Distance Learning Teaching Certificate.
- Improve your teaching skills when working with children and adults.
- Study with highly experienced tutors with this home study course.
- Start at any time.
This course is designed to fill a gap between an extensive education degree, and very short "train the trainer" type courses. It will provide a foundation for teaching people of any age; giving you basic communication skills for delivering a learning experience, either in a classroom, or face to face, and more.

Everyone Learns Differently
Different people have a natural tendency to learn in different ways. One person may learn fast, while another may be slow. Some people flourish in a classroom environment, and others never do.
When you are able to understand what a person's learning style is; you are then in a better position to help them learn.
Different concepts and theories have been developed to help understand variations in learning styles. Here is one, developed by the education theorist, David Kolb.
Diverging Feeling and Watching
This style is characterised by:
- A learner with this learning style will look at things from different perspectives.
- They will be sensitive.
- Prefer to watch rather than do.
- Perform best at viewing concrete situations from differing points of view.
- Like to gather information.
- Have an open mind.
- Tend to prefer to work in groups.
Kolb called this the diverging style as the learner with this style will perform better when there is a need to generate lots of ideas, such as brain storming.
Assimilating Watching and thinking
This style is characterised by:
- Has a concise, logical approach.
- Prefers concepts and ideas to people.
- Look for good clear explanations rather than practical opportunities.
- Understand wide ranging information.
- Prefer to organise in clear logical format.
- More interest in abstract ideas and concepts.
- Prefer theories rather than practical value.
- Effective in science and information careers.
- Prefer lectures, readings, exploring models, having time to think through things.
Converging Doing and Thinking
This style is characterised by:
- Solve problems.
- Use own learning to find solutions to practical problems.
- Prefer technical tasks.
- Less interested in people.
- Like to find practical ideas and solutions to problems.
- Often best at specialist and technological abilities and skills.
- Like to experiment with new ideas.
Accommodating Doing and feeling
This style is characterised by:
- Prefers the hands-on approach.
- Prefers intuition to logic. Will often work on gut instinct rather than logical analysis.
- Will prefer a practical and experiential approach.
- Like new challenges and experiences.
- Will tend to rely on the analysis of others rather than do their own analysis.
- Like to carry out plans.
- This style is the prevalent style in the general population.
Understanding and appreciating these differences, can help teachers better determine the most effective ways of teaching their students. It can also help students make much more informed decisions about the courses they choose to study.
Opportunities to Work in Education
In the past, most jobs in education involved standing in front of a class and talking. The world has been changing though, and all sorts of new opportunities keep emerging. At the same time, the opportunities to work as a classroom, teacher are not the same as they once were (in many ways).
Education professionals today and in the future, are likely to need different and more diverse training, in order to differentiate themselves from other "educators", and get the diverse and different work opportunities that are emerging. This is where this course comes in; having been designed to diversify the educators skills and broaden their awareness of what is new and emerging in education.
The course does this not just through the subjects that are covered; but also through the way we cover what you learn. This course is "experiential" in nature. It incorporates problem based learning methodology in places; and offers a student a lot of flexibility to move their learning along individualised paths. In these ways, every student studies as an individual, learning a different mix of things to the next student; but with strong support from our expert academic team of tutors.
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You can enrol on the Certificate In Teaching today - just head to "It's easy to enrol" at the top of this page and select your payment and study method options.
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