Introduction
For all learners on courses and awards with an element of providing work-based learning there is a central requirement to think about and plan for a new learner joining the work-base.
For learners undertaking work-based learning there can be both excitement and anxiety. Most learners will be required to join an established team of people within a work-base and so part of the excitement can be related to developing new relationships and this can form, also, part of the anxiety. In addition to the personal work-based relationships there can be both excitement and anxiety about developing an understanding of the work-base culture, the ethos of the work-base and of course, the expectations of direct work with service users.
A crucial role for learning facilitators is the initial preparation of the learning environment, and the on-going work to ensure that the environment remains conducive for active, positive learning.
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© 2009 Scottish Social Services Council. This material was written for the SSSC by Marianne Hughes. This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 UK : Scotland License. This means you are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work; and to make derivative works on condition that you credit SSSC and do not use the work for commercial purposes. For full details of the licence please visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/scotland/