Adult Learners Week 2008

I have put together a list of resources that might be inspiring for both teachers of adult learners and the learners themselves. Hopefully we can all learn something by browsing through some of these resources.

Teaching Skills

• Teachers who change lives – leading Australian educationists Andrew Metcalfe and Ann game cast new light on the processes of teaching and learning


• Inspiring active learning : a handbook for teachers – commonsense strategies to motivate students to become active learners •


• Teaching problem solving in vocational education Rebecca Sodden argues that thinking skills are most effectively developed along with vocational competencies and offers novel but practical strategies for lessons


• The Adult learner at work ( a comprehensive guide to the psychology and methods of learning for the workplace


• How to teach reading : when you're not a reading teacher - Discover ways that you can:- develop effective lessons to help your students increase academic vocabulary, comprehension skills, and fluency in your content- create a risk-free environment and increase student achievement- select fun and effective ways to engage all of your students in comprehension and vocabulary instruction- respond to your struggling readers by increasing engagement and adapting classroom practice


• Learning in adulthood : a comprehensive guide – looks at most recent research in Adult Education • Dimensions of adult learning : adult education and training in a global era


• How to teach adults in a fun and exciting way by Doug Malouf


• Becoming a Critically reflective teacher by stephen Brookfield

Learning with Technology

• Educating the net Generation: how to engage students in the 21st century•


• E-learning:m teaching and professional development with the internet•


• Blogs, wikis Podcasts and other powerful Web tools for classrooms


• Online learning and Teaching with technology
  

Education

• Fifty modern thinkers on education : from Piaget to the present

Study Skills

• Study smart : a guide to successful study at TAFE – looks at everything for effective study for tafe students from time management to taking


• Study secrets ; everything your lectures will never tell you – looks at effective study methods