Formal

1. Unit 6- Personal and
Professional Development
in Health and Social Care

2. Warm up – Doodle Heads!

3. What is learning?
“The acquisition of knowledge or skills through
experience, practice, or study, or by being
taught." (WorldNet, 2012)
Start learning from birth
Learning is continues.
You learn every day
Every day you wake up smarter than the day before.

4. •
Aims:
Define the following terms:
Formal learning
Informal learning
Differentiate between formal and
informal learning
Identify personal experiences of
formal and informal learning

5.  Formal:
 “Learning in a structured and planned way, such
as at college or school.” [Walsh, 2012]
 Informal:
 “Learning from everyday events or situations
that occur in everyday life or which arise in the
workplace.” [Walsh, 2012]

6. Task: Use your mobile phone to
research your own definition of
formal and informal learning.
Don’t forget to note down the
source/reference!

7. COMPARE…

8. Formal Informal
Learn by attending lessons at
college
Learning through peer
observation
Learn by attending sessions
on the Advantage programme
Learn through shadowing and
observing staff at work
Learn through induction
training for work placement or
paid employment
Learn by engaging with
discussions and debates in the
workplace
Learn by watching videos and
documentaries as part of your
study programme
Learn by asking questions
when the need occurs
Learn by reading newspapers
and articles as homework
Learning from family and
friends through mirroring,
observation and questioning

9. CONTRAST…

10. Formal Informal
Learnt in official settings Learnt in places/spaces
where you want!
Planned learning (Lessons) Learnt through personal
experience
and reflection
Often enforced onto the
learner
Often through voluntary
participation
Teachers are in control
(make the decisions)
Teachers facilitate
(Students do the research)

11. Case studies:
Read the case studies provided and
identify whether they are examples
of formal or informal learning

12. Assignment task:
Your first task for P1 is to identify
and explain examples of your own
experiences of formal and informal
learning.
Using the guidance on your task
sheet, create an evaluation of your
own experiences (3 examples of
each).

13. Task (20 minutes)
In your booklet use research to make a poster/
mind map (Cut and stick) research on learning.
1- Definition of learning, informal and formal learning
2-Examples of Formal and informal learning.
3- Give 3 examples of how you have learnt things relating
to health and care in a formal and informal way.

14. Formal
Completing assignments (learnt all information needed through structured
lessons and made to complete assignment?
GCSE passing?- ( Taught from planned lessons at school, revision given
from teachers.
Attending lessons? (Learnt … through planned structured lesson)
Informal
Placement – what you learnt from that?
Extra revision at home?
Asking teachers / placement staff/ people from home advice and on
their experiences?
Job – learnt through doing or observing.