Activity C

Guidelines for promoting positive learning experiences

Reflection, discussion, use of handouts

Materials and equipment

Flip chart and markers
Handout 2.2: General Instructions to Tutors (2 pages)
Handout 2.3: Helping Learning Happen
Handout 2.4: Qualities Developed by Good Tutors (2 pages)
Preparation Copy handouts.

STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS

  1. Discuss with your tutors some of the guidelines from the General Instructions to Tutors handout. Explain that these guidelines help to promote positive learning experiences.
  2. Discuss with tutors the handout Helping Learning Happen.
  3. Have your tutors brainstorm some qualities they think would be important for tutors to have based on the previous handouts. List these qualities on the flip chart. Give them the handout Qualities Developed by Good Tutors and compare that list to theirs.

Activity D

Barriers to learning

Research published by ABC Canada Literacy Foundation in 2001 and 2002 showed that adult literacy and ESL learners face a number of barriers that make it difficult for them to get help: