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Adult Learners

Adult Learners. Frances Bozarth Michael Dellerba Kathy Malone Tracy Sherrell. Agenda. Purpose: To develop an awareness of adult learning principles Brain Dump Share Seven Adult Learning Principles with application activities Transformative Learning Power write reflection.

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Adult Learners

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  1. Adult Learners Frances Bozarth Michael Dellerba Kathy Malone Tracy Sherrell

  2. Agenda • Purpose: To develop an awareness of adult learning principles • Brain Dump • Share Seven Adult Learning Principles with application activities • Transformative Learning • Power write reflection

  3. 1. Learning is collaborative. • Select own seating • Comfortable arrangements • Walk and Talks • Group Warm-ups and Review • Brain Dump

  4. 2. Link past to present • Constructivist • Question assumptions • Examining patterns • Big picture view • Summarizing • Nine Square Activity

  5. Emotions & Stress can impact learning. • Safe environment = higher order thinking/creativity • Fight & Flight Response • Music, breathing exercises, personal connections, and movement

  6. 4. Conscious and Unconscious Processing • Frequent breaks • Learning aids : posters, maps and diagrams • Brain breaks every 20 - 30 minutes using strategies from principle 3 • Process using different modalities • 24-48-72 Review sessions • Games, flash cards, teach a peer, etc. • Reflections: Quick write on first 4 principles

  7. 5. Multiple memory pathways • Implicit memory • Explicit memory • 24-48-72 Review • RSQC • KWHL

  8. 6. Adult brain is unique • Never stops learning • Not all alike • Neural pathways are created every time we challenge our minds. • Natural Learning Strengths • Auditory, visual, kinesthetic

  9. 7. Healthy Lifestyle • Promotes mental sharpness • Role modeling • Daily Routines • Stand up Sit Down Activity

  10. Transformative Learning “Becoming aware of one’s own tacit assumptions and expectations and those of others and assessing their relevance for making an interpretation (Mezirow, 2000, p.4).”

  11. Transformative Learning Provides a structure and process through which to better understand adult growth and development.

  12. Transformative Learning Often follows some variation of the following phases of meaning: • Disorienting Dilemma – loss of job, divorce, marriage, back to school, or moving to a new culture • Self-examination with feelings of fear, anger, guilt, or shame • A critical assessment of assumptions • Recognition that one’s discontent and transformation are related • Exploration of options for new roles, relationships and actions • Planning a course of action • Acquiring knowledge and skills for implementing one’s plans • Trying on new roles • Building competence and self-confidence in new roles and relationships • A reintegration into one’s life on the basis of conditions dictated by one’s new perspective (Mezirow, 2000, p.22)

  13. Transformative Learning Critical to teachers helping effect transformative learning in adults, “A safe and supportive system of teachers and other significant people may greatly facilitate the student’s willingness to move forward with transformative learning.”

  14. Wrap-Up • 1 minute power write Identify a piece of valuable information you learned and describe how you can apply it in your profession.

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