Working with Individual Learners

Working with
Individual Learners

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
A) Differences between teaching, coaching and mentoring and summarize the responsibilities
that your role entailed.............................................................................................................1
B) Reflect and review the effectiveness of your role in helping the student achieving goal. 2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
A) Resources and strategies used in helping students to learn and reason behind choosing
them........................................................................................................................................4
B) Identify factors that influence the referral process and agencies worked in consultation and
explain why you might have worked or indeed worked with these agencies........................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
A) Reflect on coaching or mentoring role and identify your own strengths and any areas that
you feel the need to improve to help you with in a future one-to-one role with students......7
B) Develop action plan to help improve your own skills in relation to one-to-one teaching and
learning situations...................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Learning is the process through which individual can enhance knowledge as per current
market trends. This is the continuous process through which they develop compatiblity to
external environment. There are different sources such as training, seminars, conferences, etc.
through which individual can learn and explore knowledge (Avis, Fisher and Thompson, 2014).
Learning is effective for personal as well as professional life. Learning can be provide in form of
mentoring, coaching, teaching. In this report role of mentor or coach is explained who has being
trained, employed individuals. There is requirement of different skills which are effective and
significant for polish current skills and knowledge. This report covers roles and responsibilities
of coach, mentor, teacher, strategies and resources selected to meet individual learners,
contribution of coaching, mentoring, teaching in development of individual learners, evaluation
of own practice for one to one teaching.
TASK 1
A) Differences between teaching, coaching and mentoring and summarize the responsibilities
that your role entailed
Teacher, mentor and coach sounds to be synonymous but there is difference in their roles
and responsibilities. Coaching has focus on task and performance of individual. Teaching has
relation with knowledge and information related to specific topic. While mentoring is about
increasing efficiency and capabilities of individual.
Teaching Coaching Mentoring
Teaching can be done by
individual who has complete
and appropriate knowledge
about subject. Teaching is
done in group a well as one to
one person also. Teaching
deals with end result of class.
Teaching can be done through
learning programme but they
have to be according to
Coaching deals with
improving weak areas of
individual so to improve
performance. They provide
guidance and direction in the
manner student understand in
order to accomplish targets.
Coaching is done on set
parameters which are
structured and rigid.
Mentoring can be done in
effective way by being critical
friend of learners. Mentoring is
done as per circumstances so
to provide a sense of direction
to student but the goals have
not been clearly stated in this
approach. Mentoring helps to
take actions in order to achieve
target in appropriate way.
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perception of candidate.
There is difference in roles and responsibilities as per change in circumstances. It is
important to make proper strategy through which targets of candidates can be achieve goals and
objectives on time. Some responsibilities played by coach is as under-
Enable students to identify needs- As coach, it is my prime responsibility to enhance
knowledge and quality of individual. There are some skills in every candidate, so it is my
responsibility to identify it. There are some needs and wants of every learners, these has to be
identified with the help of mentor. This can be effective and significant for enhancing career
growth of individual (Corder, 2012).
Offering appropriate guidance or direction- Mentor, coach, teacher are the people who
provide guidance in order to achieve targets. For instance if learner wants to make career in
hospitality sector then I provide guidance to take admission in best college, pursue internship
from reputed hotel, etc. are pathways through which learner can achieve targets in more effective
manner.
Encouraging and challenging- There are different circumstances which are effective and
significant for growth and development of individual. Being coach I motivate learner to accept
challenges. With the help of challenges, learner can grab more opportunities which are fruitful
for their career . Accepting risk results in positive results. There are challenges in life, I motivate
candidate to deal with them effectively.
Exploring solutions- There are different problem arise in career, so being coach I provide
solutions with are effective and signifiant for career of learners. There are possibilities that
candidate face failure in career, in this case I provide other way to coordinate with situation.
B) Reflect and review the effectiveness of your role in helping the student achieving goal
I coach I have to consider different aspe4cts which are important for achieving goals and
responsibilities. There is difference in goals and objectives of individual as per change in time,
so this thing I have to consider in mind while dealing with them (Duckworthand et. al., 2010).
Coaching is performed in different ways through which candidate is able to polish their skills.
Some responsibilities are as under-
Identifying needs through initial assessment- As coach I believe to first identify needs
of candidates. It is important because further plan can be efficient for achieving targets. With
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