Adult Learning Key Assumptions For Adult Learning 1

Adult Learning

Key Assumptions For Adult Learning 1. Adults are autonomous and self-directed. 2. Adults have accumulated a foundation of 3. 4. 5. 6. life experiences and knowledge. Adults are goal-oriented. Adults are relevancy-oriented. Adults are practical, focusing on the aspects of a lesson most useful. Adults need to be shown respect

Pike’s Laws for Adult learning 1. Adults are experienced-based learners. 2. People do not argue with their own data. 3. Learning is directly proportional to the amount of fun they are having. 4. Learning has not taken place until behavior has changed.

Learning Retention (after 3 days) 10% of what you read. 20% of what you hear. 30% of what you see. 50% of what you see and hear. 70% of what you say. 90% of what you say as you do (e. g. , orally work out a problem) (Pike 1989).

Adult Wants In Learning 1. To gain something. 2. To be something. 3. To do something. 4. To save something.

Key Practises For Adult Learning 1. GUIDE. Adults enter the learning environment with a deep need to be self-directing and take a leadership role in his or her learning. 2. DRAW PARTICIPATION. Experience is a rich resource for adult learning. Actively involve adults in the learning process. 3. RATIONALIZE. Develop an appeal, a "need to know" in the learners-to make a case for the value in their life performance of learning what is offered.

Key Practises For Adult Learning 4. HONOR. Honor adult learners' individuality and experience and create a safe, respectful, and participant-centered environment for learning to take place. 5. BE CREATVE. Deliver instruction in a stimulating, rich, and diverse environment through a variety of instructional methods to appeal to adult participants' learning styles and preferences. 6. PRAY FOR THEM. Realize that many are blind and unfamiliar with spiritual truth.

5 Ways To De-motivate Adults 1. Have little personal contact. 2. Get participants in a passive mood and keep them there. 3. Assume the class will apply what is taught; do not bother with examples. 4. Be alert to criticize. 5. Make them feel stupid for asking questions in class.

Our Attitude is Important 1. Show respect for the learner's individuality and experience. 2. Be sensitive to the language you use so that learners are not inadvertently offended. 3. Be open to different perspectives. 4. Adopt a caring attitude and show it.

Our Attitude is Important 5. Treat the learners as individuals rather than as a group of people who are all alike. 6. Support all learner comments by acknowledging the "rightness" that is in each comment and each person. 7. Take the learning process seriously because it is serious and important

17 Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover? ” 18 And He said, “Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is near; I am to keep the Passover at your house with My disciples. ”’” 19 The disciples did as Jesus had directed them; and they prepared the Passover.

20 Now when evening came, Jesus was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples. 21 As they were eating, He said, “Truly I say to you that one of you will betray Me. ” 22 Being deeply grieved, they each one began to say to Him, “Surely not I, Lord? ” 23 And He answered, “He who dipped his hand with Me in the bowl is the one who will betray Me. 24“The Son of Man is to go, just as it is written of Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born. ” 25 And Judas, who was betraying Him, said, “Surely it is not I, Rabbi? ” Jesus said* to him, “You have said it yourself. ”

26 While they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and after a blessing, He broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is My body. ” 27 And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; 28 for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many forgiveness of sins. 29“But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom. ”

14 When the hour had come, He reclined at the table, and the apostles with Him. 15 And He said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; 16 for I say to you, I shall never again eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God. ” 17 And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He said, “Take this and share it among yourselves; 18 for I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine from now on until the kingdom of God comes. ”

19 And when He had taken some bread and given thanks, He broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me. ” 20 And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.

5 Then He poured* water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. 6 So He came* to Simon Peter. He said* to Him, “Lord, do You wash my feet? ” 7 Jesus answered and said to him, “What I do you do not realize now, but you will understand hereafter. ” 8 Peter said* to Him, “Never shall You wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me. ”

9 Simon Peter said* to Him, “Lord, then wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head. ” 10 Jesus said* to him, “He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you. ” 11 For He knew the one who was betraying Him; for this reason He said, “Not all of you are clean. ”

12 So when He had washed their feet, and taken His garments and reclined at the table again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? 13“You call Me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am. 14“If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15“For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you.