Preface
Understand Your Situation!
Set Behavioral Objectives
Use Action Verbs
Take One Step
Take a Second Step
Test Your Objectives
Develop a Schedule
Know about Adult Learners
Principles of Adult
Learning
Learning Styles
Select the Strategies
Focus on Your Objectives
Find Out What They Know Already
Vary Your Strategies
Presentation
Discussion
Cooperative Learning Activities
Experiential Activities
Select the Materials
Do It Yourself
Borrow — with Care
Be More than Just a Talking Text
Plan Each Session
Start by Setting
Objectives
Decide on Activities
Know What to Put In and What to Leave Out
Plan Transitions
Plan an Introduction
Attend to the Details
Start Instructing!
Ease into Work
Show a Sense of Humor … or at Least a Human Side
Act, React, Interact
Close the Session
Follow up on Each Session
Elicit Reactions from
Learners
Evaluate Yourself
Motivate
Keep in Mind the
Characteristics of Adult Learners
Consider Other General Factors
Find Out about the Learners as Individuals
Motivate from the Start
Learn from the Questions They Ask
Learn from the Answers They Give
Consider Using the Systematic
Instruction Model
Use Instructional Media Effectively
Evaluate
Evaluate the Learners
Have the Learners Evaluate the Course and You
Keep Current
Keep Your Materials
Current and Effective
Keep Fresh and Enthusiastic
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