3: Six Ways Teaching Adults is Different than Teaching Kids
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
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🗓️ 4 September 2011
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
A brief overview of how teaching fits into coaching. We’re going to examine a few lessons from The Adult Learner* by Malcolm Knowles.
Pedagogy vs. Andragogy (art of teaching kids vs. self concept of being responsible for ourselves) (Greek: child-leading, man-leading). You can’t teach adults the way you teach kids.
Why talk about kids? As coaches, there’s the tendency to fall back on what we’ve seen all our lives and what we remember from school – unfortunately, those same skills don’t work with adults.
6 assumptions about andragogy:
- The Need to Know (adults need to know why something is important before learning it)
- The leaner’s self concept (they want to be responsible for the progression of their own lives).
- The role of learner’s experiences (adults have a lot more of them)
- Readiness to learn (adults need timing that corresponds with developmental tasks)
- Orientation to learning (adults will learn to support what they think will help them in real-life tasks)
- Motivation (adults want job satisfaction, self-esteem, quality of life)
Book recommendation: Drive* by Daniel Pink
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone you're listening to coaching skills for leaders. This is episode number three recorded on September 3rd 2011 Innovate learning, maximizing human potential. |
| 0:13.4 | Welcome to Coaching Skills for Leaders. My name is Dave Stahovia. This is the show for leaders |
| 0:24.9 | who want to develop their coaching skills so they can influence the success of others, |
| 0:29.5 | their organizations, and themselves. Whether you're a season leader or you're leading people for the first time, |
| 0:35.1 | improving your coaching skills will drive your success and most importantly the success of others. |
| 0:40.8 | Today's topic, why teaching adults is different than teaching kids. |
| 0:45.8 | Well, welcome to the third episode. It is Labor Day weekend here in the United States |
| 0:50.9 | and although the official end to summer is a few weeks away, this weekend |
| 0:56.1 | always feels like the end of summer to many of us since kids are getting back to school, colleges |
| 1:02.0 | and universities are back in session, and it's really a natural time to be thinking about learning and improving oneself. |
| 1:10.0 | And plus in addition, when we think about corporate America and business, |
| 1:14.7 | summer vacation is over for many people here in the in North America |
| 1:20.1 | and it's a time that many organizations are working to be as productive as possible before the holiday season begins just a few months away. |
| 1:30.0 | And I know it seems like a ways away now, but you know, |
| 1:33.4 | Thanksgiving is just, you know what, |
| 1:35.6 | nine or ten weeks away at this point. |
| 1:38.1 | So it's a time for leaders to coach. It's a time for people to learn. Whether you're in a |
| 1:45.6 | university system, whether you're in a nonprofit organization, or whether you're in |
| 1:50.8 | a business, it's essential that we utilize this time of the year to be as effective as possible. |
| 1:56.5 | And so today, we're going to take a look at how teaching adults is different than teaching kids. And what are we and what are some of the assumptions |
| 2:05.0 | that we make about how to teach and coach people that we may have learned a long time ago |
| 2:10.4 | but are not the correct assumptions when we are leading and coaching people and particularly when we're leading and coaching adults. |
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