Work Based Learning Essay
PLCC6002
In this piece of writing I am going to be comparing work-based learning to that of learning in schools. I will be looking at what is similar and where they differ from one another, in doing so I will come across the pros and cons of work-based learning as well as that of school learning.
Firstly I will introduce my non-QTS placement; I have been working in a primary school mainly with the early year’s class, reception. My role in the classroom has been that of a classroom assistant working with the teacher by helping sort out anything from work sheets to supervising certain task with the children. This has been a major change as everything is done so different to secondary school which I expected but at the same time it still took …show more content…
I found this to be true in work based learning as a lot of what I was learning was by being a part of and performing activities within the working environment. The only major difference I found between work based learning and school learning is that to start everything off I needed to be told what to do first and a lot of the times the way I was to do something needed to suit others so I felt there was less freedom in my learning to find alternate ways in many areas where as in school based learning during lectures I always felt being trained as teachers we looked at the many different ways to teach in order to suit a verity of pupils such as teaching to the different learning styles. An example of this is the use of VARK that uses the four suggested areas, that not only pupils learning styles fall into but a teachers teaching style also falls into, which derive from Fleming and Mills, 1992.
Over all the main difference between the two is that work based learning relies heavily on learning as you go, using the idea that you retain more information by doing something rather than hearing about it. Which in my case I feel is true, as the longer I work in this role the more comfortable in my knowledge and ability. Then when I am asked to do something new although I do feel like I have stepped out of my comfort zone I find myself more and more capable of handling every situation with every day spent putting what I learn in to
In this piece of writing I am going to be comparing work-based learning to that of learning in schools. I will be looking at what is similar and where they differ from one another, in doing so I will come across the pros and cons of work-based learning as well as that of school learning.
Firstly I will introduce my non-QTS placement; I have been working in a primary school mainly with the early year’s class, reception. My role in the classroom has been that of a classroom assistant working with the teacher by helping sort out anything from work sheets to supervising certain task with the children. This has been a major change as everything is done so different to secondary school which I expected but at the same time it still took …show more content…
I found this to be true in work based learning as a lot of what I was learning was by being a part of and performing activities within the working environment. The only major difference I found between work based learning and school learning is that to start everything off I needed to be told what to do first and a lot of the times the way I was to do something needed to suit others so I felt there was less freedom in my learning to find alternate ways in many areas where as in school based learning during lectures I always felt being trained as teachers we looked at the many different ways to teach in order to suit a verity of pupils such as teaching to the different learning styles. An example of this is the use of VARK that uses the four suggested areas, that not only pupils learning styles fall into but a teachers teaching style also falls into, which derive from Fleming and Mills, 1992.
Over all the main difference between the two is that work based learning relies heavily on learning as you go, using the idea that you retain more information by doing something rather than hearing about it. Which in my case I feel is true, as the longer I work in this role the more comfortable in my knowledge and ability. Then when I am asked to do something new although I do feel like I have stepped out of my comfort zone I find myself more and more capable of handling every situation with every day spent putting what I learn in to