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When Learners Don't Want to Be Adults
Type of Presentation
Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)
Session Abstract
We should incorporate best practices from adult education into professional development. However, adult learners don't always want to be adults, so how do we adapt?
Target Audience
Those who work with adults in professional development settings, especially in areas where PD is required so participants may not be self-motivated.
Learning Outcomes
Learners will have strategies to address unmotivated learners, some of which will be aimed at the participant in PD activities but some of which will help PD developers with their own frustration.
Session Description
Many fields require professional development or CEU hours, which can result in learners who are only participating in the PD activity for the credit, rather than with any motivation to learn. They sometimes then prefer a talking head to being an engaged, active learner. Or, participants may take the principle of relevance to the extreme, tuning out any discussion of larger issues or context in favor of resources and activities that they can use immediately with no thought required. The roundtable discussion will give participants an opportunity to vent about these challenges and share ideas for overcoming pushback when using adult learning principles.
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
No preference
Primary Presenter
Rhonda R. Newton, MA, Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation
Work Title
Managing Director