Heart of Adult Learning: Ideas, Exercises and Tools for Helping Your Students Grow

Working with adults in the learning environment is something quite profound. Not only do you help them to learn a new skill, develop a new understanding or achieve a personal goal, you assist them in living better lives. This book is a creative, practical, inspiring guide for transforming the average teacher into a master teacher of adult education. Adult students, having completed their formal education, are returning to class in greater numbers than ever. They thrive in a class that is a supportive community where shared insights and participative learning not only expand their minds but transform their lives. How will you lead a heart-centered learning environment? How will you design exciting, powerful, educational exercises for your students? How will you manage the personalities, the information, the flow of your class? What is the secret at the center of the class that will answer all of your questions? How will you continue to refresh yourself and stay inspired as a teacher? Page-by-page, this book pours out a wealth of creative ideas, tools and rules of thumb to answer these questions and to support you in creating dynamic, exciting, successful classes for your students. It is the essential creative handbook for those who love teaching adults