Adult Learners

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Adult Learners

• Curriculum Instruction

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How Are We Smart?

• What do we know about Learning styles?

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LEARNING STYLES

• Whats Your Style?

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We are both Teachers Learners

• How Much of our Teaching is influenced by the way
  we learn ourselves?
• Is it hard for us to see beyond our own
  preferred styles?

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Styles

• Auditory Learn through listening
• Visual/Verbal Learn through seeing
  writing
• Tactile/kinesthetic Learn through doing

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Auditory Learners

• 30 of learners
• Learn from the spoken word
• Written information has little meaning unless it
  has been heard first
• Remember names not faces
• Remember by listening

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Visual/Verbal Learners

• 65 of learners
• Relate most effectively to written information
  pictures, graphs etc..
• Thinks in pictures
• Good spatial sense

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Kinesthetic Learners

• 5 of population
• Remember what was done not seen or talked about
• Doesnt hear things as well
• Learns through touch and action
• Information not normally presented in way that
  meets their needs.

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We Remember

• 20 of what we Hear
• 30 of what we See
• 50 of what we Hear See
• 90 of what they See, Hear DO

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Adult Learning Principles

• Focus on real world problems
• Tell them what you about to teach them
• Emphasize how learning can be applied
• Relate Learning to Learners goals
• Relate Materials to the Learners past
  experiences
• Allow debate and challenge of ideas
• Listen and respect opinion of learners
• Encourage them to be resources to you and each
  other
• Remember to treat them like Adults

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Adults

• Decide for themselves what is important to be
  learned
• Need to validate the information based on their
  beliefs experiences
• Expect what they are learning to be immediately
  useful
• Have experience on which to draw
• Ability to serve as resource to teacher fellow
  learners.

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Adult Learners Self Concept

• Expect and enjoy independence
• They like control and like to take control
• Learning is a process of sharing with the teacher
  and one another
• Teacher has responsibility to encourage self
  direction

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Adults Need to KNOW

• Why they need to know it!!

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Adult Experience

• Have many experiences
• Contributes to lots of discussion
• Can barely tolerate studying anything that cant
  be applied to task they need to perform
• Adults normally come ready to learn and want
  pragmatic application of skills

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Motivating Adult Learners

• Bit size chunks
• Whole part Whole
• Relevant
• The Why of assignments
• Group work
• Climate of exploration
• BE flexible

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Curriculum

• Lesson Planning

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4MAT

• What is this????

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4 MAT

• Developed by Bernice McCarthy 1980
• A cycle of learning
• This curriculum model allows teachers to create
  an engaging program that address a variety of
  learning styles, intelligences and personality
  types.

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4mat Cycle
This cycle can be used to make learning more
meaningful.
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4 Mat Cycle

• TEACHER Connect
• Quadrant 1
• State the topic
• Pose the Question
• Create a high interest

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Teacher Conveys to Student

• Why I need to know about this topic
• Why is this material valuable to me
• Is there a larger context
• Gets students attention with a motivational
  intro to the topic

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Quandrant 1

• STUDENT WHY
• Personal meaningful connections based on
  experiences
• Sharing a story to correlate meaning
• See material in context with a bigger picture
• Focus on present and past understandings
• I know something about this and I want to know
  more

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Quadrant 2

• TEACHER Inform
• What do my students need to know to master the
  content
• What are the core concepts to help them
  understand more with less
• What do I need to emphasize so they will
  understand the concepts

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Quadrant 2

• Student What?
• Excel in traditional learning environments
• Work for defined goals
• Form concepts by integrating observations into
  what is known
• Connect fascination to facts

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Quadrant 3

• Teacher Practice
• How will students use material presented in real
  life?
• Give them opportunities to use new knowledge to
  solve problems
• Activities to gain mastery

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Quadrant 3

• Student How?
• Need to find out how things work
• Test theories in the real world
• Make things useful
• Like problem solving
• Pragmatic
• Look for utility results

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Quadrant 4

• Teacher Perform
• What can my students do with this information?
• What new questions will they have
• Can the teach someone else?
• How can I facilitate their learning and self
  evaluation?

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Quadrant 4

• Student IF?
• Connect things together
• Teach others what I know
• Make what is working work better
• Flexible and adaptable
• Open to new ideas
• Thrive on challenge and crisis
• Risk Takers

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Cycle of Learning
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• Learning is the
• Making
• of
• Meaning