Helping Adults Learn: Facilitating Adult Learning

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Helping Adults Learn Facilitating Adult Learning

• Mohammad Douglah
• Dawn Gundermann

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Learning Domains
Skills
Knowledge
Behaviors
Attitudes
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Hierarchy of Learning
Knowledge
Skills
Attitudes Beliefs
High Order
Adaptation Origination
Characterization
Analyzing Synthesizing
Understanding
Mechanization
Organization
Impulsive Response
Remembering
Trial Error
Low Order
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Integration of the Domains

• The more a behavior is the outcome of integrating
  higher order knowledge, skills and attitudes
• The more desirable the behavior.
• The more the learner becomes motivated to
  continue learning about the subject of the
  behavior.

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Steps in Effective Teaching Learning

• Climate setting establishing a climate conducive
  to learning.
• - Trust - Authenticity
• - Openness - Humanness
• - Supportiveness - Pleasure
• Involve participants in reviewing and discussing
  the objectives of the learning experience.
• Present content through oral, written and visual
  means.

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Steps in Effective Teaching Learning

• Provide time for participants to practice
  learning tasks.
• Use formative assessment tools to enhance
  learning.
• Provide participants with tools to promote
  continuous learning and sustained application of
  recommended practices.