I like the concept of adults self-directing their learning. I think the challenge would be how to pull that off within the guidelines of what is required to be learned. In my situation, there are established things all students must learn or at least be exposed to. How do I allow some autonomy within those guidelines?

When going through this, I found the areas I tend to lean towards heavily but also found some that I could relate to part of, but nt the whole.

I have found that Roger's theory that adult learners need to immediately apply what they're leaning and also understand why they need to learn certain things to be absolutely true. I've experienced this in my on-the-job and periodic training. If I'm not told the "why" I will probably tune it out. If I don't see how I can use it in my job, I will likely tune it out.

All three of the theories appear to have some validity, but I was especially drawn to Havinhurst's. I like that it has ranges of time that a person might actually use as a guide to measure progress. 

I have found that it's absolutely true that if my education or training is not immediately applicable to my job, I will likely tune it out.  I need to find ways to make my classes relevant to my adult learners; maybe connecting  goal of some sort to what they are learning.

I learned that Emotional Intelligence should be regarded as a hard skill that helps instructors leverage their knowledge and expertise more effectively.

It seems most of the problem-solving steps or procedures I've been exposed to over the years tended to be very methodical and failed to address the creative or reflective aspects of it. It seems much can be gained by just observing.

I think in this day and age and in our current environment, it would be best for all of us, even students, to ask questions before making decisions. We should be extremely skeptical when someone tries to tell us how to live, what to do, what to buy, what to believe, etc. Every person involved has an agenda that may be completely opposite to ours. The best recent example was the response to the C19 pandemic. Different parties had different agendas from making billions of dollars to controlling how others lived. In other words, health was not the sole consideration. 

While we all need time to gather info and make decisions, there has to be a limit to that. This can sometimes be difficult and can become "analysis paralysis." We fail to decide because we feel like we haven't gained all the info we need to make the decision and need more time. The fact is we will never have "all the info." If we did, we would be gods. I liked the advertisement examples and have often fallen for those things. There arer times when I catch something that can't possibly be true, but often times I fall, for… >>>