Grow Your Workforce: How to Teach Adult Learners
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Grow Your Workforce: How to Teach Adult Learners at FutureLearn Overview
Duration | 4 weeks |
Total fee | ₹2,093 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
Grow Your Workforce: How to Teach Adult Learners at FutureLearn Highlights
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate.
Grow Your Workforce: How to Teach Adult Learners at FutureLearn Course details
- Whether you are a workplace educator or looking to enter the industry of andragogy, its important to know how adults learn to be able to adapt your teaching methods.
- This four-week course provides an introduction to adult teaching and will help you discover key skills and knowledge to create engaging lessons.
- You will explore ways you can make teaching fun, interactive, and inclusive as you explore student-centred learning approaches you can use with your adult learners.
- You will identify the key factors in andragogy to understand its differences so you can create lessons suited to your learner.
- You will explore what makes an effective teacher as you learn student-centred approaches to teaching and how to work with groups of learners. You will also understand inquiry-based learning (IBL) to help inspire your students and promote engagement.
- With your understanding of different teaching techniques, you will learn how to apply these skills to real-life teaching scenarios.
- Guided by the experts at Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec), you will reflect on the ways you can use effective methods in your future teaching either in workplace training, professional development, or a career in andragogy.
Grow Your Workforce: How to Teach Adult Learners at FutureLearn Curriculum
Introduction to your course. Andragogy: How adults learn
Introduction to your course and your educators
Introduction to Malcolm Knowles' theory of Andragogy.
How do I use andragogy to become a more effective teacher or trainer?
The end of Week 1
Student-Centred Learning.
The learning pyramid
The teacher-centred classroom versus the student-centred classroom
Scaffolding learning
Student-centred activities.
The end of Week 2
Working with groups
Advantages and potential challenges of using group work
Steps to take in setting up group work.
What works best - small or large groups?
The end of Week 3
Inquiry based learning
What is Inquiry based learning?
Inquiry based learning questions
Looking at the stages of inquiry based learning
Let's hear from some teachers who use inquiry-based learning.
Overview of Week 4 and what is next for you
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