Facilitating Adult Learning

1. Facilitating Adult Learning Presenter: Donna Bryant

2. 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.

3. 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?

4. Adults differ from children in their learning … Androgogy– an adult-centered, problem posing approach to learning; Pedagogy – child-centered, teacher-directed education Malcolm Knowles (1990)

5. The Eight Learning Principles Rural Health Education Foundation 2009

6. 1. Multi-sense learning IWB OHP Webinars Posters Activities Videos Chalk’n’talk Discussion When two or more senses are used …

7. 2. Active Learning Learning by doing …

8. 3. Primacy and Recency Tell them what you are going to tell them … Tell them … Tell them what you have told them …

9. 4.4. FeedbackFeedback Feedback between learners and the trainer …

10. 5. Reward Experiencing success and rewards …

11. 6. Practice and Repetition Practice, reinforcement and revision …

12. 7. Meaningful material Material relates to previous knowledge …

13. 8. Holistic Learning The material needs to fit in to part of a whole …

14. The Physical Environment The Social Environment The Learning Environment The Emotional Environment The Cognitive Environment The Holistic Environment

15. Questions