9. Thought Experiment Imagine You and your students are coming to class after a full day at work. The class lasts from 6:00 to 10:00 in the evening. How might this affect the students’ ability to learn? … Your ability to teach? What could you do to help everybody get the most out of the experience?
10. Thought Experiment Imagine Your “students” are adults. They have years of experience with life and work. How might this influence the approach you take in your teaching? … How you interact with your students?
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12. Learn best by drawing on prior experience (even errors)
13. Want to help set the direction for their learning
14. Are most interested in things of immediate relevance to work and/or personal lives
20. Vary the texture of class by interspersing mini-lectures with discussions, case studies, debates, group work, simulations, and other active learning strategies
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22. Reveal something about yourself, including professional experience relevant to the course
23. Identify the value and importance of the subject (especially why you value the subject)
28. How might you adapt the lesson plan to meet the needs of this particular group?
29. How does the work for this week build upon that for the previous week (and foreshadow work to come)? What can you do to help students know where they are in this learning process?