Interactive Teaching

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Training of Trainers (???)
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Programme
Interactive Teaching and Learning Methods
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Think

• What do you want to learn?
• What questions do you want to have answered?
• What do you expect from your participation in the
  ????

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Methods of work with adults (Angdragogics )
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Goal

• What is andragogics?
• What is the difference between pedagogics and
  andragogics?
• What difficulties can arise in the process of
  teaching adults?

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Expected Results
By the end of this Module you will

• Know the features of adult learning
• Understand differences between pedagogics and
  andragogics
• Be able to describe principles of adult learning
  
• Account for difficulties that may arise in the
  process of teaching adults

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Task 1 Differences between pedagogics and
andragogics

• Notion of andragogics
• Features of adult learning
• Comparative analysis of pedagogics and
  andragogics
• Principles of adult learning

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Lets think!

• What does the word andragogics mean?

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What is andragogics?

• Andragogics(from Greek aner, andros adult man,
  mature man ago - lead) the science of
  teaching adults

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Andragogics

• In the process of teaching adults, it is
  necessary to take into account
• features that adults exhibit in the process of
  learning
• principles of work with adults
• difficulties that may arise in the process of
  teaching adults

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Lets think!

• What are the features of an adult learner?

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Features of an adult learner

• May learn all life long
• Is an independent, self-controlled person
• Has a versatile experience
• Has a vast personal, professional and social
  experience

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Features of an adult learner

• Emotionally assesses the information grasped
• Connects the things s/he studies to the things
  s/he already knows
• Trusts the trainer and is confident about the
  trainers competence

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Features of an Adult Learner

• Is more motivated to study
• Applies the studied material in practice and
  feels satisfied by the process of study
• Teaching adults is different than teaching
  children

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PracticumSmall group assignment

• In 5 minutes
• Select three key differences between pedagogics
  and andragogics
• Share your opinion

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Comparative analysis of pedagogics and andragogics
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Comparative analysis of pedagogics and andragogics
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Comparative analysis of pedagogics and andragogics
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Comparative analysis of pedagogics and andragogics
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Principles of teaching adults

• An adult learner is aware of his/her needs at the
  start of the learning process
• Build the training around participants
  activities
• Organise feedback

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Principles of teaching adults

• Provide clear and simple instructions on the
  assignment
• Be prepared to discuss and revise assignments
• Give participants time

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Principles of teaching adults

• Evaluate participants activities
• Value the incorrect activities, as mistakes are
  the source of knowledge
• Teaching goes best, when participants can choose
  their own pace of learning

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Principles of teaching adults

• Each adult has an individual style of learning
• Conscious learning requires minimal irritation
  level
• As a result of reciprocal contacts adults and
  their teachers influence and correct each others
  actions

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Task 1 Differences between pedagogics and
andragogics Pedagogical Reflexion

• What have you learnt?

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Lets summarise

• The centre of educational process in andragogics
  is the adult learner as a person
• The necessary conditions are
• Freedom of choice
• Possibility of self-realisation
• Improvement of self-esteem

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Lets summarise

• The process of learning in andragogics helps a
  person realise
• The importance of his/her own viewpoint
• Responsibility for the decisions taken
• Add your own idea!

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Moving further
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Task 2 Difficulties that may arise in the
process of adult teaching

• Difficult participants
• Difficult questions

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Lets think!

• What participants can be called difficult?

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Difficult participants

• The Uncertain One
• The Monopolist
• The Experienced One
• The Polemist
• The Non-Listener
• The Uncompromising One
• The Aggressive One

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Difficult participants

• The Overthrower of Authorities
• The Complaining One
• The Angry One
• The Negative One
• The Clown
• The One Showing Off
• The Wrong-Oriented One

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Difficult participants

• What to do?
• There should be no such thing as the right hind
  corner!
• Do not ignore opinion of a difficult participant
• Remember that aggressive behaviour may be an
  attempt to hide uncertainty
• Be strict if necessary
• Try to involve everybody into work

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Difficult participants

• What to do?
• Quiet the whyer
• Resolve the problem actively and openly
• Express your disagreement with an idea, but do
  not get personal
• Make a joke out of a difficulty
• Make a break to cool down

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Lets think!

• What questions are difficult for a trainer?

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Difficult questions

• Difficult questions are the questions that
• We dont know how to answer
• May several answers, and we dont know which one
  is better
• Challenge our professionalism when we face them
  in the course of a training

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Difficult questionsWhat to do?

• Do not pretend that you know the answer, if you
  dont!
• Have the question clarified
• Let those who want to answer the question do it
  
• Let the participants independently work on a
  difficult question
• Include the difficult question in the plan of
  your future trainings

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Difficult questionsWhat to do?

• Remember that there will be no such thing as the
  only right answer to a difficult question
• Ask the participants to rate various answers
• Welcome difficult questions!
• Accumulate experience

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Task 2 Difficulties that may arise in the
process of teaching adults Pedagogical reflexion

• What have your learnt?

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Lets summarise

• No matter how enthusiastic a trainer is about
  his/her work, there are situations where
  difficult people and inadequate reactions will
  be encountered
• Looking for an explanation for that, observe
  the difficult participant and try to understand
  what the true reason is

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Lets summarise

• A training based upon resolution of complex and
  difficult issues will be much more useful to
  the participants than a training in which
  problems were being avoided.
• Add your own idea!