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Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
An Educator Of Adults
‘An individual confronted with the responsibility of becoming an educator of adults learns partly by the process of participation and partly by his own examination of that process’
Houle, 1960
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
Where is Wales?
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
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Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
Training Community Tutors
Judith James and Jean Preece
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
Foundation in Technology
Delivered over 20 weeks
12 hours a week
14 Community Centres
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
The Course History
1989 Women in
Technology (WIT)
Women returners
school hours & holidays, childcare support
Included men redundant
from pit closures &steel works
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
Course Ethos“Begin at the beginning…”
Friendly, flexible, non-threatening
teaching
Mutual trust and tolerance
Interactive style of teaching reduces distance and builds trust
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
Course ContentICT
Word Processing
Spread- sheets
Database File Management
PowerPoint Basic Concepts
Internet E-mail
ECDL
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
Personal Development
Daily diaryConfidence building
Job applicationskills
Presentationskills
CV writing
Course includes
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
Project
Students produce a project using all their new ICT skills
Topic - students choice i.e. football, coping with diabetes, history of the Lipizzaner, travel etc.
Experience in researching and information skills
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
Provision in the Community
“Learning contributes to social cohesion and fosters a sense of belonging, responsibility and identity. In communities affected by rapid economic change and industrial restructuring, learning builds local capacity to this change.”
‘The Learning Age’ DfEE 1998
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
Community Centres
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
Areas of deprivation(coal mines closed)
Community PartnershipCommunity centres of education and training located in:
Isolated rural communitiesUrban communities
suffering social exclusion
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
Why We Developed Community Tutors
The course was attracting a large number of students who had not been successful in main stream education
Feedback revealed that students felt that “tutors came from a different world”
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
Student Profile: educational participation
female male
First education or training since leaving school 38% 43%
Undertook further study 66% 57%
Gained paid employment 51% 27%
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
» sessions on the course identified IT Tutors as a possible new career“
Dace developed more courses in new locations
Successful students sought
progression routes
Guidance identified ICT Tutors as a
possible career
Why We Developed Community Tutors
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
Criteria for Community Tutors
motivating
patience
empathyenthusiasm
encouraging
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
How We Developed Community Tutors
“Having found this new world of computers to be totally captivating, and amazed with what one is able to achieve with a computer, …… ….I felt I had found this new career path I had been looking for. This was to pursue a new career in teaching other adults how to use computers”
Stephanie
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
How We Developed Community Tutors
They were invited to work along side existing tutors as paid assistants for the duration of the complete 5 month course
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
“I used to joke with my FIT tutor, that if ever she got tired of her job would she please let me know.”
Brenda
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
Local recruiters“There weren’t many people in the village who escaped my clutches”.
Nannette FIT
Advantages of Using Local Community Tutors
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
Empathy with students
“As a tutor who has been an adult learner, I have a better understanding of where my students are coming from, and some of the fears they have.”
Alison
“Having been an adult learner, it gives me an insight and empathy with people…I understand their responsibilities, their fears and issues.”
Karen
Advantages of Using Local Community Tutors
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
Wide range of life experience
Here I was for the first time ever, redundant at the grand old age of 49 and awaiting surgery to have 2 replacement knee joints and no obvious job prospects for the future, not a very good year
Peter
Advantages of Using Local Community Tutors
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
Tutor TrainingPractical and Theoretical
All tutors have completed the course themselves
Potential tutors work as a trainee alongside an experienced tutor
Study for formal teaching qualifications Further and Adult Education Teaching Certificate (FAETC)
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
My FIT tutor was inspirational she instilled in me a sense of the high standard that the course required as well as giving me the confidence to do it, she has a very good sense of humour and her story telling is legendary…..
Mary
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
Tutor TrainingAccreditation of Associate Tutors
Originally University required computing degree
Extensive negotiations
European Computer Driving Licence
Successful completion of FIT course
Further & Adult Education Teaching Certificate
Department of Adult Continuing EducationUniversity of Wales Swansea
Training Community Tutors
Judith James and Jean Preece