MANAGING Tough Times Adult Education Practices ANR Professional Development March 22, 2011 Don Broshar and Joani Schweitzer

MANAGING Tough Times Adult Education Practices Three things we need to create for adult learners Apply these to ANR’s work in the context of Steve Sapp research presented 3/11 1 – 2 PM 2 – 3:45 PM

MANAGING Tough Times Adult learning Pedagogy Teaching children Teacher directed Andragogy Art and science of helping adults learn Learner directed

MANAGING Tough Times Competence TRUST COMPLIANCE Confidence

MANAGING Tough Times Adults learn best when Adults learn best when : The time is right for them to learn. They understand why something is important to know or do. They have the freedom to learn in their own way. Learning is experiential. The process is positive and encouraging. Malcolm Knowles

MANAGING Tough Times Create Context

MANAGING Tough Times Patterning

Create room in the bucket

MANAGING Tough Times Stand up and stretch!

MANAGING Tough Times Create a safe space

MANAGING Tough Times Take a deeeeeep breath. © Getty Images

MANAGING Tough Times It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. -Einstein

MANAGING Tough Times Transformative learning Transformative learning is learning that transforms problematic frames of reference – sets of fixed assumptions and expectations (habits of mind, meaning perspectives, mindsets) – to make them more inclusive, discriminating, open, reflective, and emotionally able to change. Jack Mezirow, 1997

MANAGING Tough Times Transformative learning involves: Become aware and critical of own and others’ assumptions Recognize frames of reference Practice redefining problems from another view point Engage in critical discourse

MANAGING Tough Times “In this sense, learning is a social process, social process, and discourse becomes central to making meaning.” -Mezirow to making meaning.” -Mezirow

MANAGING Tough Times Goal: To demonstrate and apply a tool, “Focused Conversation” Set the Stage Use an ORID Objective Questions Reflective Questions Interpretive Questions Decisional Questions Then process the experience of using the tool