Cambridge-Isanti Community Education

Whether you want to or currently teach, in any setting, either formally or informally, this course is for you. Gain both the fundamental and advanced information to improve your teaching. Your lead instructor is the author of How to Teach Adults, the best-selling book on the subject. The ebook version is included in the course.

Class Details:

Unit 1: How Adults Learn

• Emotional characteristics, self-image as key
• Physical characteristics and your physical surroundings
• Mental characteristics, adults display a readiness to learn
• Social characteristics, learners’ experiences, schooling, and prior experience
• Keys to helping adults learn

Unit 2: Tackling Learning Styles

• Sensory learning styles
• Gender learning styles
• Neurological learning styles

Unit 3: Generational Learning Styles

• The cohort experience
• Understanding generational differences
• How Baby Boomers learn
• How Gen X and Gen Y learns

Unit 4: How to Prepare for your Course

• Preparing the Course
• Goals, objectives, and end results
• Amount of material to cover
• Slant or approach, a range of ways to approach your subject
• Materials preparation

Unit 5: Discovering and Involving Your Participants

• Finding out more about your participants
• The First Class, why this meeting is critical, ice breakers
• How to involving your participants
• The Teachable Moment, a special time when you let go for awhile

Unit 6: Ways to Vary Your Teaching Techniques

• Modes of teaching, different formats for various situations
• Tips on how to leading a good discussion
• How to ask a good question - one of the most overlooked skills
• Making small group activities successful
• Energizing your physical learning environment

Unit 7: Great Presentation Techniques

• Surprising do’s and don’ts of presenting
• Advanced presentation techniques
• Teaching tools, including audio-visuals
• Handouts that really zing
• Learning mediums, extra special touches to enhance learning

Unit 8: Improving Your Teaching

• Measuring results and learning
• Using the web in face-to-face courses
• Improving your course, every time
• Learning and teaching in the 21st century

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