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Basic Competencies for Adult Educators

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Session dates26–30 Aug 2024
LocationEma Antalya
Duration5 days
FundingErasmus+ eligible

About this course

Adult learners aren’t just older students. They arrive with existing careers, existing failures with formal education, and existing reasons to walk out of a room that feels like school — which is exactly why a general “good teaching” course doesn’t automatically transfer to adult education. In 2010 a study funded by the European Commission proposed…

Methodology

Role-Play and Practical Application

You practise a difficult moment in an adult group and try your redesigned session on colleagues, who play the learners.

Group Work and Invented Learner Cases

Group work, experience sharing and workshop sessions are built around three invented adult-learner profiles, so nobody has to share a real learner's details.

Culturally Grounded Learning

Content and methods are examined in cultural context, helping trainers adapt what they learn to their own setting.

What you'll take home

Read a group of adult learners through four adult-learning theories (behaviourism, cognitivism, constructivism and transformative learning) and use them to explain a barrier and a motivation.

Use communication strategies to manage group dynamics in adult learning settings.

Select and apply a teaching method suited to an adult learner's barrier and motivation, and redesign one of your own sessions around it.

Support adult learners to take an active, responsible part in their own learning.

Place your own practice on the 2010 competence set and choose one competence to work on next.

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Romanian 22%
Polish 16%
Lithuanian 9%
Portuguese 8%
Bulgarian 7%

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