Workplace Tips for Adult Learners

Knowing the profile of your colleagues IS IMPORTANT.

However, here's some general tips we can employ in workplace with adult learners:

1. Keep learning short
2. Connect learning to the work
3. Create a learning-friendly workplace
4. Reward those who pay attention
5. Measure the effectiveness of attention-increasing techniques

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Building the Relationship

Remember the 3Rs?

Relationship
Relevance
Rigor

Which of the 3R heavily depends on the instructor / trainer / coach?

In order to build the relationship between the instructor and learner:

1. Don't tell facts, tell stories (make it personal)
2. Make fun of yourself (gain their trust)
3. Use small touches for close conversations (make it comfortable)

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Public Speaking Tips

got these great tips to share when you are making public speeches:

1. Start with the unexpected
2. Make it about them
3. Make it concrete at the start
4. Keep it moving
5. Get to the point
6. Arouse emotion
7. Get it interactive
8. Write clear headlines
9. Keep it short
10. Let there be you

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Classroom Tricks For Young Learners

embedding a compilation youtube video here on different techniques used by teachers to gain the attention of their young learners in classroom context..

or you can scan the QR code for easy access in the future..

Its simpler than you think..

7 tips to gain our learners' attention

Don't be scared to try.. all it takes, is a little bit of practice..

Mid-Week Meme

Why do we need to do this?

You might have this question, or sceptical thoughts of "Gaining learners' attention, really?"

My simple answer: "YES!"

and here's my 1-min intro video to spice things up a little here..

(1 way of gaining attention lah.. ^^)

Furthermore, Gagne's 9 instructional events states that the very first event is to gain the attention of our audience.  Gagne (1916 - 2002) is an American educational psychologist best known for his "conditions of learning".

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