Willingness to Learn

Encourage learners to ask questions instead of giving them answers.

Ask learners to rate their personal comfort with this topic. "I'm OK - I'm swimming - I'm drowning".

Let learners see if they can work it out and see if others will help each other out.

Allow leaders to emerge.

Often say “This is why we are doing these tasks in class.” For example a tutor: “I take this onto myself because many international learners don’t question why we are doing something. I say “you need to be working at this speed because you won’t have the opportunity to do it slowly” [in industry].

Provide learners with context for activities, so they can appreciate the relevance of the activity to industry; for example “To be an effective employee, understanding this [form] both for work jobs and for keeping track of your own earnings and tax, is really important”.

Work with humility.

Recognise that learners have different motivations.

Try to make the environment enjoyable.

Share examples from own learning experience with learners. “This is how I tackled it.”

Use learner questions as prompts to discuss real world scenarios.