This chart provides an overview of training events, Board-recommended curricula, and materials available to support each meeting. More downloads are avilable in the Download Center . The purpose of adult education is to help adults learn, not to teach them what you want them to know thus stopping them from actual learning. Educator Robert Deabyshire has developed the following profile of an adult learner compared to younger students.
Adults are more realistic.
They have lived longer and have a different perspective on life. They see life less idealistically and more as a set of realities. They like to see theory applied to practical problems. Adults have more experience. They have insights and see relationships not discerned by children.