Compare the differences between child/adolescent and adult learning models (pedagogy and andragogy).

Once the training analysis is completed, the organization and employee development human resources specialist uses adult learning theories to turn the training needs into training materials, courses, and instructional design.

Address the following elements of understanding the adult learning model:

  1. Explain the theories of adult learning principles.
  2. Compare the differences between child/adolescent and adult learning models (pedagogy and andragogy).
  3. Discuss the concept of learning styles, personalities, and how these concepts are combined with adult learning in organizational training and development programs.
  4. Explore the options that organizations have in applying adult learning to a comprehensive training and development program.

Explain the theories of adult learning principles.

Once the training analysis is completed, the organization and employee development human resources specialist uses adult learning theories to turn the training needs into training materials, courses, and instructional design.

Address the following elements of understanding the adult learning model:

  1. Explain the theories of adult learning principles.
  2. Compare the differences between child/adolescent and adult learning models (pedagogy and andragogy).
  3. Discuss the concept of learning styles, personalities, and how these concepts are combined with adult learning in organizational training and development programs.
  4. Explore the options that organizations have in applying adult learning to a comprehensive training and development program.

Do you agree with Holt’s advice? Why or why not?

In the article Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do), author, publisher, and industry expert Pat Holt writes that:

“Dialogue writing is different than prose writing. ‘Snapped, sighed, barked, spat’ . . . get in the way of the reader’s ability to absorb what people are saying in conversation. The only reason to put he said/she said in at all is to quickly remind the reader who’s talking, and then the author steps out. [The] emotional state . . . will be conveyed in what is said rather than an adverb showing how it’s said . . . Use those stronger verbs but never ever in dialogue.”

Many beginning writers try to vary their dialogue tags to liven their prose, but most literary agents and publishers advise using only the dialogue tags “said” and “asked” with very few exceptions.

In your initial post:

  • Define in your own words what makes dialogue “authentic” and why and give an example of “good dialogue” from one of the two books you have read this term to support your answer.
  • Write your opinion on using dialogue tags.
  • Do you agree with Holt’s advice? Why or why not?

Why did the Articles of Confederation fail, and how was the Constitution different?

The Constitution is not the U.S.’s first form of government. Why did the Articles of Confederation fail, and how was the Constitution different? What major disagreements and compromises molded the final content of the Constitution?

interpret excerpts from Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense and its influence on the desire for Colonial independence from Britain (see the link below).  A lot of colonists were hesitant about independence.  What were Paine’s main arguments, and do you think they were convincing?

http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/the-american-revolution/thomas-paine-calls-for-american-independence-1776/