What do we do NOW

In this new class for the Fall quarter, we were asked to create a blog to journal changes and insights from this class called, "Adult Learning Theory and Instructional Strategies." I am looking forward to seeing where this leads and my travels through it all.

• I am current working with the City and county of Denver as a Career Development Facilitator/ Assessment. My primary audience are adult learners. These are individuals who are classified as our "non traditional job seeker" or considered the hard to employ population. I am directly involved with the design of curriculum, facilitation, program implementation and design. I have worked with Adult learners for 16 years.
• My future plans in working the Adult Students is to expand my knowledge and application base about how I facilitate change and current and future curriculum to insure that the fundamental principles of workplace guidelines and structure will be applied when they return back the job market or enter into it for the first time.
• My knowledge base of Adult learning theories is more in application and practice and the reciting of formulation years and those who developed them. General concepts that I apply are the principles that each adult learner has to find out how they learn in order to embrace the process of understanding information as it relates to themselves and the world around them. The more effcient they are in knowing about them, the more receptive they will be accepting the information that is presented to them.
• As an adult learner I know some key things about myself: 1) I love information, but being spoken to like a child shuts down my reception to the one that is instructing. 2) I am teachable. I can admit when I have missed it and graciously take that correction and add it to my tool box so that I can be more effective. 3) I love taking information that is complex and making it applicable to my life and those that I effect. 4) I know that learning to me is life.
• As this course progresses, my goal is to be a more effective Trainer/facilitator and take my instruction and knowledge of the Adult learner to the next level.