Strategies for Helping Students in Individual Learning

Working with
Individual Learners

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Analyse the similarities and differences between teaching, coaching and mentoring and
summarize the responsibilities that your role entailed...........................................................3
Review the effectiveness of my role as a teacher in helping the student achieving goals.....5
Review the processes involved in one-to-one coaching, mentoring and teaching in relation to
emotional, intellectual and social benefits for students..........................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................8
Identify at least FIVE strategies that you used in helping the student and state why you chose
those strategies........................................................................................................................8
Review the resources required for an effective multi-agency approach and explain the factors
that influence the referral process.........................................................................................10
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................11
Analyse the effectiveness of own practice and your own strengths and areas for improvement
in relation to one-to-one role with students.........................................................................11
Identify your own strengths and area for development to help improve your skills in relation
to one-to-one teaching and learning situations.....................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Learners are the individuals seeking knowledge and information in respects to certain
topics and learning new things. The learners seek their learning’s through institutions and even
by professional having enough knowledge in the respective field and hold enough common over
the subject topic (Thistlethwaite and et. al., 2016). The individual learning concept is stating the
learning process in which people learn individually rather than in a group from experts and
professionals who have thorough knowledge and have an in-depth understanding of the
conceptual areas. The individual learning involves three aspects that are Teaching, Coaching and
Monitoring. All these are different form one another but are commonly used. The present report
is based on such learning aspects where the differences and similarities of teaching, coaching and
monitoring are discussed at first. Moving along the effectiveness of an individual placed in any
of the role is defined where they work for helping students reach their goals and attain their
determined goals. And then the process involved in in one-to-one coaching, mentoring and
teaching in relation to emotional, intellectual and social benefits for students is reviewed.
Moreover, some strategies are chosen and used in helping the student and few resources required
for an effective multi-agency approaches are defined. At last, own practices and their
effectiveness are analysed for making improvised steps and changes.
TASK 1
Analyse the similarities and differences between teaching, coaching and mentoring and
summarize the responsibilities that your role entailed.
Teaching
Teaching word derived from to teach that means to instruct. Teaching is a process by
which sharing the knowledge and experience to individual. In teaching instruct about new things.
Its important function is enhancing the knowledge or develops the skills. Learning is a process by
which communicate to two or more individuals influence each other by ideas in the order of
interaction. Teachings main process is provide education. It is an in interactive process not only
one sided process (Douglas and Jaquith, 2018).
Mentoring
Mentoring is a practice in which an individual with certain level of knowledge and
experience in a particular area of expertise is helping and guiding the less experienced and less

knowledgeable person. Mentorship is a relationship that is built between two individuals for
helping and guiding the other one in order to attain better understanding of certain aspects.
Coaching
Coaching define as it helps to individual to improve their performance or skills. Coaching
is between a coach or an individual with the goal of helping in achieving the aim. It is the
process of training or development of individual while learning and in order to achieve goal.
Similarities between teaching Mentoring or coaching
In teaching or coaching promote their learner or coachee in order to achieve goal. The
both are make them able to take right decision of goal or target. And the teacher or coach main
objective is enables their learner to adopt new opportunity (Pierce and et. al., 2017). These all
factors are enhance their self-awareness. In these factors observe to all and give them guidance
according their needs. Teaching sharing knowledge or experience to individual, in Mentoring
observe and analyse the need of learner, coaching is improve their performance. They all are
help in improving their knowledge experience or performance of a learner. The teacher, monitor,
coach should have a particular skill sets of specific subject or field for teach or train the learner
or student. Teaching is a concept base process, Mentoring is a type of systematic observation,
coaching is individual base.
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TEACHING COACHING MENTORING:
Areas of differences Teaching Mentoring Coaching
Relationship Teaching has highly
transactional
relationship.
Mentoring is a long
term relationship that
is developed between
the mentor and
student.
It is longer term
relationship and more
transformational.
Development Teaching develops
new skills. In teaching
the teacher improve
the student’s skills like
interaction
communication or
Mentoring develops
the long term focus.
Mentoring enable the
learner to collect and
analyse the data that
makes them more
Coaching develops the
existing skills and
confidence. it develops
the interpersonal
relation. It develops
better understanding