Teaching Adults

Teaching Adults

by Amanda Hayes
Teaching Adults

Teaching Adults

by Amanda Hayes

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Overview

This is a survival guide to teaching adults in FE. Amanda Hayes places students at the heart of teaching and learning and provides readers with practical strategies to help them create a stimulating and effective learning environment in college, workplace and community venues. A wide range of issues are covered including: catering for different learning styles, managing learner's expectations, promoting diversity and social inclusion, learning in the workplace and dealing with punctuality and retention. A variety of approaches are presented from which the reader can develop effective teaching and support strategies for their own situation and ensure that their adult students successfully gain academic and vocational skills, as well as self confidence.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826487070
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 12/19/2006
Series: Essential FE Toolkit
Pages: 158
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Amanda Hayes is Vice Principal of Kensington and Chelsea FE College, UK. She has written extensively on issues in FE and regularly runs in-service training programmes for governors, managers and lecturers on best practice.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. What Makes Adult Learners Different? 2. Making the Curriculum Fit 3. Be Realistic! 4. Motivate Them! 5. Equality and Diversity 6. A Holistic Approach 7. Into the Workplace 8. Branching Out 9. Keeping them Interested 10. The Next Step Appendices and Bibliography Links to Other Series Publications

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