facilitating adult learning
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Facilitating Adult Learning. Presenter: Donna Bryant. Today we will ……. TODAY WE WILL ……. Discuss the difference between adult-centered learning and child-centered learning. Explore the Eight Learning Principles. Look at the impact of the Learning environment. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Facilitating Adult Learning
Presenter: Donna Bryant
Today we will ……TODAY WE WILL …….
• Discuss the difference between
adult-centered learning and
child-centered learning.
• Explore the Eight Learning
Principles.
• Look at the impact of the
Learning environment.
• Think of the best Professional Learning experience you have had – why was it the best?
• Think of the worst Professional Learning experience you have had – why was it the worst?
Androgogy – an adult-centered, problem posing approach to learning;Pedagogy – child-centered, teacher-directed education
Malcolm Knowles (1990)
Adults differ from children in their
learning …
The Eight Learning Principles
Rural Health Education Foundation 2009
1. Multi-sense learningIWB
Videos
Chalk’n’talkDiscussion
OHP
Webinars
Posters
When two or more senses are used …
Activities
2. Active Learning
Learning by doing …
3. Primacy and Recency
Tell them what you are going to tell them …
Tell them …
Tell them what you have told them …
4.4. Feedback Feedback
Feedback between learners and the trainer …
5. Reward
Experiencing success and rewards …
6. Practice and Repetition
Practice, reinforcement and revision …
7. Meaningful material
Material relates to previous knowledge …
8. Holistic Learning
The material needs to fit in to part of a whole …
The Learning Environment
The Social Environme
nt
The Physical
Environment
The Emotional Environment
The Cognitive
Environment The Holistic Environment
Questions