Department of Adult Continuing Education

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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

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Where is Wales?
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WALES
C Y M R U
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Training Community Tutors

• Judith James and Jean Preece

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Foundation in Technology

• Delivered over 20 weeks
• 12 hours a week
• 14 Community Centres

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The Course History
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Course Ethos

• Begin at the beginning

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Course Content

• ICT

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Personal Development
Course includes
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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

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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
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Community Centres
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Community Partnership

• Community centres of education and training
  located in

urban communities suffering social
exclusion Pictures Glynneath Dove
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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

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Student Profile educational participation
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Why We Developed Community Tutors

• sessions on the course identified IT Tutors as a
  possible new career

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Criteria for Community Tutors
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How We Developed Community Tutors
Benefits to Students

• 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

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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

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I used to joke with my FIT tutor, that if ever
she got tired of her job would she please let me
know. Brenda
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Advantages of Using Local Community Tutors

• Local recruiters

There werent many people in the village who
escaped my clutches. Nannette
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Advantages of Using Local Community Tutors

• Empathy with students

Having been an adult learner, it gives me an
insight and empathy with peopleI understand
their responsibilities, their fears and
issues. Karen
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
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Advantages of Using Local Community Tutors

• 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
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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)

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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
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Tutor TrainingAccreditation of Associate Tutors

• Originally University required computing degree

• Extensive negotiations

• Successful completion of FIT course

• European Computer Driving Licence

• Further Adult Education Teaching Certificate

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Training Community Tutors

• Judith James and Jean Preece