How to Teach Adults

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Improve your teaching and presentation skills. Relevant to new and experienced teachers of adults, regardless of the subject you are teaching

With the magic of the Internet, now you can learn from the foremost authority on adult learning, William A. Draves, author of the best selling book "How to Teach Adults."

The course is relevant for any person teaching a class, seminar or course in-person.

It's easy It's fun.

Participate any time day or night.
Participate as little or as much as you want.
Participate from any Internet-connected computer you want.

Here's how it works.

After you register, you will be given a username and password and web site address so you can log-into our online classroom.

All you need is a) to be able to access the Internet and b) Real Audio, a plug-in software you can download for free. You can get Real Audio by going to http://www.real.com

We recommend you spend around one hour a day online in the course. After you register, you will receive further instructions via email about how the course works.

Here's what you do online.

You will listen to the daily lecture.
You can read additional articles.
You can ask the instructor any question you want in our asynchronous discussion forum (written chat).
You can dialogue with other teachers, share ideas from them, and contribute your own ideas (also asynchronous discussion forum, or written chat).
You can take our self-quizzes whenever you want and find out how well you are doing.
You should also order the textbook for the course and read just 20 pages a day in preparation for the daily unit.

Agenda.

Day One - How Adults Learn
Day Two - How to prepare for Your Course
Day Three - How to Involve Your Participants
Day Four - Ways to Vary Your Teaching Techniques
Day Five - How to Energize your Learning Environment

Fee.

The fee is $95. The book, How to Teach Adults, is extra and is just $12 plus shipping and handling from LERN.

Register 10 or more people, the fee is just $50 per person.

How to register.

You can register in several ways:

You can register online by clicking here. We accept credit cards and have a secure server for online registration.
You can call 1-800-678-5376 weekdays 8-5 Central time.
You can mail a check to LERN, P.O. Box 9, River Falls, WI. 54022

Ordering the Book.

You can order the book "How to Teach Adults" at the time of your registration.
You can order the book from LERN at the same time you complete the registration form.
You can order the book from Amazon .com

"How to Teach Adults" is sponsored by the Learning Resources Network (LERN), the leading association in lifelong learning. For more information about LERN, go to http://www.lern.org.

Again, thank you for your interest in "How to Teach Adults." We look forward to having you in our next online course. Just click here to register online.