Training of Trainers

Principles of Adult
Learning

Javed Mazher |
javed.mazher@yahoo.com

Objectives of the
session
Better understanding of adult
learning
How to make the learning personal, real and
engaging
8 tips that improve your odds for success

Not a how to train

session

Javed Mazher |
javed.mazher@yahoo.com

Adult Learning

Adult learningis defined as 'the

entire range of formal, non-formal and
informallearning, activities which are
undertaken byadultsafter a break
since leaving initial education and
training, which results in the
acquisition of new knowledge and
skills'.

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8 Principles of Adult Learning

1

Active
Learning

Active
participation
through
discussion,
feedback and
activities creates
more learning
than passive
3listening.

Previous
Experience

New information
has to be linked to
previous
knowledge and
experience or it
will not be
remembered.

Problemcentric

Adults are not

there just to get
more information.
If your
presentation
doesnt help them
solve their
pressing issues, it
4 will be forgotten.

Relevance
If the information
being presented is
not relevant to
the listeners life
and work, it will
not get their
attention. .
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8 Principles of Adult Learning

5

Emotional
Connection

Presentations that
connect with a
learners
emotions are
more likely to be
remembered,
recalled and
Alignment
learned.

7Adults expect that

a presenters
content, learning
outcomes and
activities be
aligned together. If
the learning
outcomes do not
match the content,
the learner feels
disconnected and
learning is
hampered.

6 Self Learning

Adult learners
have some strong
beliefs about how
they learn. These
beliefs, whether
accurate or not,
can interfere or
enhance their
learning.

Fun
Learning should
be fun! As a
presenter, if you
are not having fun
presenting your
information and
facilitating
learning, then you
should stop.

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Do not tell adult WHAT

IS THIS
Tell them HOW &
WHERE IT WILL WORK

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Who are yourparticipants?

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The learner

The curse of
knowledge

is acognitive biasthat leads

better-informed parties to find
it extremely difficult to think
about problems from the
perspective of lesser-informed
parties.

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Percept
ion
Bias

We put
colors on
what we
learn

Belief
Stop being a
prisoner of your
own mind!!!
Experien
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8 tips that improve your odds for

success as a trainer
1. Credibility

5.
Practical

2. Accurate

6.
Usefulnes
s
7.
Involve

3. Relevant

8.
Affirmatio
n

4. Current

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Your training session should not

resemble a Wedding reception.
Have you ever attended marriage receptions where you met up with a lot
of people?
Pretty- courteous folks,
chatty, breezy, mindless conversational overload,
lots of namesand polite smiles exchanged, and THEN!
Manyreturned
of the Training
upfaces
beingwere soon forgotten.
You
homeSessions
and theend
new
like these wedding receptions
Lots of Participants
Plenty of information which is downloaded and
passed on,
Innumerable data- and-graph- heavy PPTs add
nausea
And THEN
You wondered what did you really go there for?
In this age of internet and information
world, it is obtuse to just dump
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which they can easily procure from the web or

4 methods of adult
learning

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Adult Learning
Cycle
What you
see/ observe
OR face

Now What??
Use strategies
youve planned

Experie
nce

Reflect

Apply

Conclud
e

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What?
Review of
information related
to experience

So What??
What and how
you can do

Exercise 1:
Who is the V.I.P in the Workshop?
In any training set up:the trainer,
the learner & the learning (content)
are the three elements which
interact.
Ideal learning happens at the
meeting point of these.
Alternatively, let us suppose that
these three elements form a
triangle.
The question then arises:Which
side of the triangle is the most
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Traine
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Learne
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Learni
ng

Exercise 2:
Game of recap
the BUCKET and the BALL Game

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In learning you will teach,

and in teaching you will
learn..

Javed Mazher |
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Thank
you!