Beware of Returning Adult Student Experiences

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Now, while talking about experience, I would like to talk about the other end of the double-edged sword about experience with returning students. You need to be aware of experience with returning students. And to me, this tends to be a bit more of a problem than fear and insecurity about what they don't know, is confidence in what they do know. Returning students, especially if they've been out in the work world, or even if they haven't, tend to come into the classroom with much more solidified values, belief systems, ideas, concepts, than someone who's right out of high school. And, this can be a difficult student to teach, because they know, and they know that they know. So, it's very important that you as the instructor encourages them, first of all, by telling them of course, how much they know and how great it is that they know all of the things that they know. But, then by talking about and stressing about how important it is for them to set that aside, and to be open to new possibilities, to be open to learning new ideas and concepts, and how that could benefit and improve what it is that they already know. Never discredit what they know, but help them and teach them to enhance what they already know.

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