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Teaching Adults
Effective Financial
Literacy Training in the
Community
Consumer Action: Teaching Adults
Why Adults Want To Learn
 To gain knowledge or a skill
they need
 To better manage changes in
their lives
 To keep up with environment
changes
 To increase or maintain a sense
of self-esteem
Consumer Action: Teaching Adults
Adults learn best when:
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teaching is built upon their own
experiences
they can apply what they have
learned immediately to their own
lives
there is a mixture of teaching
approaches
the learning environment is
friendly, informal and comfortable
Consumer Action: Teaching Adults
Effective teaching
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The best presentations are
dynamic, responsive and
organic, not canned.
Keep your class size small.
 No more than 30 students
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Draw on life experiences, your
own as well as theirs.
Consumer Action: Teaching Adults
Care about your audience
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Make them feel welcomed and
comfortable.
Be respectful.
Make eye contact.
Allow time for them to ask
questions.
Take time to break into small
interactive learning groups.
Consumer Action: Teaching Adults
Effective teaching
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Many people have a short
attention span
 Try to keep lectures to a maximum
of 30 minutes
– Stop for questions and answers
– Follow up with a learning
activity
Consumer Action: Teaching Adults
Use a mixture of approaches
and learning styles
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Visual: reading or seeing
 (5-10% retention)
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Auditory: listening
 (20-25% retention)
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Psychomotor: doing
 (70-75% retention)
Consumer Action: Teaching Adults
A good teacher of adults*
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Is people-centered, more interested
in people than things, more
interested in individuality than
conformity, and more interested in
finding solutions than following
rules.
The teacher must be
understanding, flexible, patient,
humorous, practical, creative and
prepared.
 How to Teach Adults, William A Draves, The
Learning Resource Network
Consumer Action: Teaching Adults
Contact
Consumer Action
1. Web: www.consumer-action.org
2. Phone: 415-777-9648. Ask for
“Outreach”
3. Email:
[email protected]
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