: Collect money if the learners need to pay for something like
school photos.
Report cards: Hand out the report cards each term.
Detention lists: Notify the learners who must sit detention and who are near
detention.
Contact parents: Let the parents know if their children aren’t feeling well or you want
to talk to them about academic. (4)
ACTIVITY 3: ASSESSMENTS (12)
List and describe 4 different types of assessments used.
Assessment 1:
Diagnostic Assessment (as Pre- Assessment) (1)
Explanation:
A variety of evaluation errands that are utilized to decide understudies' degree of
information, aptitudes, understandings toward the start of a course, grade level, unit as well
as exercise. They test the understudies on what they definitely know. These tests permit the
educator to modify the educational plan to address the issues
of the understudies. (2)
Assessment 2:
Formative Assessment. (1)
Explanation:
Formal and casual evaluations that are utilized all through a unit or course of study to screen
understudy progress so instructors can modify their instructional practices to address the
issues of their understudies. (2)
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