1. Train the Trainer
Adult Learning Principles
and Facilitation

2. Characteristics of Adult Learners
 Self-directing
 Experience becomes
foundation and resource
in learning
 Readiness to learn
oriented to
developmental tasks of
social roles
 Need to see immediate
application of knowledge
 Internal motivators

3. Assumptions about Adult Learners
1. Adults need to know
why, what, and how they
will learn
2. Adults need to learn
experientially
3. Adults approach
learning as problem-
solving
4. Adults learn best when
the topic is of immediate
value.
5. Adults view learning as
an active process in the
construction of meaning

4. Laws of Learning
 Doing
 Effect
 Exercise
 Primacy

5. How we Learn-Auditory, Visual,
Kinesthetic
We learn: We Remember:
1% through taste 10% of what we read
1.5% through touch 20% of what we hear
3.5% through smell 30% of what we see
11% through 50% of what we see
hearing and hear
83% through sight 80% of what we say
90% of what we say
as we act

7. 9 Principles of Adult Learning
R Recency
A Appropriateness
M Motivation
P Primacy
2 2 – way communication
F Feedback
A Active Learning
M Multi-sense learning
E Exercise

8. Methods of Instruction
Telling
 70% recall 3 hrs
 10% recall 3 days
Showing
 72% recall 3 hrs
 20% recall 3 days
Show & Tell
 85% recall 3 hrs
 65% recall 3 days

9. Adult Learners
 are goal-oriented and
opportunity driven
 Use their experience to
help out their learning
 Learn best in informal,
pleasant environments

10. Our Role as Trainers
Expert
Transmits information about a subject
to an audience
Planner
Designs or plans the learning
experience or the learning environment

11. Our Role as Trainers
Instructor
Guides or directs the learning situation
often telling the student what to do
Facilitator
Responds to the student's needs and
lends guidance and support

12. Our Role as Trainers
Resource Person
Provides materials and information to
the students
Model Role
Models or influences behavior and
values
Co-Learner
Learns along side the student.
Mutually plans the learning goals

13. Effective Facilitation
 Establish a comfortable
learning environment
 Develop and manage
participation
 Deliver a clear and concise
message
 Elicit feedback

14. Resources:
Name of Web Page URL
Seven Characteristics of Highly http://www.newhorizons.org/article_billington1.
Effective Adult Learning Programs html
Teaching Adults: Is it Different? http://www.ericacve.org/docs/teac-adu.htm
The Skillful use of questions in http://www.joshhunt.com/question.html
teaching adults
Learning to Learn Site http://snow.utoronto.ca/Learn2/introll.html
Teaching Tips Index http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/
FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm
On line training manual http://www.queensu.ca/idc/trainers/index.html
Adult Learning Principles http://www.sfx.adl.catholic.edu.au/adult_learnin
g_principles.htm
Using Adult Learning Principles in http://ericacve.org/docs/pab00008.htm
Adult Basic and Literacy Education
Adult Learning Online http://www.agt.net/public/tddewar/oned2.html

15. Resources: Evidence-Based
Name of Web Page URL
MedlinePlus Guide to Healthy Web http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthyweb
Surfing surfing.html
Evidence-Based Education http://www.ons.org/nursingEd/documents/p
Guidelines dfs/guidelines.pdf
HealthLinks University of http://healthlinks.washington.edu/howto/ci
Washington nal
Searching Cinahl: Nursing and
Allied Health
Welcome to Evidence-Based http://www.biomed.lib.umn.edu/learn/ebp/
Practice: An Interprofessional
Tutorial
NGC-National Guideline http://www.guidelines.gov/
Clearinghouse

16. Let’s Practice!