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

What do you think may be some of the differences between someone who wants to come to your sessions and someone who has to attend?

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Summary

As teachers, we will need to be mindful of the reasons our learners are with us so we can support their learning needs more effectively.


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