Joseph Bargdill

Yes, adult learning is a huge spectrum of diversity.  It is about what is needed for future employment or ability to complete specific tasks in ones industry.  

Something I have been pondering lately is the fact that a person with a Masters or PhD spends less time with a lot of technical application and in general does not respond as quickly in a hands on training environment as a person with less education but more work experience.

The next interesting thing I'm noticing is when you are looking for the job it only requires in most places a bachelors degree, but when you search for the teaching job it requires a masters degree or higher.  The interesting fact I notice is that most of those jobs as… >>>

here is an interesting site about multiple ways of learning based off experiences

http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-learning-styles-research

http://www.worldwidelearn.com/education-articles/how-do-you-learn.htm

changing minds is difficult especially if an entire classroom is negative and not recieving of the lesson plans.  Finding a way they learn I have found...makes all the difference.  Usually a person will block the learning process because their entire life they feel up to this point it is not worth their time.  This can be found in adult learning more than in younger generation.  I notice older adults more distracting when it comes to material they are not willing to participate in.  They best way is to find out how they interact with the world through dialogue.  Conversation and… >>>

Learning student names was very difficult for me, but I would tell them on day one that I am not good with names.  I would give myself two weeks and not reference the names until I was lecturing.  I started using the students name inside my lecture using them as examples.  That gave me a couple weeks to learn the names and associate it with their faces, I also got to impress them with my memory recall after announcing i'm not good with names, and it also is good as an attention grabber if  I see somebody texting and use… >>>