First Assignment (6 Characteristics of Adult Learners) Mark McDonald II 08/23/2013 Six Characteristics In my research‚ I have found that preparing for the adult learner is much different than one might think. In this first assignment‚ I explore six characteristics of adult learners‚ identify training that we currently offer that honors one of the six characteristics‚ and identify a possible improvement that will honor this characteristic. I have learned as adult educators in the blood banking
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many presentations or lectures‚ I find that in most instances I error on the side of caution by having too much material in the outline for the class or presentation. I think many of us do this to prepare for that rare case where we have a group of learners who are extremely disengaged with the process and subject. The short seminar‚ ’Why has the Promise of On-line Learning Failed Financially’‚ presented on Tuesday evening‚ October 23‚ was no exception to this trend of too much material. However‚ what
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are many roles and responsibilities that are the duties of the professional. There are both social and individual needs of this profession. Some social needs include preventing and understanding child abuse‚ homelessness‚ and prison overcrowding. Some individual needs include suicide prevention‚ mental health help‚ and justice for victims. Preventing and understanding child abuse is one social need of the criminal justice profession. Child abuse is when a parent or caregiver causes harm to a child
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billion of National Lottery and Treasury funding until 2017. The amount of funding clearly shows how highly sport is valued by the government. Teaching sport not only practically but also theoretically‚ in my opinion‚ is crucial to the role that the government is trying to achieve in promoting sport to young people throughout Britain. A great deal of people perceive sport to be a ’doss ’ subject where learners play sport and obtain level two and upwards qualifications with minimum effort‚ whereas infact
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This historical document is derived from a 1990 APA presidential task force (revised in 1997). LEARNER-CENTERED PSYCHOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES: A Framework for School Reform & Redesign TABLE OF CONTENTS: Background Learner-Centered Principles Prepared by the Learner-Centered Principles Work Group of the American Psychological Association ’s Board of Educational Affairs (BEA)‚ November 1997 BACKGROUND Throughout its history‚ psychology has provided vital information for the design of schooling based
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than teaching listening in the classroom. My learners‚ who are living and studying in Australia‚ often view understanding the news as a major achievement in their listening development. It is an authentic text that they have free‚ repeated access to on a daily basis. However‚ lower level learners often view news reports as something that is above their level and totally incomprehensible. My aim is to develop my teaching of strategies to help learners become more successful in understanding news
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Assignment 2: focus on the learner 1- Background to the learner: My student is called Samir Salem Abdullah Al-Ahsani. He is an Omani student working as an employee in the Bouhelba Company. He speaks Arabic which is his mother tongue and a little English. He’s at the elementary level at Polyglot Institute. He first studied English in the Omani public schools where he didn’t learn much according to him. He felt he couldn’t respond ‚when talked to in English‚ and needs to improve his speaking skills
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which you would establish ground rules with your learners‚ which underpin behaviour and respect for others. How I would establish ground rules for learners would depend on age and experience of the learning group. I would expect an older and more experienced group of learners to be more mature and establish ground rules based on how they would expect people to behave in a group-learning environment‚ for example a popular mantra is “treat others how you would expect to be treat yourself”.
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Having to learn a life lesson is hard for all human to do‚ no matter how old they are. This is just what happens to the young adults in How I Met My Husband by Alice Munro and A&P by John Updike. The main characters‚ Sammy in A&P and Edie in How I Met My Husband‚ do just this. In these short stories‚ Munro and Updike use lust to Both of these short stories not only have young innocent teens who fall into the envy of lust‚ but they share many other similarities. Both stories seem to be set in the
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learning and development The function of assessment in learning and development is to provide a measure for the learners progress. Assessment is carried out through checks throughout the course‚ and at end of course. activities can help the learner to see their development whilst allowing the Assessor to give valuable feedback when appropriate. This is to measure the learners understanding of the subject set by the criteria. For example: Assessments provide clear measurements and recording
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