LEARNERS ARE DOING GREAT

I am working within The Community at an Adult Education Centre. It is a different set-up to the Further Education College. Although similar qualifications can be gained these courses are Government sponsored and in some cases free depending on the Students' situation.

The Learners that are at the Adult Education Centre have a different attitude to learning to those that are at Further Education Colleges. They are mostly adult learners either looking at a change of career, or have worked mostly as a housewives perhaps returning to work after a long break. Often lacking in confidence, but worst of all feeling that they have failed before. Whether it is failed to have decided on a career when they were younger or failed at several other attempts and becoming a Beauty Therapist is what they envisage an easy choice.

Imagine the anxiety that is felt when they discover that anatomy and physiology is included in the curriculum. Some decide they've failed before and survived so failing again is how the cookie crumbles.

Then they come into my class. In the induction I let them know failing is not an option so if they've joined thinking it does not matter if they pass or complete the course; they should not come to the second class as I do not accept learners that intend to fail.

My learners are doing great!!

GLAMOUR TECHNICIAN REVISION NOTES 0

Beauty therapy students start the course keen to carry out treatments only to discover that there are other unit/subjects that are needed to complete the qualification.  For instance Health and Safety and Client Care which when we think about it we might agree that for the profession this under pinning knowledge is necessary.

Then the other units/subjects are introduced and that is when the students start to ask why? One particular unit that often catches them off guard is the anatomy and physiology. Some feel empowered and learn way above what the criteria requires whilst others bow out of the course hastily. Saying if they wanted to be a Doctor they would have gone to medical school.

As a beauty therapy lecturer I try to create a balance. On one side I have a student that knows every chamber of the heart and the names of arteries and veins in minute detail while another student struggles to identify the difference between a vein and an artery.

I have written a book to engage learners that are studying for their beauty exam and to lead these students through the criteria without going off track. An example of going off track is that although it is necessary to identify the circulatory system of the body we do not need medical student details that will not be asked in a beauty exam. This book is with the publishers, so until publication I will post examples of these exams questions for you to see and hopefully answer.