2. Tutor’s Job Description (Generic)
Responsibilities
- Provide course
information and supplementary publicity
- Provide
information and advice to prospective learners ensuring equality of
opportunity
- Establish good
relationships with learners which promote the achievement of learning
- Devise coherent
schemes of work and session plans that meet the needs of learners and have
clearly identified aims and SMART objectives which are shared and
negotiated with the learners
- Carry out
individual initial assessments of learners including learning styles,
standard of English
and maths learning support needs, where applicable. Inform the Centre or Team Manager if
additional resources are required to support disabilities and/or learning
difficulties, taking account of Disability Discrimination Act, and the
Equality Act 2010
- Choose a variety
of teaching and learning methods which are appropriate for the subject
being studied and individual learners following the programme. Ensure learning materials are free from stereotyping
and promote positive images in terms of gender, race and disability
- Devise assessments
which are at an appropriate standard, and assess the learners against the
aims and objectives of the programme and, where necessary, meet awarding
body requirements
- Include a regular
schedule of setting, marking and returning work to learners within agreed
deadlines as appropriate
- Record progress
and achievement, using Individual Learning Plans, and identify future
targets with learners
- Ensure all
necessary administration connected with the course is completed including
course registers and classroom risk
assessments (included physical activity checklists, when appropriate)
- Undertake relevant
Health and Safety, Safeguarding, Prevent and Equality and Diversity
training, timescales as agreed with Centre or Team Manager.
- Implement
organisational Health and Safety, Safeguarding, Prevent and Equality and
Diversity policies, observing regulations and paying particular regard to
the needs of all learners
- Tutors will be
expected to engage in all mandatory training, and provide evidence of other
continuing professional development (CPD)
CPD opportunities
will be provided through Hampshire Achives continuing professional development
(CPD) calendar of events and internal staff development training programme,
this will include activities to further increase the standards of teaching and
learning across the County. All tutors
will be expected to attend mandatory CPD events during the academic year