Understanding How Young People Learn

Background

Because of new funding streams many educational institutions who have traditionally worked with adult learners are now providing education and training to young learners (14-19). There often a need for staff delivering this training to develop new skill sets to work successfully with this new cohort. In some cases successful practice developed over years with adult learners does not translate easily to delivery to younger students who have a range of differing motivations and expectations. If not handled well this can result in frustration on the part of both the learners and tutors, and can lead to behaviour issues and disaffection. This training has been developed to specifically address these issues.

In many areas of Youth Work and similar, there is a greater emphasis of curriculum and measured learning outcomes in the work with young people. This training would be very useful to a wide range of practitioners designing and delivering a wide range of formal and informal learning experiences for the young people they work with, especially where those practitioners have now undergone formal teacher training.