Teaching and learning

There are a variety of ways you train and teach adults and deciding on which method is most appropriate for whom is a key factor in successful employer engagement.

E-learning has many advantages for working with employers. The e-learning approach is recognised as a tool that can accommodate learners working remotely in the workplace and can be flexible with levels of skills and knowledge. It can, of course, simulate ‘real work’ scenarios where learners can test knowledge, decisions and outcomes in a safe yet challenging environment. The wide range of abilities and experiences of learners in employer-facing work demands a variety of imaginative approaches to teaching, training and learning. The active involvement of all learners to enhance learning is critical to the overall success of the employee. In fact e-learning can enable you to further support and enhance differentiation within the learning environment.

Active learning Working with employees is particularly affected by lack of time due to learners facing competing pressures of work and life commitments and the pressure to deliver a qualification in as short a time as possible. Although your trainers will try very hard to be responsive to the needs of their learners, when it comes to teaching subject knowledge or theory some rely on the ‘telling’ (didactic) method to ensure that learners have at least the basic knowledge they need. In too many of these sessions there are few opportunities for discussion or for learners to develop critical thinking or analytical skills. There are strategies our trainers can use to provide successful active learning opportunities.

Motivational dialogue You can use this approach to working with learners to help being supported by staff who demonstrate a genuine interest and commitment to helping them realise their potential. This ethos underpins the motivational dialogue approach. Using motivational dialogue to help your learners to progress can have many significant outcomes as they can appear to be more motivated to change behaviour, they tend to be more active in reviews and willing to talk about themselves and what motivates them.

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Skills for Life within NVQ Health and Social Care (607 KB)Downloadable file
Learning materials based on a fictitious residential care home setting that can be applied both to the Care Principles Unit of the NVQ and to achieve criteria in the Skills for Life literacy course.

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