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Expert learner

The Department for Education and Skills consultation, Personalising Further Education: Developing a Vision (2007), summarised the challenges of personalising the learning journey at every stage so that the learner develops:

“...the skills to be a protagonist in that journey. This is a second journey, to become an expert learner with the skills to negotiate and challenge all elements of the learning experience, to be an active, motivated partner and not a passive, disengaged recipient. Learners need to understand and be able to fulfill their responsibilities as active participants, and colleges and providers need to enable learners in this more active, involved role.”

Supporting learners to become expert learners is both rewarding and challenging for the teacher.

The resources in this area can support you as you:

  • explore the concept of the expert learner
  • consider expert learner characteristics
  • review stages of the learner journey and consider how learners can develop the skills and characteristics associated with the expert learner
  • develop learning activities that foster the skills and characteristics of the expert learner
  • recognise the important role that peers can play in supporting learning.

Resources for teacher educators

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