When teaching...

Technology use is greatly useful, it provides catching sources to motivate sts and clarify your activities or explanations. Young adults feel brightly motivated and engaged, but with older adults can be tricky, they tend to feel intimidated but you can set a safe environment where thay feel free to explore new technological sources you bring to class.

Teaching Adults implies more meaningful tasks, closer to their personal and work experiences; our activities must be practical and have a clear purpose; they want something more related to their personal and labor growth.

Sometimes, teachers tend to manage classrooms trying to keep students "busy" to avoid misbehavior. But that’s not the idea of teaching. Even more if you are working with adults, they need to see a clear purpose in everything they do, and they don’t want to waste time; they want to see results ASAP. That’s why we need to implement a well-structured and meaningful plan to work on different activities which must be related to practical and real situations, and link those to personal experiences. In that way we can also create significant outcome  centered practices and we will be helping our students in their progress.

Being a teacher is indeed, a long life learning process; teachers need to be reflective and keep on learning new things every day; new methodologies, strategies, new approaches, and be part of investigations. Our world is always changing and we need to take actions not to get stuck in the same old copies, songs, layouts and practices. We need to work on our student’s needs when planning and reflecting on our job.