Professional body requirements by Deborah Jones https://padlet.com/deborah2_jones/notxwy6j8waw What are the professional body requirements/ constraints within your teaching specialism which create pedagogical challenges? en-us 2016-10-12 05:57:50 UTC 2025-12-20 01:37:18 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Manbag.png 'The Nursing and Midwifery Council require nurse mentors to assess and evaluate student nurses in clinical placement, this accounts for 50% of the nurse training programme. Competencies are based in professional, clinical skills, communication and safety domains. The nursing and midwifery standards state that mentors "Be accountable for confirming that students have met, or not met, the NMC competencies in practice. As a sign-off mentor confirm that students have met, or not met, the NMC standards of proficiency in practice and are capable of safe and effective practice." NMC,2008. A challenge identified, documented and widely discussed in nursing literature is the problem experienced by mentors of “failure to fail ". This is where mentors who evaluate students' clinical competence may feel challenged to fail a student. The reasons given for this are many and complicated according to Kathleen Duffy's research carried out in 2003. Ranging from inexperience, not wanting to let the student down or not wanting to be seen as a failure as a mentor.Recently the "failure to fail" concept arose while working with a mentor. At the time of the evaluation and taking all factors into considerations an assessment decision was reached as a pass.In a post placement debrief and moderation of the documentation the "failure to fail" concept may have surfaced. As a way forward, through reflection, I will use this as a case study to explore further if this is a pedagogical challenge. Reference:Duffy (2003). Failing students: a qualitative study of factors that influence the decisions regarding assessment of students’ competence in practice. ISBN 1-903661-40-4. Accessed 5th October 2016Nursing and Midwifery Council (2008). Standards to support learning and assessment in practice NMC standards for mentors, practice teachers and teachers. London, NMC' deborah2_jones https://padlet.com/deborah2_jones/notxwy6j8waw/wish/130092135 2016-10-12 12:10:53 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah2_jones/notxwy6j8waw/wish/130092135 deborah2_jones https://padlet.com/deborah2_jones/notxwy6j8waw/wish/130092533 'The British Psychological Society,(BPS),requires all Practitioners to be registered. This registration enables them to practice within their chosen specialism.

The members of the association adopt the framework of association, including the directives of the BPS. All members are encouraged to contribute to, ‘new thinking’, that ultimately could become policy of the organisation and be implemented.

Challenges identified within a pedagogical environment, short-term could be frustrating for the practitioner. However, lobbying their division speciality within the BPS, and promoting a change of direction with the appropriate evidence could result in adopting new working that overcomes the pedagogical challenge.

The constraint here could be considered the time it takes for change to be implemented and adopted as policy. However, it could be suggested that the process offers the benefit of the membership of the BPS to be directly involved in the process of policy-making and implementation, across the organisation and not a process of implantation by a select few. Democracy? ? ?'

]]> 2016-10-12 12:12:27 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah2_jones/notxwy6j8waw/wish/130092533 I think one of the constraints within my area of teaching specialism which create pedagogical challenge is the fact that there is a greater demand to learn English and there are not many, either human and /or physical resources available  in the organisation to fulfill the demand and allow the learners to form a social interaction in the new society. Another constraint I observed is coming from the learners themselves not trying hard enough to use English daily and relying on the 2 hours a week to build up their skills. This creates a challenge to me and the colleagues to try hard and look out for strategies  of learning to help the learners to use the target language and vocabulary to maintain the connection between the classroom and daily life. deborah2_jones https://padlet.com/deborah2_jones/notxwy6j8waw/wish/130093763 2016-10-12 12:18:00 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah2_jones/notxwy6j8waw/wish/130093763 christina_neslund https://padlet.com/deborah2_jones/notxwy6j8waw/wish/130997038 Within my current teaching position I have taken on the role of personal tutor for a group of 9 students all of whom fall under the category of SEN and more specifically students with PMLD.   The program in which I teach falls outside of educational boundaries and caters to students who have moved on from college education and transitioned into the 'adult program'. 

Within this program we escape the usual constraints of Ofsted and instead face judgement based around the gaining of funding. Each student undergoes regular reviews involving social workers, care professionals and parents, during review periods and indeed prior to a student joining the program we must prove that our services are 'worth' the amount that is asked for. 
The biggest pedagogical challenge I have found here has not been a challenge set from an outside organisation but from within my setting, a great deal of emphasis within a students funding profile is placed upon a students level of staffing support. Many of my students are funded 1:1 for at least 90% of their taught sessions, this however due to staffing issues has not been the case this term which has made teaching a challenge.

The major frustration I have found whilst working not only within the adult program but within SEN as a whole surrounds the need to provide evidence of progression. For many of our students it is the small daily tasks such as identifying their coat over a strangers coat, to choosing a left symbol over a preferred right hand choice that to us is a massive mile stone in the young persons life but to an outsider seems insignificant within the grand scheme of things. ]]> 2016-10-16 20:35:40 UTC https://padlet.com/deborah2_jones/notxwy6j8waw/wish/130997038