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YMCA Training Ptlls Course Name: Cheryl Dering Analyse different ways in which you would establish ground rules with your learners, which would underpin behaviour and respect for others. Ground rules are set to ensure a smooth running of the learning and the journey for the learner. They should be clear and precise and be understandable by all within the group this will then allow the learners to be able to work around discussion and respect. “All learners require boundaries and rules within which to work, setting ground rules will help everyone know their limits” Gravells, A. 2008. Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector – (Third Edition). Ground rules could include objectives such as, time keeping, mobile phones to be turned off, respecting others, open friendly discussions. If the learners have set these rules then they have bought into this. “If the group take ownership for their own rules, they are more likely to keep them”, “Often if a ground rule is broken, it is the other learners that will reprimand the offender. Gravells, A. 2008. Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector – (Third Edition) I have used different approaches of establishing ground rules, I believe that they should be adapted to the group you are teaching and they should be beneficial for all that are encounter able and they should be established effectively. There are three different approaches that I have used these are for the tutor to set the rules, for the learners to set the rules or for both to set the rules. It is important in all approaches that all parties understand why ground rules are set. The activities for setting the objections can be by gaining interaction from the group, post it notes with each objection on around the room, put them into a hat and the tutor to bring them out anonymously, this can be used if the group has particularly shy people and therefore adapting to the individuals learning style, group discussion can be used if you have a particularly confident group of learners. Within my role as a manager of a training centre it was vital to ensure that ground rules have been set with both my staff and the participants that visit our centre. The rules that were set with the staff are delivered through their induction where the onus is on myself to advise the new member to the team of the rules that have been put into place, I also ensure I advise why we have set them and the benefit this has had to the centre, and how they are to ensure that we are working towards the companies policies of Equality and Diversity, Data Protection, Health and Safety and Safeguarding. I believe that by getting the member of staff to read through the policies and understand that if they are not adhered to the consequences they could hold is that of them taking ownership. The ground rules that were set for the participants when they are attending the centre were discussed as a team, this I believe was the most productive way to do this as is it the staff who have to embed these into the centre and be confident to challenge if they are being broken. This was an activity within a team meeting where we had a discussion within the team which proceeded to a document that is now used within the centre. Ground rules are important to ensure that the group holds a good atmosphere and that all parties have an understanding to ensure that learning is achieved. That way they can develop to what they are setting out to achieve. “The growth of self-actualisation (Maslow, 1962) refers to the need for personal growth that is present throughout a person’s life. For Maslow, a person is always “becoming” and never remains static in these terms. In self-actualisation a person comes to find a meaning to life that is important to them” http://www.simplypsychology.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/maslow.html accessed 10/10/2010 Cheryl Dering Page 2 1/9/2011