MANAGING Tough Times Adult Education Practices ANR Professional
Development March 22, 2011 Don Broshar and Joani Schweitzer
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MANAGING Tough Times Adult Education Practices Three things we
need to create for adult learners Apply these to ANRs work in the
context of Steve Sapp research presented 3/11 1 2 PM 2 3:45 PM
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MANAGING Tough Times Adult learning Pedagogy Teaching children
Teacher directed Andragogy Art and science of helping adults learn
Learner directed
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MANAGING Tough Times Competence TRUST COMPLIANCE
Confidence
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MANAGING Tough Times Adults learn best when Adults learn best
when : The time is right for them to learn. They understand why
something is important to know or do. They have the freedom to
learn in their own way. Learning is experiential. The process is
positive and encouraging. Malcolm Knowles
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MANAGING Tough Times Create Context
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MANAGING Tough Times Patterning
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Create room in the bucket
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MANAGING Tough Times Stand up and stretch!
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MANAGING Tough Times Create a safe space
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MANAGING Tough Times Take a deeeeeep breath. Getty Images
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MANAGING Tough Times It is the supreme art of the teacher to
awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. -Einstein
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MANAGING Tough Times Transformative learning Transformative
learning is learning that transforms problematic frames of
reference sets of fixed assumptions and expectations (habits of
mind, meaning perspectives, mindsets) to make them more inclusive,
discriminating, open, reflective, and emotionally able to change.
Jack Mezirow, 1997
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MANAGING Tough Times Transformative learning involves: Become
aware and critical of own and others assumptions Recognize frames
of reference Practice redefining problems from another view point
Engage in critical discourse
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MANAGING Tough Times In this sense, learning is a social
process, social process, and discourse becomes central to making
meaning. -Mezirow to making meaning. -Mezirow
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MANAGING Tough Times Goal: To demonstrate and apply a tool,
Focused Conversation Set the Stage Use an ORID Objective Questions
Reflective Questions Interpretive Questions Decisional Questions
Then process the experience of using the tool
