Andragogy (My Pinnacle Experience)

Any clue what Andragogy is?  Yep....I didn't either.  Imagine this:

You are presenting a technology workshop to a group of teachers.  Needless to say, there are many different personalities and needs.  You have the ¨small¨ (and I do mean small) group of teachers that can pretty much figure things out on their own along with the ones that need some instruction to complete a project.  Then you have the ones that have no clue in the entire world what is going on, except how to answer their cell phone. How can you teach to all of these adults without boring some and without leaving the others behind.

Andragogy consists of teaching strategies focused on adults (thank you Google).  Low and behold, us teacher folk have been teaching adults like children for years.  Who knew?  So now the question is, how to we start teaching adults like adults.  Good question...Right?

I was fortunate to hear some great information today on how to change these ways.  It really does make perfect sense that if we teach adults in the way that we want to be taught, we will get along much better (and not have things thrown at us :-)   Adults like to have choices on how they will be taught.  I know that in my school, there are several that need that one on one attention but then there are others that can easily make their way through the task with minimal assistance.

So....my take away is;

• teach adults they way that you want to be taught
• adults have background knowledge

Look it Up......(can you hear Ashton Shepherd singing???)  There's some great knowledge to be learned!!