Get Your Students Hired
Adult students need positive. reinforcement and feel safe in a classroom environment
In regards to security and autonomy, always provide positive feedback even if the student is provides wrong answers, shutting the student down brings down their security. Autonomy can be used by giving options when doing assignments, allowing to choose the type of assignments whenever possible.
It's important to allow students to feel secure in their learning experience so that they remain motivated.
I learned there are certain behaviors that indicate adult students are motivated. I learned adult learners need security and self-perception. I learned they also need some sort of autonomy as well.
In the Module I learned that security and autonomy is important to motivate adult students. I plan to use positive reinforcement and constructive criticism to build their knowledge and confidence.
Adult learners need to feel secure and autonomous. Providing an environment to promote those things will lead to motivated learners.
I can enhance autonomy during assignments by offering the power of choice
1. allow them to choose from a list of activities
2. allow the to arrange order of assignments
Enhanced security in relation to motivation can be essential to outcomes. I will work on providing and using more supportive responses and asking non threatening questions.
Adult students are motivated by the work and life experience they bring.
Provide opportunities for students to make choices that will impact their learning processes in a positive way. Allow multiple opportunities to test student knowledge and allow students to drop the lowest grade of their choice.
I learned that security and autonomy are huge in the success of adult learners and ways of incorporating them into the class.
Encourage to become involved and secure when participating in class dynamic. The section on autonomy had good suggestions to implement and allow the student to work within group or independatly.
I start each class with a general understanding of what we will cover and an opportunity to go over any question from prior lessons. I tend to use a Socratic method. I will lecture and then open up a question. For example I may lecture on a concept and then ask a current event question to help illustrate the concept. I always allow students to ask questions and will even go a little off topic. Then I will take the question and response and relate them back to the topic at hand.
Listening to your students - especially when it's a Q and A session. Rather than saying "no" to a response and moving on to another student with the correct answer, it's important for the instructor to respond in a more encouraging manner.