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Adult Basic Education Instructor Kate Nonesuch’s mission is to share “everything she knows” before she retires. After reviewing her “Working in Adult Literacy” blog, I truly hope she never retires from working on her blog! Ms. Nonesuch’s thought-provoking essays, educational videos, links to other resources, and words of wisdom are definitely worth preserving and passing on to other teachers.
In her Building Strong Relationships with Learners blog, Ms. Nonesuch gives teachers five strategies for building strong relationships with their adult students:
Listen, Really Listen
Yes Means Yes
Make Your Teaching Transparent
Say How You Feel
Refuse to Give Advice
Note: The article from which her blogs derived is at right. To open this article, click on the publication’s icon.
To learn more about this amazing woman, please go to: http://katenonesuch.com/about-kate-nonesuch/
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I love this article. Just as a teacher is supposed to do with kids they must do with adults and that is built trus. With trust and a good curriculum you can teach anyone anything making you a succesful teacher.
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Thanks contributing your thoughts on this topic, Kevin! I completely agree with you! Part of trust, for me at least, is forming an emotional connection with your student in a way that resonates with her or him.
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Thanks for linking to my blog, and for your kind words. I think that teachers have a wealth of information and many strategies and skills learned from experience. These are often lost when the teacher leaves the classroom, either to “retire” as I did, or to move on to administration or some other field. It is only by sharing, teacher to teacher, that this wisdom, gained from experience and reflection, can be saved.
Writing a blog, or writing comments on a blog, help share the wealth.
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Thank YOU, Kate, for sharing your reason for blogging. We’re lucky we live in an age where we can reach out to so many people and share useful information with each other instead of reinventing the wheel over and over again. Thank you, again, for taking the lead on preserving what you’ve learned through years of experience and reflection on what worked and, I assume, didn’t work so we have the best of the your “teaching moments.” I look forward to applying what I learn from your blogs and following in your footsteps by sharing my epiphanies and “best practices” insights or discoveries with others. I invite everyone reading this to do the same by commenting on an existing blog or creating your own–and by sharing your favorite teacher education blogs with other teachers.
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