Full Description
An accessible and up to date text on teaching and supporting adult learners, aimed at both student teachers and experienced practitioners. It explores teaching adult learners within a traditional further education (FE) context but also working with those adult learners on Higher Education (HE) courses taught within FE.
Adult learners have a distinct set of needs and challenges which can include issues of self confidence, fear of technology, time management and financial constraints, and which may not always be fully recognised by educational practitioners or institutions. Teachers and student stories are used throughout this book to analyse learner needs and motivations, highlight possible barriers to learning and explore strategies for support.
This publication enables those teaching adult learners to gain an understanding of the difficulties that students may experience while developing their own professional practice in order to create effective, focused and inclusive teaching strategies for this group.
Contents
Introduction: Why we have written the book and who we are ? How to use the book. Part One; Understanding your learners Chapter one: Contextualisation Chapter two: Internal motivation Chapter Three: External motivation Chapter Four: Student and teacher stories Part Two: Inclusive strategies to create a supportive learning experience Chapter Five: Practicalities: the nuts and bolts of teaching Chapter Six: Technologies : how they can help, how they can hinder. Chapter Seven:Building relationships Part Three: Pulling it all together Chapter Eight: Detailed scenarios for analysis which will encompass all the above content Glossary of terms eg. some definitions of inclusion, on-line learning, etc References Index
