Understanding your learners

Teaching can lead you to a range of learning environments including:

  • Further Education College
  • Hospital units
  • Pupil Referral Units
  • Young Offenders Institutions
  • Prisons
  • Probation Services
  • Community Centres and more…

Each learner comes into learning for a variety of reasons whether they are personal (intrinsic) or external.

Click on the green bars below for common reason why people attend your sessions.

Improve job prospects

Meet other people

Improve wellbeing

Develop skills

Mandatory training

Pre-course requirement

Job search requirement

Licence conditions

Why is it important to know differences between someone who wants to come to your sessions and someone who has to attend?

Review this in the assessment below

While many learners have much to gain from your course, there may be some things that get in the way. See more in the Learning Barriers lesson.


This assessment supports criterion

  • TLA 2.1 Explain why it is important to identify and meet the individual needs of learners.