Understanding of individuals and situations

Discover and understand your local training needs

This category emphasises the importance of the context within which the teacher is situated. It is broken down into two sub-categories:

Analysing teacher needs
Dealing with individual differences

Your training situation can be diverse within a country, region or local education authority. This category is about discovering and understanding what your local training needs are.

From Teacher to Trainer

Has understanding of a specific training situation
Identifies basic strengths and weaknesses of trainees through informal contact with trainees and shared experience in the teaching situation
Acknowledges that teachers have different experiences and attitudes to teaching and learning
Acknowledges emergent needs and is in the process of building strategies to deal with them
Knows that adults in training situations learn in many different ways

Autonomous Trainer

Has an understanding of the individual, teaching and institutional cultures of a range of specific training situations
Identifies trainees’ strengths and weaknesses based on information about the situation supplied, or initial analysis prior to, or at the beginning of the course. Plans accordingly.
Incorporates different experiences and attitudes to plan and conduct sessions
Demonstrates flexibility of approach by attempting to deal with emergent needs
Articulates specific differences in the ways that adults learn and uses this knowledge to plan and conduct sessions

Lead Trainer

Can draw and act on comparisons between a variety of training and teaching situations. Has a deep understanding of their individual, teaching and institutional cultures.
Identifies trainees’ strengths and weaknesses by using a variety of needs-analysis tools before, and throughout a course. Plans and conducts sessions accordingly.
Uses teachers’ experience and attitudes as a core component of training principles
Deals flexibly and efficiently with emergent needs
Evaluates the different ways in which specific participants learn. Uses a variety of strategies and tasks to meet the participants’ needs and preferences.

From Teacher to Trainer

Demonstrates sensitivity to the individual, institutional and cultural differences in their own teaching environment
Describes training groups in terms of their general characteristics
Takes individual differences into account when planning and conducting training activities

Autonomous Trainer

Demonstrates experience of dealing with individual, institutional and cultural aspects of training environments
Describes trainee groups in terms of their individual differences
Uses a range of strategies to take individual differences into account when planning and conducting training activities

Lead Trainer

Demonstrates a deep knowledge of, and sensitivity to individual, institutional and cultural aspects across a wide range of teaching and training environments
Description of trainee groups shows deep analysis of individual differences
Actively develops the awareness of individual differences in trainees using a wide range of strategies

Discover and understand your local training needs

Analysing teacher needs

From Teacher to Trainer

Autonomous Trainer

Lead Trainer

Dealing with individual differences

From Teacher to Trainer

Autonomous Trainer

Lead Trainer