Welcome to Facilitating Adult Learning

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Welcome to Facilitating Adult Learning
Washington County Public Schools Center for Peak
Performance and Productivity Jennifer C.
LaBombard, K-12 Staff Development Program
Specialist and Wendy Staley, Staff
Development/Mentor Specialist
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• FAL Outcomes
• Participants will
• Content Learn answers to key questions
• Process Participate in a professional learning
  community focused on facilitating adult learners.
• Context Use content and processes to enhance
  their role in WCPS.

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FAL Essential Question

• How can I plan, present, and deliver the
  information most effectively?

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PLANNING
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• To begin with the end in mind means to start
  with a clear understanding of your destination.
  It means to know where youre going so that you
  better understand where you are now, so that the
  steps you take are always in the right
  direction.
  - Steven Covey

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Presenting
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Building Rapport
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Incorporating Metaphors
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Handling Questionsand Overcoming Resistance
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People, in relationship to change

• 8 will be innovators
• 17 will be leaders
• 29 will be early adopters
• 29 will be late adopters
• 17 will be resisters
• (E. Rodgers)

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Gathering Feedback and Follow-up
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The Top Ten Laws of Training Trip-Ups

• If you are expecting 15 participants, 30 will
  show up.
• 9. If you are expecting 30
  participants, 15 will show up.
• 8. The electricity will go out exactly when
  youre ready to show the videobut will come back
  on in time for the tape to snap.
• 7. The only typo in your entire program will
  show up on the handout about quality.
• 6. The day you order fruit in the morning,
  the group will be expecting doughnuts and other
  pastries.

• The day you order jelly doughnuts, the group will
  want fresh fruit and yogurt.
• The training room was double booked and a
  kickboxing class is also scheduled for this
  space.
• Either the air conditioning (summer) or the heat
  (winter) will be malfunctioning in your training
  space.
• If you arrive at the training site to do some
  last-minute preparation, the most talkative
  participant will arrive early as well.
• 1. A perfectly open room will sprout a pillar
  right in the middle of your U-shaped table
  arrangement.

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