The authors offer practical advice to novice and experienced administrators on the day-to-day duties and responsibilities of organizing and administering successful programs in adult, community, and continuing education settings. Administering Successful Programs for Adults is designed to assist administrators in understanding various approaches to the administrative process, assessing clientele needs and interests, securing financing and developing budgets, selecting paid and voluntary staff, creating effective marketing and public relations strategies, evaluating learning, instructors, and programs, understanding legal and ethical administrative issues, and finally mapping out a professional development plan for remaining effective. Throughout this book, many practical and useful strategies, approaches, forms, and tips to assist the administrator to be more effective are provided. This book will prove to be a valuable resource for administrators who work in community-based adult, community, and continuing education organizations, deans and directors of continuing higher education, directors of adult and community school programs, trainers in business and industry, and educational consultants.

Administering Successful Programs for Adults: Promoting Excellence in Adult, Community, and Continuing Education (Professional Practices in Adult Education and Human Resource Development Series)

Education & Teaching

Galbraith, Michael W.

Sisco, Burton R.

Guglielmino, Lucy Madsen

Higher & Continuing Education

Krieger Pub. Co

Most any profession and associated practice is marked by certain controversies or vexing issues. This is true not only of well-established professions such as medicine but also of developing professions such as adult and continuing education. Today, as never before, adult and continuing educators are dealing with a panoply of issues that have an impact on both the knowledge base and professional practice of the discipline. This volume of New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education presents a variety of perspectives on some of the more Anduring controversies of our times so as to encourage improved practice in adult and continuing education. This is the 54th issue of New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education. For more information on this series, please see the Journals and Periodicals page.

Confronting Controversies in Challenging Times: A Call for Action (J-B ACE Single Issue Adult & Continuing Education)

Jossey-Bass

The third edition of Adult Learning Methods, with revisions, updates, and six new chapters, provides the educator of adults with ways to understand and facilitate adult learning. It is a clearly written guide to understanding the complex aspects associated with techniques and methods of the teaching and learning encounter. The book is comprised of two parts. Part One,Understanding and Facilitating Adult Learning, contains 8 chapters that examine such topics as characteristics of a good teacher, understanding adults as learners, philosophical and teaching style orientations, designing instruction, motivation strategies, and ethical reasoning. Part Two, Methods and Techniques, contains 14 chapters that describe in detail an array of methods and techniques to use in the classroom. The topics include selecting methods and techniques, case story, discussion, lecture, interactive television, distance learning methods, learning contracts, course portfolio, critical thinking techniques, demonstration, simulation, case study, forum, panel, symposium, mentoring, and learning communities in cyberspace. Adult Learning Methods is designed for the practitioner and is written from a practical how-to perspective. Its premise is that by acquiring a greater understanding of the process of helping adults learn and the methods that can enhance this process, teachers and adult learners can increase their chances of sharing a positive, meaningful, and developing educational experience.

Adult Learning Methods: A Guide for Effective Instruction

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