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Ability to develop others | Coaching is about facilitating others to find their own way to excellence by recognising and developing specific strengths. |
Action learning set | Small group of peers (ideally four or five people) who come together regularly to critique and challenge actions in a supportive way. |
Action research | A form of small-scale workplace-based research in which teachers, trainers or other professionals investigate their practice with the aim of developing it. |
Active learning | A process whereby learners are actively engaged in the learning process, rather than ‘passively’ absorbing lectures. Active learning involves reading, writing, discussion, and engagement in solving problems, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. |
Active listening | Listening for as opposed to listening to
In active listening the listener uses all their senses and listens as if they are ‘walking in the speaker’s shoes’, often using positive body language or mirroring to reinforce the empathic nature. The active listener encourages the speaker’s train of thought with no or minimal interruption and actively responds to questions. |
Aims | Clear and concise statements that describe what the teacher, tutor or trainer hopes to achieve in a learning session. |
AL | Adult learning. |
ALI | Adult Learning Inspectorate. |
Andragogy | The theoretical and procedural knowledge about teaching and training adults. |
AoC | Association of Colleges. |
Assessment for learning | The process of seeking and interpreting evidence for use by learners and teachers or trainers to decide where the learners are in their learning, where they need to go and how best to get there. |
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