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Resources for Designing Adult Learning

The strategies listed below are a few of our facilitators’ favorites, which they’ve collected over time and compiled from various sources. Designed to support engaging and effective professional learning, these practical ideas can be easily applied to enhance collaboration, strengthen facilitation, and create meaningful learning experiences for adult learners.

Inclusion and Community Building Activities

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Strategies for how to build community and a sense of belonging for all participants.

Engaging Processes for Adult Learners

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Strategies for how to engage all learners in the content. 

Energizers for Adult Learners

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Strategies to integrate physical activity into your session(s) supporting brain-based educational theories for effective learning for adults and students.

Reflection Processes for Adult Learners

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Strategies for how to gain insight and process how to move forward with new knowledge.

Grouping Ideas for Adult Learners

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Strategies for how to stimulate learning by working in partners or small groups to articulate ideas and understandings and to uncover incomplete ideas to drive inquiry.  
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