Adult learners are different from young-just out of high school students. Some adult learners are intimitaded and I think it is the instructor's responsibility to help the adult learner to feel comfortable in class and to get them involved so that the anxiety and intimitation will subside.

Both the instructors and the students have a stake for ADL to be successful. The instructor has to be there to answer questions, guide the students if they get off track, and to motivate the studens; however, the students must be willing to complete the work.

I agree with you. The Department of Education is requiring a lot of documentation for each student which is good, yet, it is time consuming when we are teaching around 100 students each day.

I have been misinformed on what constitutes an educational record. I have learned a lot so far.

Since I teach mainly at night it is very difficult to plan and execute many field trips, therefore, I use guest speakers in the business world to come to class to give insight as to what to expect in the real business world. I try to have about three speakers during a quarter maybe more from insurance, banking, manufacturing, mail-order, legal, law-enforcement, retailing, distribution, sales, and customer service. We also set up an activity where we sell food items and the students must please their cliental. This really has been fun because we have several cliental who are asked to… >>>