different adult learners
Enhancing success and achievement for learners with mental health difficulties
You can attend this training course in one of two ways:
• Book a delegate place on one of our public courses listed below (click here to receive updates on new dates and locations for this course)
• Request this training course to be delivered in-house/on-site for your organisation by e-mailing courses@niace.org.uk. This option may be more cost effective where groups of staff need the training.
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| Fee: | £198 (includes lunch, tea/coffee) |
| Contact: | Raksha Kanani (courses@niace.org.uk) Tel: 0116 204 2811 |
| Apply by Post/Fax |
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"An extremely useful course - practical ideas I can use wth my learners"
Chris Cruickshank, Lecturer, New College, Worcester
"A variety of exercises, well-explained information. Thought provoking"
Pam McGregor, Part-time Lecturer, New College, Worcester
Training Background
This interactive one day training workshop will enable participants to develop and explore effective methods of identifying, negotiating and recording soft outcomes
with the aim of enhancing success and achievement, and developing employability skills, for learners with mental health difficulties.
Soft outcomes in learning refer to the development and tracking of soft skills, such as confidence, communication, or changes in motivation. It is important that learners recognise the benefits of soft learning outcomes and to support this tutors need to encourage the recording of such gains in ways that are effective and meaningful. These methods can link in with any accredited learning but it is also important that they are recognised as central to learners’ sense of achievement.
Soft outcomes are powerful drivers for progression into other learning, volunteering and employment and can be the kind of tangible evidence of achievement that supports learners with mental health difficulties to stick with learning and motivate them to succeed. Employability is a central aspect of current learning and skills provision, and economic prosperity is increasingly reliant on these kinds of skills.
Including a focus on soft outcomes alongside the core curriculum enables a flexible and learnercentred approach which provides scope for learners to take control of their learning. It facilitates the development of creative approaches to learning and encourages staff to encompass a broad range of techniques. There are a variety of tools and methods for recording soft outcomes and these can be tailored to suit individual learners, tutors, learning environments and curriculums.
Personal and social development is linked to the Foundation Learning Tier, the Common Inspection Framework, the Personalisation agenda, and other quality and person-centred approaches.
Top of PageWho would benefit from attending
The training will be particularly relevant to anyone working within a learning and skills setting with people with mental health difficulties.
Training Aim
To explore and develop effective methods of identifying, negotiating and recording soft outcomes to enhance success and achievement for learners with mental health difficulties.
Training Objectives
By the end of the event, participants will have:
- Heard about the key policy drivers
- Explored the importance of soft skills to overcome barriers for learners with mental health difficulties
- Produced a definition of soft outcomes
- Explored effective recording tools for soft outcomes
- Designed and produced their own recording tool to incorporate into delivery and practice within their own organisations
What are the benefits of attending the training
By the end of the day participants should be better able to:
- Understand the importance of soft outcomes for learners with mental health difficulties and how they fit within a broader policy context
- Negotiate and identify appropriate soft outcomes for individual learners
- Recognise a range of tools for recording soft outcomes and design ones that will be effective for their learners and organisation
- Implement effective and meaningful methods to enable learners to benefit from the achievement of soft outcomes.
Programme
09:30 Arrival and Registration (tea/coffee available)
10:00 Welcome and Introduction to the day
10:10 Personal skills inventory
10:30 Objectives of the day
10:35 Policy and practice context for recognition of soft skills
10:45 Why are soft skills important for learners with mental health needs?
11:00 Tea/coffee break
11:15 What are soft outcomes?
11:45 Identifying and negotiating soft skills with learners
12:30 Lunch
13:15 Developmental task – measuring and recording soft outcomes
13:45 Methodology for effective working with soft outcomes
14:15 Tools for recording soft outcomes
14:30 Devising methods and tools for our own practice and delivery
15:00 Feedback
15:10 Summary and evaluation of the day
15:30 Close (tea/coffee available)
This programme is correct at the time of going to press. The organisers reserve the right to make changes to the published programme in the
event of one or more of the advertised speakers being unable to attend. Delegates have no claim against NIACE in respect of such changes.