The overriding issue for many Further Education teachers and trainees is learner disengagement, leading to behavioural issues and a lack of motivation in the classroom. Faced with unmotivated learners on a daily basis, teachers can soon begin to lose their own enthusiasm and confidence. Motivating Unwilling Learners in Further Education offers a range of practical strategies for engaging your learners and reigniting the spark of successful classroom teaching.
Susan Wallace draws on her years of teaching and researching in Further Education to provide an up-to-date selection of strategies and scenarios for managing behaviour and motivating unwilling learners, including tips for
supporting students and meeting curriculum requirements. This is a valuable toolkit of ideas and advice for ensuring that everyone you teach, from school leavers to mature students, reaches their full potential.
This book offers helpful tips for tackling disengaged learners. Susan Wallace explores the learning barriers students in further education face: fear, boredom, previous negative experiences and loss of hope and how this impacts the classroom environment. Setting up examples of typical classroom scenarios, four different teaching styles are analysed: rewards, relationship, respect and razzamatazz. Discussing the advantages of these approaches and why they work, the author uses examples of four caricatures of teachers who use the different approaches and explains the benefits in helping learners re-engage. There are also tips for educators to keep themselves motivated.