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Help! Who's In My Classroom? Signed: New Anxious Adjunct
Type of Presentation
Concurrent Session (45 minutes)
Session Abstract
Identifying the variables, among different generations represented in adult-learners' classes, is a first-step in helping new adjunct faculty be prepared to meet the demands of their students.
Target Audience
This session is open to everyone. It is important for anyone teaching adult learners to be knowledgeable about classroom generational diversity and its impact on motivation, creative thinking, communication style, use of technology and understanding group dynamics. Professional development faculty, new and long-time faculty and organizational leaders involved in training adult learners will benefit from attending the session as they learn how the historical influences of each generation impact the learning expectations of the contemporary generations in our adult-learner classrooms today.
Learning Outcomes
Professional development faculty will gain insight on how to effectively get new (fulltime and part-time) faculty invested in the generational influences experienced by their students. New faculty will learn information about their personal generational influences as well as the generational influences their adult students bring to the classroom. Each attendee will learn how to maximize the adult-student generational influences and create a collaborative learning experience for each generation in their class.
Session Description
As the Silent Generation adult student population decreases, and the Baby Boomer adult student population levels off, the Generation X and Generation Y adult learners are filling our classrooms. Today's adult-learner classrooms usually have a combination of the Baby Boomer, Generation X and Generation Y populations. Collaboration between these three generations can create a positive learning experience. Or, if conflict occurs between the Baby Boomer, Generation X and Generation Y students, a negative learning outcome occurs. During this concurrent session, we will focus on the historical influences and communication styles of the current primary three generations of adult learners. Then, we will focus on how to facilitate and provide a collaborative learning outcome for all three generations.
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.
Wednesday November 6
Primary Presenter
Pamela K. Sigafoose, M.S., Palm Beach Atlantic University
Work Title
Assistant Professor of Education