C2634 - Learn Tour Guiding in Tower Hamlets: Workshop Techniques

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Start Date: 30/04/2025      End Date: 04/06/2025        Start Time: 18:30      End Time: 20:30        Hours per Week: 2.00      No of Weeks: 5
Fees:      £111.00 (tuition)     £236.00 (overseas)     £37.00 (concessionary)
Tutor: David Charnick        No of Places: 16
Shadwell Centre

Course Overview

Course Overview
This course develops previously-acquired guiding skills by giving the supported experience of creating and undertaking a guided walking tour outdoors. It covers the essential techniques needed at both theoretical and practical levels.

What will you learn and be able to do?

What will you learn and be able to do?
* Devise a workable itinerary for a guided tour within a designated area.
* Carry out and implement a detailed risk assessment for an outdoor guided tour
* Interpret the cultural make-up, past and present, of a designated geographical area.
* Interpret and explain visual prompts, such as architectural details
* Communicate information with an audience in a concise and accessible way.
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Entry requirements

Entry requirements
Successful completion of Tour Guiding in Tower Hamlets – The Essentials and/or Going Further, or previous experience of basic guiding.
You will be able to speak English clearly and follow verbal and written instructions. You will also be able to read English fluently.
You will need to be able to walk comfortably for 2 hours with regular stops on outdoor visits
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Equipment required

Equipment required
Comfortable shoes and appropriate clothing for outdoor sessions.
Pen and paper for notes
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How will you know you are making progress?

How will you know you are making progress?
The tutor will provide ongoing feedback throughout the course.

Students are encouraged to monitor their progress and achievement using an Individual Learning Plan (ILP).

You are encouraged to gain more from the course by undertaking activities outside of the classroom activities. Suggested activities include personal research and online events, such as talks and virtual guided tours. Learners are encouraged to practice practical skills such as elementary risk assessment and interpreting visual prompts dusring any allowed exercise walks.
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There is no formal assessment but you will be asked to monitor your own progress during the course. For example, this includes you monitoring your own health and fitness via a simple questionnaire.
There is peer assessment as the class acts as audience for each learner when the class tour is presented; there will be tutor assessment supplied confidentially by e-mail.
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Progress opportunities - your next steps

Progress opportunities - your next steps
Progress to Guiding-related courses and or an accredited guiding course - either Blue Badge course (Institute of Tourist Guiding) or local authority course.
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Other info

Other info
In general, we will not allow late enrolment to any course after the first two weeks.

Children are not allowed in our health & fitness courses unless they are specifically family learning classes. Please do not ask your tutor to give your child access as they do not have the authority to do this.

Health and Safety requirements demand that all learners participating in fitness classes must complete the warm up. Therefore, latecomers that miss the warm up will be refused entry to the session.
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Extra Support

Extra Support
If you have declared a learning difficulty, disability or support need whilst enrolling and you require support/assistance in class or to complete your course, please discuss your needs with your tutor at the first lesson.

If you intend to take an examination and feel you have an additional learning need or special requirements, you must declare them to your tutor within the first 2 weeks of your course.

If you are studying in an online group, then you can arrange a one-to-one online discussion with your tutor, after the session, or by email.

Where we aim to make reasonable adjustments to support our learners, please note we are unable to provide any type of in class or in person support if your course takes place online.
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