Concepts in adult education.

• Indicate to the student that they have a responsibility to learn, • Allow students to check if the programme is being delivered, • Create a framework for assessing the students and evaluating teaching programs. Objectives should be: • Comprehensive, • Dynamic. Essential criteria for the objectives should be that they communicate instructional intent, that they are specific and testable. Instructional methods may include: 1. Lectures, which: • are very efficient – they deliver a lot of material to many people in a short time • can deliver the entire core curriculum • However, in a lecture we don’t know if the audience is listening and/or understanding. Thus, one may use: 2. Problem-based learning, which incorporates the following steps and has the following advantages: • The tutor poses a problem and students have to solve it, • The tutor acts as a guide not the resource person, • The students collect information and share it in a tutorial setting, • It is time-consuming/labor intensive, • It is enjoyable and effective for clinical teaching. Instructional material may include: slides (which should always be clear) and handouts (which should be printed). The management of the teaching environment should aim at keeping the audience’s attention (with clear crisp messages and by avoiding minute detail). Questioning may help in keeping the audience’s attention, but may also hinder it (depending on the question). A teaching plan must include: • An introduction (announces what one intends to cover), • A dialogue (the body of the teaching episode), Concepts in adult education