Monique Castillo

Many adult learners are mainly interested in pursuing the goal of advancing professionally. If they do not view a curriculum as having a practical application in their lives, they may be resistant to investing time or effort in it.

Instructors need to work on earning respect and giving it to their students. Once respect is earned then rapport can be established. Rapport provides a foundation upon which learning and personal growth can be built. Respect and rapport need to be established between and among students as well.
 

With students having either cell phones, ipads or laptops with them at all times, and educational environments having wireless connections to the Internet, instructors are able to access information and connect students with each other in ways that were not possible a few years ago. 

It is important to understand the different generations of learning.

Every generation has a specific learning style that will be the way they learned as a child into adulthood. 

Students with learning disabilities need more time, they are able to succeed with the right support.

Make sure that you are interacting with students whose first language is not English. 

Get up and move around. You cannot monitor your students from behind a desk or lectern. Students often assume that instructors have vision limited to the first two or three rows of students. 

Make eye contact with the students

Float around the room

Talk slowly and take pauses if students are taking notes

True/False questions increase the chance that random guessing will yield the correct answer. Unless they are written very clearly, true/false questions can seem ambiguous and confusing.