Learning Partnerships
A publication containing samples of work created by learning partners over the course of a semester.
What is Trellis?
The process of grown people gaining knowledge, skills, and competence.
What is adult learning?
Introduction, aims/objectives, input, checking for understanding, practice, closure
What are some of the design elements of Madeline Hunter’s lesson plan model?
A practice of purposefully paying attention, and conveying interest to another, often nonverbally
What is active listening?
Comfort, discomfort and panic/alarm
What are the zones of learning?
A participatory adult education program with one-on-one mutual learning partnerships of Cornell students and Cornell employees.
What is the Community Learning and Service Partnership?
Acting in response to external causes vs acting in response to one’s internal reasons.
What is extrinsic vs intrinsic motivation?
First articulating the desired goals and outcomes a design is intended to accomplish before thinking of actions or activities.
What is backwards planning?
Having a well-designed plan and being able to hold it loosely as circumstances change
What is nimble facilitation?
The process of focusing your attention in the present. It involves a moment-by-moment awareness of sensations, thoughts, and feelings
What is mindfulness?
A communication conveying your understanding and advice written to assist an unknown future reader and a particular adult learner.
What is a Dear Colleague letter?
Exploring/identifying one’s learning needs or interests, framing goals, making & pursuing a plan, and evaluating ones’ own learning outcomes
What is self-directed learning?
People, purpose, place and process
What is Suthern’s design & planning framework? Or what are the elements of Suthern’s framework?
Also known as Teacher-centered vs Learner-centered education
What is content-centered vs process-centered education?
A means of staying fresh and dealing with procrastination involving time intervals of work or study and taking breaks.
What is the Pomodoro technique?
Regular written reflection and documentation regarding intended goals, lesson plan results and ideas on next steps, among others.
What is a debrief?
Person often recognized as the Father of Andragogy
Who is Malcolm Knowles?
A means of prompting participants to recall and activate their own experience and knowledge relevant to subject at hand.
What is a hook?
This role includes focusing on the group as a whole and paying attention to who is acting or speaking, what is not being said, and keeping the group bound for the established goal, as well as knowing oneself.
What is a facilitator?
Breaking down complex concepts into smaller, manageable parts
What is chunking?
We think of CLASP as a collaborative quartet comprised of 1) University HR, 2) campus service units, 3) students and the academy and a fourth partner.
What is the UAW Local 2300?
A heuristic instrument for clarifying the level to which one’s configuration of beliefs, understandings and views align to one or more particular instructive outlooks
What is Lorraine Zinn’s Philosophy of Adult Education Inventory (PAEI)
Enduring understandings/big ideas; good to know and be able to do; worth being familiar with.
What is the Understanding by Design “egg” model of Wiggins and McTighe?
Engaging participants in collaboratively creating, discovering, and applying insights and knowledge.
What is facilitative teaching?
Growing accustomed to a method or sensory stimulus to the point of no longer noticing it or responding thoughtfully to it.
What is habituation?