Unit 5

UNIT-5 ROLES, RESPONSIBILITIES AND RELATIONSHIPS IN LIFE LEARNING

1.1 Summaries key aspect of legislation, regulatory requirements and codes of practices relating to own role and responsibilities.

Introduction to my teaching area just like other areas. You have to follow certain regulations, standards, procedures & i will be discussing them as follows :

1.) Efficiency and effectiveness – The purpose of efficiency & effectiveness is to obtain maximum value of resources available from the school or college to achieve high level of outcomes such as avoiding wastage of school resources & using school or college property effectively.

2.) Accountability- Teachers are accountable for the management of class & whole school/college for any under achievements by the students/damages to school properties or resources & also to their own job employment. So the teachers should encourage students to do high standards & value learning with teachers putting students learning more than their personal interests.

3.) Fairness and intensity- Teachers are in position of believe & trust of students. They manage classrooms & have access to school information; they can make decisions on behalf of students.

This trust of teachers requires their conducting themselves with honesty & farness to each student. They can act with fairness & integrity when they avoid conflict between private interest & professional responsibility. Teachers should not take advantage of their position & should act with impartiality.

4.) Responsiveness to the government and needs to public- Teacher must provide same level of professionalism in administration of delivery of government services. They should implement high quality educational services with advancing student learning & follow government rules for promoting education.

5.) Service to the public – As public service teachers are subject to ethics & public service code of conduct. They should work in partnership with parents & carers, acting against discrimination & there are certain acts which have to be abided. These are :

Health & Safety Act 1974- The health & safety act at work is the responsibility of every employer to ensure reasonably good practice for health ,safety and welfare of their employee, employer have duty of care to ensure that their work, premises & equipment are free of risk by ensuring they conduct risk assessment at all times.
As teacher I always ensure that my classroom environment is safe for learners. Every room must have first aid box. If any learner is injured or have an accident whether minor or major, there should maintain hygiene discrimination act.

1. Equality Diversity Act 2010-
This term refers to differences in values, attitudes, cultures, beliefs, attitude of each & every individual in any groups of people .In any diverse workplace , it is important that all members or staff are treated equally. The main benefits of this will be that it will help to unite the work place, which will be motivating, effective & productive.

As a teacher I will provide learner the resource, ensuring effective teaching approaches, learning styles to meet the need of the learners. It is also my responsibility as a teacher to treat every learner equal fairly without discrimination.

Equality & diversity- This refers to the differences in values, race, culture, gender, age, beliefs, culture, skills & life experience of each individual in any group of people. When diversity word is used in contrast or addition to equality. Whereas equality means opening of access to every learner to full participation in all services of students. It is about creating a fairer society, where everyone can participate and has opportunity to fulfil their potential by eliminating prejudice and discrimination.

Data protection and confidentiality Act 1998 –
Data protection law in the UK defines the processing of data on living people with their identity. It is the main legislation in UK that governs the protection of personal data by law, that it cannot be leaked, shared or compromised by anyone. Any breaches of data protection must be dealt with punishable offences.
As a teacher I have always respected confidentiality & protection of data & abided by the act, because it creates a barrier that data must not be shared or disclosed to anyone or misused for any purpose, so any documents given to me by learners including initial assessment, I always locked it out of sight from any person given their confidentiality.

Discrimination act 1955-
Discrimination means treating a person or group differently or less favourably than other on basis of their races, gender, colour, age, culture, beliefs, sexual orientation etc.