facilitating adult learning

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