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Develop effective learning environments and approaches to student support and
guidance

This Area of Activity is about how you make effective use of both the formal and informal learning
environment to facilitate learning, and how you seek to meet the needs of your learners for educational
support and guidance. For example you might:

• use different media and technologies, both in the physical and online space
• engage with different kinds of learners e.g. international, culturally diverse, full-time, part-time;
• support learners through one-to-one advice;
• develop your practice to support learners with disabilities;
• work in different modes of learning e.g. distance-based, blended, clinical work/practice-based etc.
Introduction

The main types of educational environment in which you work and/or what kinds of support
and guidance you give to your learners, whether formal or informal (≤ 100 words).
Main section (600 words).
Use the following headings as guidance (note that not all may be relevant to your role)

• How you have contributed to making the learning environment more effective for
learners.

• The ways you have contributed to supporting and guiding your learners.
• Why you chose those particular strategies and how well they worked.
• Which elements of Core Knowledge you used, how and why.
• Which Professional Values you applied, how and why.

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