Back in June, 1981, Ron and Susan Zemke sought to enumerate the things we as teachers / trainers / facilitators / classroom aides / tutors know about (1) adult learners and their motivation; (2) designing curriculum for adults; and (3) working with adult in the classroom.
Instead of being outdated or outmoded, the truisms put forth in that seminal article seem just as applicable to modern adult education practice as they did 34 years ago. For example, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) are increasingly expected to be capable of delivering course content utilizing interactive, multimodal learning environments while maintaining a lively, welcoming, inclusive, and supportive classroom experience. See their list item 17 (" ... the adult learner often selects more than one medium ... "), item 18 ("Nonhuman media ... very influential ..."), and item 20 ("Self-direction does not mean isolation .... the adult learner is a very efficiency-minded individual.")
READ ABOUT IT:
Zemke, R., and S. Zemke. "30 Things We Know for Sure About Adult Learning," TRAINING Magazine, June 1981. Minn: Lakewood Publications. (Revisited in June 1995 -- they asked themselves, "Has anything changed?") Found at: http://www.trainingmag.com/sites/default/files//TrainingMagazine_1995_AdultsLearning.pdf
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