Teaching adult learners has many potential advantages over teaching younger students. For one, your learners have much more life experience, and this experience can be leveraged as part of the knowledge that is shared among the participants in your class.

Also, leaving aside situations where workers are required to take mandatory training (e.g., to comply with industry regulations), adult learners typically choose to continue their education, and thus likely to value your teaching—and your time—far more than students who are required to be in your class.

However, while you may not need to put the same effort into engaging your class that a school teacher would, you still need to build a rapport with your learners and develop a teaching strategy that maximizes their learning outcomes. Understanding how adults parse and retain new knowledge is critical to creating a learning experience that achieves its goals.So, in this episode, we’ll take a look at what it takes to teach poems to adults effectively.