The areas I have defined above may sound easy to include in a class or they may sound difficult depending on your point of view, but I believe they are much harder to achieve for a teacher of fitness than many students realise, hence the number of newly qualified teachers that leave our industry constantly.

This is an important issue for me as the employability tutor as my main role is to ensure that the learners can and do create a action plan for their release in terms of education, further training and gaining employment.

At the start of the planning meeting for this year, the organisation had decided to make changes. Instead of assigning tutors a class for the whole year, the unit manager had decided to recognise areas of expertise and assign tutor’s areas of curriculum rather than one singular class. In theory, this seemed like an excellent plan… In practice, it has not quite worked.

Motivation is what teachers, tutors or educators think of as the distinguishing feature of adult learners from school pupils. Based on their more mature behaviour due to age and past experiences, what we tend to assume is that adult learners come into the classroom with ‘bags of motivation’ and are ready to absorb what we teach.

The purpose of this research was to establish the benefits of changing the student induction process to increase retention on childcare courses during the first four weeks of the course.

For the organisation I work for, learners with challenging behaviour are more and more frequently being enrolled at the college, each learner is individually funded by the Local Education Authority with support ranging from £22,000 to £110,000 per year. Therefore, identifying a workable and manageable behaviour strategy and policy that can be used consistently in the classroom and across the college is ever more important to get right in order to meet such targets.