Module 1: Understanding the Adult Learner
This first module presents a foundation for teaching the adult learner and provides participants with best practices of adult education. This information provides the essential information needed by any instructor teaching adults.
Section 1: Adult Learner Characteristics and Needs
Section 2: Applying Adult Learning Theories
Section 3: Using Learning Domains in the Classroom
Section 4: Brain Dominance and Learning Styles
Section 5: Best Practices in Teaching Adult Learners
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Module 2: Teacher Preparation
Module 2 provides tips to both the beginning and seasoned
instructor on how to organize for effective teaching. Areas of
discussion include the teacher office, the teaching environment,
and teaching materials. Also discussed in this module are tips
for a successful first day of a class as well as important closure
strategies for the last days of a class.
Section 1: Teacher Organization
Section 2: The Instructional Environment
Section 3: The Teaching Materials
Section 4: First Day of Class and Class Introductions
Section 5: The Last Days of Class and the Summation of the Course
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Module 3: Techniques for
Classroom Presentation
Module 3 focuses on the actual classroom presentation and
important skills required for successful instruction. Topics
include basic presentation techniques, strategies for using
lecture, questioning and discussion skills, and effective listening.
Section 1: Effective Presentation Techniques
Section 2: Effective Listening Techniques
Section 3: Effective Questioning Techniques
Section 4: Effective Lecture Techniques
Section 5: Effective Discussion Techniques
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Module 4: Strategies for
Active Learning
Module 4 discusses the concept of active learning and its
importance in adult learning and explains important
characteristics of the excellent learning activity. Ideas for
individual activities, group activities, and experiential activities
are provided. Additionally, the learning portfolio is presented as
a way to document learning gained from activities.
Section 1: Foundations of Active Learning
Section 2: Learning Through Individual Activities
Section 3: Learning Through Group Activities
Section 4: Learning Through Experiential Activities
Section 5: The Learning Portfolio
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Module 5: Assessing and Evaluating
the Adult Learner
Module 5 discusses evaluation of the adult learner through
formal grading and informal assessment of progress in the
classroom and in activities. The module identifies and discusses
effective and ineffective feedback, grading, development of
project criteria, and the design of evaluation tools. Additionally,
the module discusses ways for faculty to assess their own skills
and develop plans for improvement.
Section 1: Assessment and Evaluation
Section 2: Grading the Adult Learner
Section 3: Design and Content of Evaluation Tools
Section 4: Assessing Student Progress
Section 5: Faculty Assessment
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Module 6: Classroom Management
for the Adult Learner
Module 6 discusses techniques for managing the adult learner
in the classroom. Topics include motivating the adult, creating a
favorable classroom environment, dealing with diversity, and
humor. Additionally, ideas are presented for dealing with many
of the common student situations.
Section 1: Motivating the Adult Learner
Section 2: Creating a Favorable Environment for Learning
Section 3: Strategies for Common Student Situations
Section 4: Diversity and Legal Issues
Section 5: Humor in the Classroom
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Module 7: Teaching Students How
to Learn
Module 7 focuses on techniques for teaching students how to learn
and study effectively in a college environment. Topics include teaching
students to study effectively and teaching to accommodate good
study habits, teaching students to utilize learning resources, teaching
students how to learn, teaching students how to research effectively,
and teaching professional skills.
Section 1: Faculty Support for Effective Study Skills
Section 2: Effective Utilization of Learning Resources
Section 3: Teaching Students to Think Critically
Section 4: Developing Research Skills
Section 5: Teaching Professional Skills
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Module 8: Technology in the Classroom
Module 8 explains various types of technology available for the
college classroom including ways to use the technology effectively in
teaching the adult learner. Topics include slide presentations, the
Internet, electronic assessment and grading tools, software and
communication tools, and course management tools.
Section 1: Electronic Equipment for the Classroom
Section 2: The Internet as a Learning Tool
Section 3: Electronic Assessment and Grading Tools
Section 4: Software and Communication Tools
Section 5: Course Management Tools
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Module 9: Teaching Online
Module 9 discusses the many factors involved in teaching courses
online. Topics include preparation for online teaching, the
competencies needed by online faculty, communication in the online
course, humanizing the online course, and labs and hands-on
activities.
Section 1: Teaching Online: An Overview
Section 2: Preparation and Faculty Competencies
Section 3: Maintaining Communication from a Distance
Section 4: Humanizing the Online Class
Section 5: Design Basics and Hands-on Activities
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Module 10: Customer Service in the
Classroom for Optimum Retention
This module discusses the important topic of student retention. It
explains the concept of retention and its importance to the student
and the school, techniques for meeting student needs, effective
communication, considerations in advising students, and strategies in
the classroom that can positively affect student retention.
Section 1: Student Retention: An Overview
Section 2: Student Service is Customer Service
Section 3: Effective Communication
Section 4: Advising Students
Section 5: Expanding Student Services to the Classroom
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Module 11: Techniques for Teaching
Special Populations
This module discusses several types of special populations that may
be found in the adult learner and college classroom. It provides a
description of the population, strategies for providing an effective
education to those students, and other related considerations such as
laws, adaptations, and motivations. Populations include students with
physical disabilities, students with sensory and cognitive impairment,
students with socio-emotional and psychological issues, and cultural
awareness and diversity issues.
Section 1: Special Populations in the College Environment: An Overview
Section 2: Physical Disabilities
Section 3: Sensory Impairment and Learning Disabilities
Section 4: Social-Emotional Issues and Psychological Disabilities
Section 5: Cultural and Diversity Considerations
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Module 12: Creating an Innovative
Learning Environment
This module suggests a variety ways to create an innovative learning
environment for the adult learner. Both easy to implement and high
technology ideas are discussed. Areas include creating innovative
classroom facilities, conducting innovative learning activities, including
more collaboration in teaching and using instructional technology
both for instruction and communication.
Section 1: An Overview of Innovation in Higher Education
Section 2: Developing Learning Facilities
Section 3: Transformative and Cooperative Learning Activities
Section 4: Collaborative and Experiential Learning
Section 5: Innovative Learning Technologies and Activity Assessment
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Module 13: Teaching in a Lab or
Shop Environment
This module addresses the special requirements of instructors
teaching in a non-traditional classroom. Subjects include safety,
organization, technology and classroom management issues
specific to the lab or the shop. Special activities given are
tailored to the lab and shop environments.
Section 1: Competency-based Education: An Overview
Section 2: Teaching Strategies for the Lab and Shop Environments
Section 3: Evaluating Student Progress
Section 4: Safety Considerations
Section 5: Considerations for Specific Lab Environments
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Teacher Training Boot Camp Module
This module is designed to orient the new instructor to the
school, the adult learner student population, and to teaching in
general. It provides a discussion of the minimum skills, responsibilities,
and attitudes required for a successful first course. This module is
geared to helping new instructors get started and to making the
first course of teaching a success. Topics include an overview of
college teaching, preparing to teach, the first days of class, dayto-
day classroom responsibilities and techniques, grading and
assessment, and classroom management.
Section 1: An Overview of Instructor Responsibilities and Learning Theory
Section 2: Preparing to Teach and The First Days of Class
Section 3: The Day-to-Day Classroom Environment
Section 4: Grading and Assessment
Section 5: Effective Classroom Management Strategies
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Module 14: Teaching with Experiential
Learning and the Internship
This module provides an overview of the internship process,
including methods for establishing an internship program,
collaborating with internship sites, developing goals, objectives,
and assignments, and supervising students. The module is
appropriate for programs desiring to establish internship
experiences for their students or for those seeking guidelines
for developing an existing program.
Section 1: Extending Curricula into the Workplace
Section 2: Educating the Internship Site
Section 3: Creating Useful Forms and Processes
Section 4: Student Supervision
Section 5: Evaluation and Assessment at Internship Sites
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Module 15: Teaching Professional
Competencies Across the Curriculum
This module focuses on general skills such as writing,
professional development, interpersonal skills, and computer
literacy that are important to any professional entering the
workplace. Methods for incorporating professional skills into all
aspects of the curriculum are provided, as well as the importance
of teaching students the significance of these skills to their success.
Section 1: Writing Across the Curriculum
Section 2: Professional Skills Across the Curriculum
Section 3: Teaching Personal Interaction
Section 4: Supporting Student Professional Growth and Development
Section 5: Supporting Computer Literacy Across the Curriculum
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Module 16: Working with
Advisory Boards
Module 16 provides guidelines for developing an advisory
board to contribute to the development of the academic
program. Suggestions and resources for establishing an
advisory board, conducting meetings, and maintaining effective
relationships with board members are considered.
Section 1: The Importance of Using Advisory Boards
Section 2: Developing Effective Advisory Boards
Section 3: Conducting Effective Advisory Board Meetings
Section 4: Incorporating Advisory Board Input into the Curriculum
Section 5: Recognizing Advisory Board Member Participation
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Module 17: Teaching Information
Literacy
This module explores the concept of information literacy and its
importance to students entering the workplace today. Activities
and suggestions focus on effective library and Internet use as
well as incorporating library use and information seeking
strategies into the classroom.
Section 1: Information Literacy: Its Importance to Student Success
Section 2: Introduction to the Twenty First Century Library
Section 3: Using the Internet for Information
Section 4: The Library and Individual Courses
Section 5: Supporting Information Literacy Innovation
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