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Eddie Feliciano

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This research is being submitted on October 27, 2013, for Eddie Feliciano B250/LBS2030 Training and Development

To: The Vice President (Cindy Kramer)

From: Eddie Feliciano

Date: 10/27/2013

Re: Training Adult Learners

Educators have determined that most adults, adolescents, and children learn best by experiencing a blend of activities that promote the three learning domains: cognitive, affective, and behavioral. Adult learning is so much important for the company because of many reasons. Adults are motivated to put time and energy into learning if they know the benefits of learning and the costs of not learning. They have a self-concept of being in charge of their own lives and being responsible for their own decisions, and a need to be seen and treated as being capable of taking responsibility. Their experience is a resource for themselves and for other learners, and gives richer meaning to new ideas and skills. Adults learn when they to choose to learn and commit to learn. The desire to learn usually coincides with the transition from one developmental stage to another and is related to developmental tasks, such as career planning, acquiring job competencies, and improving job performance.

We have mainly three learning styles: visual, auditory and kinesthetic. So it is essential to know the learning styles of each individual learners because it helps to make him or her learn so effectively and rapidly.

Visual learners need to see an instructor’s facial expressions and body language to fully understand the content of a lesson. They tend to sit at the front of the classroom to avoid visual distractions. They tend to think in pictures and learn best from visual displays.

Auditory learners learn best through lectures, discussions, and brainstorming. They interpret the underlying meaning of speech by listening to voice tone, pitch, and speed and other speech nuances. Written information has little meaning to them until they hear it.

Kinesthetic learners learn best through a hands-on approach and actively exploring the physical world around them. They have difficulty sitting still for long periods of time, and easily become distracted by their need for activity and exploration.

Adult learns when he needs it but in case of child or young have the curiosity and much learning interest. Adults learning style might be different from the young because of their experience. The individual learning needs can be handled by know the learning styles of each separately.

The training will seek to address adult trainee characteristics by using the latest techniques of training abilities like ISD model and Kolb’s learning styles. The awareness of the terms like Trainability, Motivation, Perception of the work environment and Personality and attitudes are so much important for effective training program and it helps to develop skills within the trainee.

It is important to plan to meet each learner's individual learning style needs in the design of the program by the Kolb’s model. The Kolb’s model comprises four stages—Diverging, Assimilating, Converging, Accommodating. The analysis design, development, implementation, and evaluation and is a systems approach to instructional design in that it views human organizations and activities as systems in which inputs, outputs, processes and feedback and control elements are the salient features.