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COURSE OBJECTIVES

COURSE OBJECTIVES
At the completion of this seminar, given active participation, each student will be able to perform the following:

  1. Identify demographic, social and technological changes resulting in increasing demands for adult learning opportunities.
  2. Analyze the adult as learner and on the basis of research data create profiles of those who participate in the most common forms of adult learning.
  3. Critique current selected theories of adult learning (humanistic, developmental, behavioral, andragogical).
  4. Trace the stages of adult development and relate them to learners needs.
  5. 5. Identify, analyze, and justify principles of effective practice in teaching adults basic, academic, workplace, and personal management skills.
  6. 6. Analyze learning style and multiple intelligencies and apply to the teaching of adults.
  7. Identify, analyze, and justify principles of effective practice in facilitating adult learning.
  8. Describe the roles of facilitation in adult learning and evaluate those roles in the context of the central themes in self-directed learning.
  9. Explore and describe the effects of aging on learning.
  10. Develop knowledge about competencies identified by the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary skills (SCANS) and prepare programs to implement those competencies.
  11. Visit an adult education facility to analyze mission, programs, and types of adult learners.
  12. Further develop own skill in becoming a self-directed learner.
  13. (student's objective here)