Adult Learning Theories
Purpose: Explore Adult learning theories and how they are connected to coaching
What is it?
What is it?
Putting into Practice
Putting into Practice
Transformational Learning - Mezirow (1991, 2000)
Experiential Learning - Kolb (1984)
Theory to Application
Theory to Application
Kolb's Pedagogical Approach
Mezirow's 10 Phases
Resources
Resources
Connection to Coaching
Connetion to Coaching
Reflection - Don't forget
Literacy instruction is changing throughout the country, and your district is moving more towards the Science of Reading viewpoint. The administration of the school has asked you and the instuctional specialists at the school to develop a professional development session about the science of reading for your staff members. However, there are a lot of veteran teachers who are "stuck in their ways" and are resistant to the upcoming change. As a coach, you realize that you need to get your teachers reflecting on their practices to help them have an "aha" moment that connects what they previously knew or thought about literacy instruction to this new shift in thinking. You help to develop a professional development session that has teachers working in groups to think about what they think they know, an exploration of various materials and resources about the science of reading, and then a collaborative session where you take your new learning to assess previous knowledge. This will allow your teachers to engage in transformational learning and improve their practices to be up-to-date in their learning about literacy instruction.
- Concrete experience: doing/having an experience- Reflective observation: reviewing/reflecting on the experience - Abstract conceptualization: concluding/learning from the experience - Active experimentation: planning or trying out what has been learned
- Give chances to learn about new perspectives. - Identify and question assumptions. - Provide opportunities to have critical and important discussions. - Gather different resources that provide differing perspectives about a topic.
A teacher attended the district’s “Formative Assessment Inservice Workshop”. A week after the workshop, the teacher approaches the instructional coach to help plan and implement a lesson using formative assessments in her classroom next week. She looks concerned.
Resources
Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory & Learning Styles by Dr. Serhat Kurt
Kolb's Learning Cycle (Classroom Practice) by Paul Main
Kolb's Learning Cycle Explained with Example (video) by EPM
The idea that learners who are getting new information are also evaluating their past ideas and understanding and are shifting their very worldview as they obtain new information through critical reflection (Western Governors University).
Learning by doing. Experiential learning focuses on the idea that the best ways to learn things is by actually having experiences. Those experiences then stick out in your mind and help you retain information and remember facts (Western Governors University).
Resources
Why Teachers Might Benefit from Transformational Coaching by Elena Aguilar
Want to Affect Real Change at Work? Try Transformative Learning Theory by Cassandra Naji
Transformational Learning (video) - Teaching Example
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Adult Learning Theories
Purpose: Explore Adult learning theories and how they are connected to coaching
What is it?
What is it?
Putting into Practice
Putting into Practice
Transformational Learning - Mezirow (1991, 2000)
Experiential Learning - Kolb (1984)
Theory to Application
Theory to Application
Kolb's Pedagogical Approach
Mezirow's 10 Phases
Resources
Resources
Connection to Coaching
Connetion to Coaching
Reflection - Don't forget
Literacy instruction is changing throughout the country, and your district is moving more towards the Science of Reading viewpoint. The administration of the school has asked you and the instuctional specialists at the school to develop a professional development session about the science of reading for your staff members. However, there are a lot of veteran teachers who are "stuck in their ways" and are resistant to the upcoming change. As a coach, you realize that you need to get your teachers reflecting on their practices to help them have an "aha" moment that connects what they previously knew or thought about literacy instruction to this new shift in thinking. You help to develop a professional development session that has teachers working in groups to think about what they think they know, an exploration of various materials and resources about the science of reading, and then a collaborative session where you take your new learning to assess previous knowledge. This will allow your teachers to engage in transformational learning and improve their practices to be up-to-date in their learning about literacy instruction.
- Concrete experience: doing/having an experience- Reflective observation: reviewing/reflecting on the experience - Abstract conceptualization: concluding/learning from the experience - Active experimentation: planning or trying out what has been learned
- Give chances to learn about new perspectives. - Identify and question assumptions. - Provide opportunities to have critical and important discussions. - Gather different resources that provide differing perspectives about a topic.
A teacher attended the district’s “Formative Assessment Inservice Workshop”. A week after the workshop, the teacher approaches the instructional coach to help plan and implement a lesson using formative assessments in her classroom next week. She looks concerned.
Resources
Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory & Learning Styles by Dr. Serhat Kurt
Kolb's Learning Cycle (Classroom Practice) by Paul Main
Kolb's Learning Cycle Explained with Example (video) by EPM
The idea that learners who are getting new information are also evaluating their past ideas and understanding and are shifting their very worldview as they obtain new information through critical reflection (Western Governors University).
Learning by doing. Experiential learning focuses on the idea that the best ways to learn things is by actually having experiences. Those experiences then stick out in your mind and help you retain information and remember facts (Western Governors University).
Resources
Why Teachers Might Benefit from Transformational Coaching by Elena Aguilar
Want to Affect Real Change at Work? Try Transformative Learning Theory by Cassandra Naji
Transformational Learning (video) - Teaching Example