Fall 1986 // Volume 24 // Number 3 // Tools of the Trade // 3TOT2
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Helping Others Learn
Abstract
Helping Others Learn: Programs for Adults. Patricia A. McLagan. Menlo Park, California: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1985. 101 pp. $9.95.
If you "read" this 8 1/2 x 11 workbook, you'll:
- Recognize that McLagan also includes change in creativity in her definition of learning.
- Identify at least six things you can do to motivate adults to learn information new to them.
- Pick up several tips about organizing information for easier "processing."
- Sketch a pattern of circles, squares, triangles, and diamonds to plan a sequence of activities that enables participants to think, observe, experiment, and then apply their learning.
- Review a dozen and a half teaching techniques and action-oriented guidelines to use each one effectively.
- Connect different teaching techniques to different learning styles and objectives.
- Develop four strategies to help adults transfer their learning to real life.
And, you'll also:
- Spot graphics galore!
- Catch the author's main points in concise summaries.
- Invest about 101 minutes - roughly a minute a page.
On the other hand, in this fifth printing, dated 1985, you:
- Won't see references published since 1976 cited in the bibliography.
- May not agree with McLagan's assertion that adults are "serial information processors."
But, overall, Helping Others Learn is one of the doing-est workbooks I've done in a long time!