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How To Teach Adults

An online seminar for all your teachers
January 22-26, 2001

Help your teachers improve their skills. Relevant to new and experienced teachers of adults, regardless of the subject they are teaching. Just in time for your fall classes and courses.

With the magic of the Internet, now your teachers can learn from the foremost authority on lifelong 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.

Here's how it works.
The text from each day, which will not only include presentation information but questions and discussion from participants, will be available the following days as well. This means everything that was presented or discussed can be printed or downloaded the next day as well so if you miss a day, the information will still be available to you and this is true all the way to the end of seminar.

We recommend spending at least 2 hours per day online.

You should have Real Audio to hear the presentations, and can download Real Audio for free at http://www.realaudio.com.

Then your teachers can ask Mr. Draves questions and also share ideas with other teachers in our chat rooms.

Here are some of the topics to be discussed:

1.) How adults learn

• Emotional Characteristics
• Physical Characteristics
• Mental Characteristics
• Social Characteristics

2.) Helping adults learn

• Attributes of a good teacher
• Skills you should have
• Steps in positive teaching

3.) Preparing courses

• Goals, objectives and end results
• Amount of material
• Slant or approach
• Materials Preparation
• Over structuring

4.) Measuring results

• Defining Terminal goals
• Assessing entering behavior
• Assess learning
• Guidelines for constructing tests

5.) Discovering your participants

• Finding out who participants are
• Meeting participant expectations
• Preparing the first class

6.) Involving your participants

• Students as participants
• The teachable moment
• Dropouts
• Adjusting to differing expectations

7.) Varying your teaching techniques

• Modes of teaching
• Leading a discussion
• Making presentation
• How to ask a good question
• Arranging people
• Ice breakers
• Devices and aids
• Reading lists, handouts and other paper chases
• Out-of-class experiences
• Small group activities

8.) Energizing the learning environment

• The learning room
• Teaching tools
• The natural environment
• Learning mediums

9.) Evaluations

• You can evaluate yourself
• Other teachers can evaluate you
• How to do an evaluation
• When to do an evaluation
• Constructing an evaluation

10.) Learning in the 21st century

• Importance increases
• Knowledge will change
• Teaching will be different

Recommended Reading.
To maximize the benefits of the course, your teachers should read "How to Teach Adults" by William A. Draves. The online seminar will follow the chapters in the book.

How To Register.

1. Any one can register for just $45. The price DOES NOT includes the book "How to Teach Adults."  You can order the book from LERN for $12.95 + S/H.

To register, just call us at 1-800-678-5376 weekdays between 8 am and 5 pm Central Time. -OR- Register Online with our Secure Server!

Questions? e-mail Tammy Smith at tammy@lern.org.

Take advantage of this great opportunity! Register today!