6.4. Working on transversal competences

General tips

• Always showing a positive attitude towards learners, by empathising.
• Adopting a positive approach, the person at the centre of all actions.
• Adopting teaching strategies that can support learners’ motivation and self-confidence so to make them feel welcome in the learning process.
• Adopting an approach which can boost self-esteem and improve the awareness of one’s strengths.
• Supporting learners in getting out of the feeling of powerlessness about language learning.
• Sharing life stories of adults with LDs as a successful tool of teaching to adults.
• Foreseeing, among the learning objectives, the achievement of individual well-being that is the foundation of better learning.
• Working on the personal relationships with teachers/trainers and peers.