Teaching Adults Certificate

Themes:

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