As an English teacher I teach Adults to learn it as a second language. I am interested in different ways and approaches in classroom management for the learning and sharing the knowledge.
Adult learning is the way where learners come to knowledge without any pressure with their own free will and that's make learning fun and easy since there is a motivation there!
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ReplyDeleteIn my opinion adult learning in most cases is about an individual's self motivation to acquire the knowledge, rather than an imposition by the social and economic drivers of a community. Having been through many situations, adults are much more aware of the need to get the knowledge, and so they are ready to make every effort to succeed.
ReplyDeleteIf you have specific questions regarding the approaches you would like to choose to teach adults English, please share some, and we can perhaps discuss them here and develop further.
One difficulty that you may come across in teaching adults may be their ability in finding balance between work and studies. This is something I have been having trouble with in my online mode studies which run in parallel with my work. But it is about the motivation and time management. Some students do very well. But some, like me, had a hard time to cope :). I am trying to improve.
yeah! i am so pumped to see you set up this blog. Sweet Lady: I really appreciate you speaking to the motivation to acquire knowledge over social and economic drivers...but part of me wonders if such things need to be different. i guess i am interested in re-thinking what our social and economic drivers are, and in such a case hoping they can come together.
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Adult Education is a core piece of our communities and businesses. I’ve observed business partners recognize the critical role Training and Development plays in reaching strategic goals. In our evolving world, we secure innovative ways of shaping performing employees!
ReplyDeleteWe look forward to seeing all the smiles pasted on the kid's faces coming out of the class...
ReplyDeleteDear Orzu!
ReplyDeleteI read your article several times and I found out that you make enough efforts
to attract your students. It is a tough job to be a teacher in general because
you always need to create something new for them.
I see in your article that you are very interested in your job and you have so
much enthusiasm.
Among my friends, I have enough teachers and I would like to share your
article with them.
Looking forward to read your next article!
Rachel
Hi Orzu,
ReplyDeleteI can see that you are very passionate about teaching and that you are excited for your students to learn.
Some university students are considered adults, but their parents force them, so not all of them study voluntarily and not all of them are motivated. Also, though some are highly motivated they normally have a lot of other stuff going on and so can be distracted. However, they also have a lot of experiences to share with others.
Sheridon
I agree, that there are a lot of factors effecting the learning quality like family, work, remoteness of the school and the rest!
ReplyDeleteWhen we have the different goals the learning quality is also different., Adult learners learn since they have a life goal, where the children learn without having this goal. Interesting would be to see what is the difference between kids learning and adult learning, any ideas?
I have been too busy these months and no blogs at all sorry my dear friends.
ReplyDeleteThese months are hectic as well since I am taking summer intensive courses and one of them is about Consulting in Human Performance and instructional design. What is it you may ask, I am not sure 100% yet if I can answer to this question. It seems, a consultant is exactly the same as a Project Manager. The consultant is a professional who comes to the organization, and do investigations to solve the problem and before coming to the solution the consultant needs to pass through several positive and informative steps or negative and not easy ones to tackle obstacles. By being in the class I had a feeling that I am in the Human relations class since most of the learning happened in my head was connected to soft skills, cognitive thinking of the consultant, human touch of the latter to the matter of the problem solving and of course the professionalism and expertise. So what did I learn you may ask: I learned about 6 boxes, I learned about models, and theories and read lots and lots of articles. The task list of the assignments was not easy one, but step by step I am managing them and so far so good. The most interesting part of the class was interviewing a real consultant and speaking with the guest speakers invited by our instructor, Sonia. We have learnt a lot from this experience and got that it is not easy to be a consultant but it is an interesting and challenging job where you learn from everybody and everything on the spot. It is kind of investigation process where you do interviews and use models, everything is well planned and predicted, well, sometimes, but not most of the time it seems. From my experience of this course I would love to work as a consultant and integrate the solutions. If anyone of you are interested just let me know and I would love to share my knowledge with you.
If you have ever consulted in any field pls do share your knowledge here,