Developing, Using and Organising Resources Within a Specialist Area

Unit 506L5 Diploma in Education and Training

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“A human being should not be wasted in doing what forty sheets of paper or two photographs can

do. Just because personal teaching is precious and can do

what books and apparatus cannot, it should be saved for its peculiar

work. The best teacher uses books and appliances as well as his

[sic] own insight, sympathy and magnetism”.

Thorndike 1912 (Chapter 5 )“Teaching and Training in Post Compulsory Education”

Teaching v Learning?

Teaching Resource

• Material, hardware, software or services designed and intended for use by a teacher or trainer to enable, enhance or extend their teaching.

• e.g. whiteboard

Learning Resource

• A student or trainee may use it directly to

compliment their understanding or even

as an alternative to a “traditional” taught

approach.• e.g. gapped handout

Task• Individually, make a list of all the resources

that you have used in the past month…

• Now consider their purpose? What did you use them for?

• Are they a “teaching” resource or a “learning” resource? Is there a difference?