https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools Share your discoveries (Double click anywhere to add your thoughts, links, and images) en-us 2019-09-22 01:02:34 UTC 2023-04-05 16:55:21 UTC hello@padlet.com message https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/387666768 Remember to include your name!]]> 2019-09-22 01:06:33 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/387666768 https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/392554216 Hi, I am Punam Dalai. 
Here, I have attached a link to a vedio that provides more details on adult learning. What are principles, benefits and differneces from child learning or pedagogy. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsvgMSGn3rY]]> 2019-10-02 16:12:00 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/392554216 https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/393720424 Terry Haws.  Found this article that, in my opinion talks about some of the very things that we learned about in various videos in this section.

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2016/august/flight-training/instructor-report]]> 2019-10-04 18:00:55 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/393720424 https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/394019230 Donna Maher
I think late work is the bane of grading. This podcast gives some ideas to deal with late work grading.

https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/late-work/]]> 2019-10-05 23:23:53 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/394019230 https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/394180989 Jake Heare
There have been many suggested changes to how we teaching science to undergraduate students. This guide was developed to help instructors design courses around core competencies that students should get from the course. Many of the competencies are applicable to other topics and courses. ]]> 2019-10-06 21:00:18 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/394180989 https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/394182242 I found a few quick articles related to time management for adult learners. I think time management is often the biggest hurdle as our students need to wear multiple hats in their personal/professional lives while focusing on school as well.
- Bradley Lee

Links:
https://parttime.syr.edu/2016/12/15/8-time-management-tips-adult-college-students/

https://success.oregonstate.edu/learning/stop-procrastinating

]]> 2019-10-06 21:08:07 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/394182242 chelsea_n_good https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/394192579 Chelsea Good. I really liked this article about one student's experience in higher education and the struggles he faced to make it through school. Though his experience is set at a university, it reminded me of many of RTC's students experiences. It's important as an instructor to remember that adult learners are not one-dimensional beings, coming to the classroom just to learn. They have complex lives often with strengths and barriers that can be used to help them develop their skills as adult learners.]]> 2019-10-06 22:21:29 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/394192579 https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/394232898 The information in this article/video is fantastic.  For me the dominoes in my head began falling in the right place to make things all connect from student to instructor POV's.  
-Jenn Phillips]]> 2019-10-07 02:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/394232898 https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/394711692 https://medium.com/national-center-for-institutional-diversity/becoming-a-critical-educator-critical-pedagogy-in-community-colleges-b51523bcffe8
I found this article interesting because it really speaks to how some students feel about 'not enough time for discussion or dialogue".  every Tuesday (Monday is our online day) I have a 7 minute brain dump - where the students have to write out everything they remember from the online lecture/power point.  then they break into groups and collaborate then into class and discuss as a group.  Lots of questions are answered in this manner and the students have more control over the outcomes of their learning

]]> 2019-10-07 20:22:30 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/394711692 https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/394801983 I found this article to be so relevant to understanding why critical thinking is so important and how our learning environment influences our ability to develop good critical thinking skills. ]]> 2019-10-08 02:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/394801983 https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395052098 2019-10-08 14:21:51 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395052098 https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395053400 Jillian Lalli
This article was useful to me. My students many times are coming back to school as adults and have been out of the education system for many years!

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/49697/5-strategies-to-demystify-the-learning-process-for-struggling-students ]]> 2019-10-08 14:23:29 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395053400 https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395281157 by Karlee Sorensen
I found this useful because I am finding that using different formats for assessments, challenges for test reviews and students engagement enables me to capture and maintain student excitement for class content.

]]> 2019-10-08 19:45:44 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395281157 https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395298486 Hi, this is David Uryash and I wanted to share this short tutorial on how to create a Kahoot! quiz. I was shown this game by my IBEST Instructor and have become a fan. Kahoot is a connected quiz qame you build and play in class in real time. Students use their devices or a computer to join the game and answer questions. It was very effective for me to get my students engaged in a review session and I will be doing them often!]]> 2019-10-08 20:26:07 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395298486 https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395340474 Jennifer Whipple
This is a link to a short article about bringing authenticity to the classroom. This goes along with the concepts of andragogy vs. pedagogy. Bringing real work into the classroom.]]> 2019-10-08 22:47:21 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395340474 https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395351848 Hi, I'm Maria deCorpo. As a CTE (Career & Technical Education) teacher I'm always looking at ways to get students engaged and excited about the Lecture/Theory portions of the curriculum and not just the hands-on Labs.  This handbook gives some great suggestions - some I already use, but many I am eager to try out.]]> 2019-10-08 23:40:13 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395351848 https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395410904 I've been thinking about mixing some elements of the Socratic Method into my discussions with students. I found this link interesting. https://education.cu-portland.edu/blog/classroom-resources/should-educators-use-the-socratic-method-of-teaching/

-Matt Ziels]]> 2019-10-09 04:21:42 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395410904 https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395417081 What adult learners really need
Hi guys I'm Aaron Barquet.
I just read this article in the NPR higher ed blog. I found it perfectly relevant for our course.
Often times I hear the phrase "what the industry needs." I do understand that we train adults to become workers in our industry, that's evident, but is that all we can and should provide our adult students with?
This article explores that grey area, the other part that, I feel, often times we tend to assume is there, but we don't really seem to pay attention to, our students dreams. I mean, not only children have dreams, adults still dream, they do have big dreams and not only financial ones. They want to explore and find the inner voices and full fill a lot of personal goals and dreams. Some of them want to continue learning and get a bachelor's degree and masters. Some want to become entrepreneurs and succeed in the world of business. Others just love learning and want to continue cultivating their minds. How are we making sure we also serve them in these areas? Is the role of the community or technical college to do that? I think it is, but why? For a very simple reason, our adult students deserve the greatest education we can possibly offer.]]> 2019-10-09 05:14:46 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395417081 https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395419045 https://www.pacer.org/publications/fasttraining/Other/teachingadults-whattrainersneedtoknow.pdf

Tara Murphy]]> 2019-10-09 05:29:59 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395419045 https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395420311 I found this article so interest to discuss adult learning theory.



https://www.learnupon.com/blog/adult-learning-theory/]]> 2019-10-09 05:40:27 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395420311 https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395424601 As I was reading about Knowles' principles of adult learning, I was struck by how it alighs with Guided Pathways- especially the first principle of adult learners wanting to know why they are learning and how it will apply to their lives. One of the guiding principles of GP is to clearly articulate pathways of courses to degrees to careers so that students have access to the information they need to make informed decisions about their own pathways.

Laura Knight]]> 2019-10-09 06:12:03 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395424601 https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395874649 I found this blurb on the "Answer Sheet" column of The Washington Post December 19, 2014, Columnist Valerie Strauss.  Ms Strauss paraphrases information from a comprehensive blog written by Ellie Herman, a celebrated film editor and movie producer who left her career and became a high school teacher in inner-city Los Angeles. Of course, this information in context applied to padogogy--the teaching of youths--but because of that applies even more to adult education, as adults tend to have more highly formed barriers of prejudice and pre-conceived notions than do young persons. Ms. Herman essentially listed five characteristics that were common to educators she considered "terrible."  Columnist Strauss paraphrased the Herman blog and I, in turn, will paraphrase her paraphrase for purposes of relative brevity.  Herman challenged readers (her readership being teachers) to self-evaluate to determine if they are indeed "terrible" teachers. The criteria is as follows:
1. Do we (as educators) dislike students?  It is inevitable that teachers will like some students more than others, but do we dislike students as a general group?;
2.  Do we find our subject matter dull?  If we are asked "Why do we have to learn this?  The "terrible teacher's first reaction will be 'because it's on the test!.', destroying any applicability that might exist;  3.  Do we as teachers know what we are talking about?  (I have a personal experience in this; one of my elementary teachers stated that any number divided by Zero is Zero, which almost anyone, including elementary students that are fed this, know that dividing by Zero is undefined and impossible.  This teacher stuck to her incompetence on this issue.;  4. Do we as teachers ignore most of our students, with the exception of a few smiling eager students that seem to be invariably in every class? Again, a guarantee that the class is well on its way to being lost; and, 5. Are we TOTALLY disengaged to the whole setting?  The preceding are a composite guarantee that such a teacher should be in another (nearly ANY other) profession besides educating. Ms. Herman then reassured any who may have found themselves on the wrong answer side of these questions that they are NOT bad teachers. BAD teachers would not have considered the entire list nor read to the end of the article. The readers thus cared about reaching students as a teacher, for which there are remedies and opportunities for improvement available.  This sort of seems like stating "a keen grasp of the obvious" but some of these attitudes can appear without our anticipation.. I though it was interesting piece of writing.---

Clif DeWitt, Renton Technical College]]> 2019-10-09 21:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395874649 https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395963481 Jazmine McDonald 
Here is a article I found about understanding the way adults learn and also understanding what an adult learner is. ]]> 2019-10-10 05:03:01 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/395963481 inikolayeva https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/397573465
Here are some ideas that can help educators gain a basic understanding of adult learner characteristics.  It will help the adult educators understand adults students better. 
It's important to know the reasons for Adult Learning, how to use some strategies to motivate Adult Learners, understanding learning style of AL, etc. 

- Irena Nikolayeva

]]> 2019-10-14 18:34:05 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/397573465 inikolayeva https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/397590241 Andragogy is the method and practice of teaching adult learners; adult education. I have never heard this word before. I was pleasantly surprised to learn about the art and science of helping Adults Learn. There are two different links here.
http://www.instructionaldesign.org/theories/andragogy/

- Irena Nikolayeva]]> 2019-10-14 19:11:47 UTC https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/397590241 https://padlet.com/message/teachingtools/wish/402132325 I found this recent article interesting because it shares about the importance of peer to peer support for our adult learners.
-Angela Bay

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