1. Food Safety Professional Development for Early Childhood Educators
Teaching Adults
Food Safety Professional Development for
Early Childhood Educators

2. Teaching Adults
Goals
Introduce ideas to help you effectively communicate with others
Introduce you to some tips for dealing with culturally diverse audiences

3. How do adults learn? Three Powerful Principles of Adult Learning
Adults bring a lot of experience with them to workshops, and therefore have something to contribute and something to lose.
Adults want workshops that focus on real-life here and now problems and tasks, rather than on academic situations.
Adults are accustomed to being active and self-directed.
The Ultimate Training Workshop Handbook by Bruce Klatt
-Pages 66-69
Characteristics of adult learning  

4. Something to Learn and Something to Contribute
Every person learns at their own pace and in their own way.
Adults have a lot invested in their experience.
If adults are expected to change, it must be of their own volition. Workshop leaders cannot FORCE change.
The Ultimate Training Workshop Handbook by Bruce Klatt
-Pages 66-69

5. Real-life, “Here and Now” Situations
Adults see learning as a means to an end, rather than as an end in itself.
Learning is voluntary. It must have personal meaning and it must be of direct and immediate value, or adults just won’t be interested.
The Ultimate Training Workshop Handbook by Bruce Klatt
-Pages 66-69

6. Active & Self-Directed Learning
The best learning is based on experience.
Aim for a cooperative and collaborative process that supports participants sharing their experiences.
The Ultimate Training Workshop Handbook by Bruce Klatt
-Pages 66-69

7. Matching Adult Teaching Strategies with Your Audience (Know Your Audience)
Who are they?
Why should they listen to you?
Can they relate to you?
Are you adequately addressing cultural differences?
Public Speaking for Dummies by Malcolm Kushner
-Chapter 7 “Relating to Your Audience (Without a Paternity Test)

8. Analyzing Your Audience
Demographic information
Audience attitudes, values, and beliefs
What do they know and when did they know it?
Check for parallelism
Public Speaking for Dummies by Malcolm Kushner
-Chapter 7 “Relating to Your Audience (Without a Paternity Test)

9. Why should they listen to you?
Tell them what to expect
Highlight the benefits
Public Speaking for Dummies by Malcolm Kushner
-Chapter 7 “Relating to Your Audience (Without a Paternity Test)

10. Can your audience relate to you?
Create common ground
Localize and customize your remarks
Push their hot buttons
Public Speaking for Dummies by Malcolm Kushner
-Chapter 7 “Relating to Your Audience (Without a Paternity Test)

11. Speaking to Cross-Cultural Audiences
Do not fall for stereotypes
Do not assume your humor will work
Do project humility
Do not greet the audience in their language if you do not speak it
Public Speaking for Dummies by Malcolm Kushner
-Chapter 7 “Relating to Your Audience (Without a Paternity Test)

12. Creating Rapport Acknowledge what the audience is feeling
Share something that helps the audience know you
Do not whine about your problems
Identify and address audience subgroups
Identify influential audience members
Express your feelings
Focus on their needs, not yours
Public Speaking for Dummies by Malcolm Kushner
-Chapter 7 “Relating to Your Audience (Without a Paternity Test)

13. Emphasizing the Importance Of Food Safety Content
Why should I listen to you?
How does this relate to me?
What is my benefit from listening?
How does this apply to my current circumstances?
Ideas from WGM 2