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Strategies to enable learners to engage with learning

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Strategies to enable learners to engage with learning

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1. Make it meaningful
2. Foster a growth-mindset
3. Establish positive student-teacher relationships
4. Blended resources to meet the needs of all learners.
5. Use lots of visual learning to capture attention
6. Plenty of unconditional positive regard and praising the effort, not just the results.
7. Creating a safe environment - Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
8. Listen to students to make them feel valued
9. Engage with students competitive nature.
10. Display student work .

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How learner's social-economic, cultural and personal background, work history and educational achievement can effect the needs, aspirations and decision on making abilities and approach to learning. 

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How learner's social-economic, cultural and personal background, work history and educational achievement can effect the needs, aspirations and decision on making abilities and approach to learning. 

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When preparing for the personal tutor role it is important to consider various factors that will effect the needs of the individual learner . These factors often interlink with one another.

Social-economic

Students may be concerned about ecomomic barriers to progress through the education system.

Some class activities, e.g. Kahoot require students to have a Smart phone which may place some students at a disadvantage.

Cultural

Learner may come from a personal background where education was not valued, which will effect their attitude to learning.

Some students may be ESOL which can make it difficult to participate fully within a lesson and difficult to produce written work required for the course.

Personal background

Learners will have to find a balance between study-work-life and many learners may have to make child-care arrangements.

Students may face resistance and lack of support at home regarding education.

Students may have care commitment, including house work and shopping, that impacts their attendance.

Work history
Learners may need their current employer to consider shift patterns and rota

Educational achievements

Adult learners may well have been out of education for a number of years. This will have an impact of both their confidence when it comes to learning, and their ability to use ICT.

Students may consider they 'can't do' or have 'failed' at education is the past and will need to develop a growth-mindset when it comes to their taking responsibility for their learning. This may translate into a lack of aspiration for the student to advance to university.

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Transactional analysis is a theory which operates as each of the following:

1. a theory of personality

2. a model of communication

3. a study of repetitive patterns of behaviour