Are you supporting adult learners in your work?

Today, 2 November, the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) has launched a new free Empowering Adult Learners online professional development course on its learnwithnala.ie eLearning website.

Who is it for?

This course is useful for anyone who supports adults to learn, including:

• Tutors, trainers and support workers
• Community Employment Supervisors supporting Individual Learning Plans
• Staff or volunteers in disability and community settings supporting learning goals or Person Centred Plans

What you will learn

This free professional development course is designed to help staff or volunteers working with adult learners to:

• create an empowering and learner-centred environment
• use strengths-based and respectful communication approaches
• build learner confidence and motivation to reach their goals

The course is based around NALA’s Guidelines for Good Adult Literacy Work and will give you practical ways to use these in an adult education setting.

This self-paced online course takes about 45 minutes to complete. You will receive a NALA Professional Development certificate on successful completion of the course.

Find out more about the Empowering Adult Learners course

Background to the course

Empowering Adult Learners is adapted from course content and learning outcomes developed as part of the European Basic Skills Network (EBSN) Professional Development Series, developed in partnership with South East Technological University (SETU) and NALA.

NALA would like to thank everyone involved in creating this course.