It is important to know about three aspects before you prepare a class for adults- their motivation, curriculum and class-design.

The motivation of adult learner is quite different from children’s . Specific life changes drive them to learn and in proportion to learning events, they prefer more practical, directly-related, useful knowledge.

The curriculum should connect closely with adults’ prior knowledge, experience relevant problems. Although they prefer single study , it doesn’t mean we don’t have to prepare face-to-face and one-to-one events. It’s a good way not to use nonhuman media,just giving straightforward how-to content,without so much risky trying.

When instructor design the class, they need to create a comfortable environment for adults, both physically and psychologically. Meantime, the curriculum should be connected with their experience and make a integration with their prior knowledge.

Even though you can provide a good training or lesson or adults, it is very difficult to let them keep what you said and taught for a long time.

People will have forgotten the majority of information, however , brain can focus some important sensory information and forget something which is no longer useful.As fro how to retain the important information in brain, in other words, how to transfer the time-limited memories to long-term retention, is to recall or review the information with booster methods to reshape their forgetting curve. When information comes into our mind, our brain seems an encoder. And everything will pass through short-term memory, which we can image as a tube, everything comes through and pass away, with only short-term stay.

What is the optimum ways to author and deliver information? The answer is Boost. Using ‘2+2+2’ principle to repeat learners’ memories and different types of questions. However, booster doesn’t mean teach again or re-touch, it is just a signal for the brain that the information is important and should not be forgot.

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