Michael woodhouse
Preparation to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector.
Task 6
Explain the need for keeping records and describe the types of records you maintain.
They are various records I have to keep in my role and below these are listed and a
brief description of each is shown.
Student records.
• Attendance record
These are completed 4 times a day and must be filled in and submitted on time.
• Personal information
These details would have the students, name, address and emergency contact
numbers. This is covered by the DATA Protection act.
• Personal learning plans
These are completed by students and teachers, PLP, S contain such things as
student targets, attendance records, incident reports, student’s reviews and
various other assessment plans and reviews.
Teaching records
• Lesson plans
A lesson plan is a teacher detailed description for an individual lesson and
contains methods of delivery methods and specific goals and timelines
associated to the delivery of the lesson content.
• Schemes of work
A scheme of work basically sets out what a teacher is planning for whole
entirety of the chosen course on a session by session basis.
• Evaluation
Evaluation is the key to the improvement of teaching, if you do not know what
you done and achieved, how can you know how to improve it.
• Assessments (summative and formative)
Assessments are usually completed when one of my students completes a task
I have assigned them or a task that is part of the curriculum .these are called
summative assessments. A formative assessment is going on all the time; its
real purpose is to provide feedback of what students are learning.
• Targets
The students are not only set targets by me but their work based folders set out
the task as...