I would like to push the home tuition element of my business, but to really push this I feel I need some sort of adult learning qualification to back it up. I've goggled it but not sure exactly what I am looking for.
A friend is doing a PGCE but I think this overkill for what I need, and want something more basic.
Any ideas? I am thinking something at level 3 or 4, simply as I don't want to get into more debt with expensive HE courses.
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There is a basic qualification for teaching adults, City and Guilds 7307, and it is run in many FE colleges on a part time basis. Check out your local college.
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Thanks that is the kind of thing I have been looking for :).
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www.themanchestercollege.ac.uk/courses/adult/preparing-teach-lifelong-learning-sector-7303-0
At £150 I will enrol on this for next September, probably too late for this year but will give them a call.
I know it is a very basic qualification, but it something to add onto my CV and it should give me the confidence to be able to get into teaching older people how to use technology more.
Last edited by: RattleandSmoke on Fri 26 Aug 11 at 16:20
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Rattle
It's an excellent course for giving you confidence.
I did the same one but did it as a crash course which was intensive and expensive, but it did wonders for me and you will benefit from it I'm sure.
Pat
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I should give them a call as there may be vacancies. These courses are not usually oversubscribed.
This course is basically an introduction and you will need to follow with the C&G 7307.
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Thanks just been having a look. A few colleges offer it but prices vary. Some do January starts, which might be better now. Not really sure where I will go with it, but if I enjoy it then I may do the next one up.
Still no idea what I want to do with my life, but hopefully once I get back to the education environment I may have a better idea.
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Your doing ok with your live Rattle.Take each day and make the best of it.:)
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>> Still no idea what I want to do with my life
I never have and, at age 81, probably never will.
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I'm about half your age draiber, and feel the same. I've given up trying to find a job/career/calling that I want to do, so I'm just going to try to earn as much as I can in the job that I've ended up falling in to ove the last 17 years since I started working.
It's a means to an end for me, my life is about my leisure time and my family and friends,I don't need to define myself through a job/career. I just don't care enough about it.
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That is kind of how I feel, but at the same time I am not really getting the quality of life I need long term at the moment.
So I need to slow down and more with my life before life passes me by, which fees like what is happening at the moment. But at least I have a job, so many of my friends don't at the moment.
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"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
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Sad, isn't Alanovic. Most people I think end up in that position.
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>> Sad, isn't Alanovic. Most people I think end up in that position.
Work changes, and usually not for the better. The first three years of my working life were crap, the middle 22 years were absolutely fabulous, and the last 15 were a pain, trapped by the need for pension and salary.
The first two years of my non working life are fabulous again!
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You have lived longer than most,:) Draiber.No wonder there are so many people going off the rails.The system is crap.
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I decided some years ago to seize every opportunity that came across my path, whether personal or professional. So far it's served me pretty well.
Clearly, your heart isn't in what you're doing at the moment because if it was, you'd either be making a lot more money or you'd have signed up to that course for this month. You've put it off not because "January might be a better month" but because secretly you either don't want to do it or you can't be bothered. No offence intended, but that's exactly what comes across.
You thought about some voluntary work? What about skilled trades? Teaching (kids, not adults)? What about buying and flogging in bulk on eBay? Multi-drop delivery? Construction? My brother started off demolishing kitchens with a sledgehammer; two years later he was earning more than I do now and being head-hunted across Europe for his skills at landscaping golf courses. Technical writing? Funded my flying training. Military? What about work on a cruise ship?
Life is what you make of it. Sitting back and waiting for it to fall nicely into place will NEVER work. The most successful people at work all have multiple enterprises because they're like that, not because they're lucky.
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Too late for the September in take, and I will have the money in January, just very busy this week too and can't attend anything at such short notice. At least when I start in January I will have some decent notice and can plan around that.
In my head I have an idea to aim for a PGSE for adults (crap with kids) so I get into the HE or training side of things. I have other things I need to sort out first, which I won't go into on here, but might another time. Just want to sort a couple of things out which have held me back since I was 16, I am sure you get my gist!
The main reason my heart is not in what I am doing now is I know there is no long long term future in it.
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Just a reality check Rattle.
Teaching adults isn't all you think it is.
You do have to stand up in front of a class and talk out loud.
You do get heckled...badly.
You do have to take it in good part, but still get the class back on track.
You have to be assertive but subtle.
You will get criticised a lot, in front of them all.
You have to strike a fine balance between being in control yet lax with them.
They do have opinions which will deffer from what you're teaching them.
They will voice them... not individually but as a group.
Last of all you need thick skin and the ability to laugh at yourself when they point out your (inevitable) mistakes.
If you can manage all the above then maybe the course is worth a go, but if there's even one of them you have doubts about, don't do it.
Pat
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>> Just a reality check Rattle.
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Just a reality check, Pat.
Since when do you think anything that Rattle, or for that matter FoR, says he is planning to do will lead to it being acted upon?
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If you are set on teaching adults then you may find it helpful to get a copy of [i]Adults Learning[i/] by Jennifer Rogers, published by The Open University Press.
This is an easy to read book without the jargon. A quote from the blurb about the book states "...written for the non-specialist,....the book will continue to prove invaluable... to adult education teachers - many of whom have had no professional training.
It should still be in print.
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As I said it is something I do a lot in my current job anyway, I am always teaching so it would be nice to have something to back it up. I have also taught in groups many years back, but I wasn't paid for it so it was a different ball game.
It is just back up what I currently do and to get back into the learning environment. I will have a much better idea then if it is a route I want into further or not.
Either way £250 or so spent on a course, or down the pub :)
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You could put a 1 in front of that 2 and it still wouldn't reach the cost of mine, so I hope it's a good one.
Pat
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Basic teaching qualifications? - Robbie34
