1. Train the Trainer Adult Learning Principles and Facilitation

2. Characteristics of Adult Learners • Self-directing • Experience becomes foundation and resource in learning • Readiness to learn oriented to developmental tasks of social roles • Need to see immediate application of knowledge • Internal motivators

3. Assumptions about Adult Learners • Adults need to know why, what, and how they will learn • Adults need to learn experientially • Adults approach learning as problem-solving • Adults learn best when the topic is of immediate value. • Adults view learning as an active process in the construction of meaning

4. Laws of Learning • Doing • Effect • Exercise • Primacy

5. How we Learn-Auditory, Visual, Kinesthetic

6. I hear & I forget I see & I remember I do & I understand

7. 9 Principles of Adult Learning

8. Methods of Instruction Telling • 70% recall 3 hrs • 10% recall 3 days Showing • 72% recall 3 hrs • 20% recall 3 days Show & Tell • 85% recall 3 hrs • 65% recall 3 days

9. Adult Learners • are goal-oriented and opportunity driven • Use their experience to help out their learning • Learn best in informal, pleasant environments

10. Our Role as Trainers • Expert • Transmits information about a subject to an audience • Planner • Designs or plans the learning experience or the learning environment

11. Our Role as Trainers • Instructor • Guides or directs the learning situation often telling the student what to do • Facilitator • Responds to the student's needs and lends guidance and support

12. Our Role as Trainers • Resource Person • Provides materials and information to the students • Model Role • Models or influences behavior and values • Co-Learner • Learns along side the student. Mutually plans the learning goals

13. Effective Facilitation • Establish a comfortable learning environment • Develop and manage participation • Deliver a clear and concise message • Elicit feedback

14. Resources:

15. Resources: Evidence-Based

16. Let’s Practice!