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Outline:
- Session 1: The Adult Learner and Adult
Learning
- Session 2: Instructing Adults
- Session 3: Evaluating Adult Learning
Outcomes:
Session 1: The Adult Learner and Adult Learning
- Pinpoint class members on am continuum from novice to
seasoned adult learners
- Pinpoint the five types of learners in a class and plan
for each in terms of needs
- Identify four types of teachers and identify the
usefulness of the four approaches to instructing
- Apply the principles of constuctivism to teaching and
learning
Session 2: Teaching Adult Learners
- Create a positive, inviting, growth-producing classroom
climate
- Apply the methods of the Brain-Compatible Classroom to
your teaching situation
- Apply Vella's four learning tasks to your situation
- Apply Bloom's Taxonomy to your teaching
- Apply Wiggins 6 Facets of Understanding to your
teaching
- Apply the Higher-level Thinking Taxonomy to your
teaching
- Formulate and ask higher-order thinking questions
Session 3: Evaluating Student Learning and Our
Teaching Results
- Understand and apply the model of evaluation
- Understand and apply appropriate methods re
pre-assessment, monitoring, and post-assessment
- Understand and apply appropriate tests re their timing,
purpose, use
- Understand and apply the 8 characteristics of
appropriate tests
- Score an essay items and discuss the results
- Develop a continuum of evaluation procedures
- Create appropriate selection- and construction-item
type prompts
- Use a table of specifications and a test plan to create
better tests and better results
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