Teaching Adults
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Series Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Why adult students are different
- 2 A curriculum for work and life
- 3 Promoting equality and diversity
- 4 Effective strategies to widen participation
- 5 Getting down to teaching and learning
- 6 Improving punctuality and attendance
- 7 Supporting adult learners
- 8 Recognizing achievement and recording progression
- Appendices
- Index
