Teaching and Training in Lifelong Learning

Abstract

This book is chiefly a resource for students following courses such as ‘Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector’ (PTLLS) and Certificate (CTLLS) or Diploma (DTLLS) in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector or Certificate in Education in post-compulsory education (PCE), or in what may variously be termed ‘further education’ (FE), ‘adult and further education’ or similar, which all have in common a concern with students post-14 offered by national awarding bodies or higher education (HE) institutions. While directed primarily at such students, this book will also prove useful for students training to teach in the secondary, FE and HE sectors on Professional or Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) courses. In addition, those intending to gain and retain Qualified Teacher Status (QTLS) will need to engage annually in 30 hours of continuing professional development. Continuing professional development (CPD) will be central to the delivery of the 14–19 curriculum, particularly the specialist diplomas, so that teachers of post-14 students involved in staff development in schools, sixth-form, tertiary or FE colleges, or in the adult education sector, will find this book a helpful resource. Finally, the book will be useful in relation to a wide range of development activities for those involved in training in industry and commerce, both in the public and private sectors. Teaching and Training in Lifelong Learning is not intended as a textbook to be read from cover to cover. Its purpose is more practical and dynamic. It assumes that its users are engaged in a programme of training or staff development and that they are either teaching/training or engaged in teaching practice. It makes teachers’ professional contexts the focus for their development and each section therefore contains a series of practical tasks which, in all cases, are based on those contexts. However, since the emphasis of courses such as the PTLLS and CTLLS is on the acquisition of basic teaching skills and we feel the Diploma in TLLS (DTLLS) should build on this foundation by developing the capacities to analyse critically and reflect, the practical tasks are stimulated or complemented by theory, analysis, information, discussion or examples of student work.