Working as an instructional coach can be hard, but there are some proven techniques that can help your colleagues grow and make your job easier. Join in our discussion of what the research says about working with adult learners.
How Are Adult Brains Different?
In the Chat box, drop ways that adult brains are different from PreK-12 student brains.
Meet Malcolm Knowles
Malcolm Shepherd Knowles (1913 – 1997) was an American educator well known for the use of the term “andragogy” as synonymous to adult education. (Pedagogy deals with the education of children.)
What's Your Best learning Experience?
Take a moment and think of the one best learning situations in your life so far.
Now reflect on that learning situation and decide what two factors made that experience great for you. Share that to our word cloud.
Knowles' Five Assumptions of Adult Learners
Self-Concept
As a person matures, his self-concept moves from one of being a dependent personality toward one of being a self-directedhuman being.
Experience
As a person matures, he accumulates a growing reservoir of experiencethat becomes an increasing resource for learning.
Readiness to Learn
As a person matures, his readiness to learn becomes oriented increasingly to the developmental tasks of his social roles.
Orientation to Learning
As a person matures, his time perspective changes from one of postponed application of knowledge to immediacy of application. As a result, his orientation toward learning shifts from one of subject-centeredness to one of problem-centeredness.
Motivation to Learn
As a person matures, the motivation to learn is internal.
What Does This Look Like in Designing a Learning Experience for Adults?