1 Knowing the Adult Learner Guidance & Instruction Strategies Jones, M., Shelton, M. (2011). Developing Your Portfolio--Enhancing Your Learning and Showing Your Stuff: A Guide for the Early Childhood Student or Professional, Second Edition. Routledge.
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Knowing the Adult LearnerGuidance & Instruction
Strategies
Jones, M., Shelton, M. (2011). Developing Your Portfolio--Enhancing Your Learning and Showing Your Stuff: A Guide for the Early Childhood Student or Professional, Second Edition. Routledge.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn…and change.
Carl Rogers
Consider Your Philosophy: The Basis for Practice
Human development
theories
Teaching/learning theories
Practice
Strategies, tools, methods
Our Initial Assumptions and Observations about Adult Learners
What we thought and what we’ve learned.
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Assumption Observation Adults prefer
active, rather than passive learning
Many adults enter the learning environment expecting to be treated as passive learners
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Assumption Observations
Many adults consistently operate at higher levels of thinking
Many adults operate at the concrete level and require guidance in developing higher level thinking skills. Formal thinking is situational.
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Assumption Observation
Adults continue to construct their own knowledge
Adults continue to construct their own knowledge, but the process is often complicated by assumptions, beliefs, expectations and locus of control
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Assumptions Observations Adults want
choice, flexibility, and autonomy just as we do
Adults differ in their desire for autonomy and locus of control. Some adult learners are highly dependent upon instructor approval.
Insights about Adult Learners
A developmental continuum exists for adult learners
Developmental characteristics reflect maturity, experience, and education
Developmental level is situational Developmental levels must inform
guidance and instruction strategies Adults often need scaffolding in