Goals for Teaching and The Adult Learner

I have been teaching adults in a variety of subjects ever since I was a Boy Scout in South Carolina. I have learned a great deal about teaching adults, how they learn what problems they have studying and learning and how to help them overcome these problems and become successful learners.

I would like this web site to be a central resource for anyone who teaches adults in sunday school classes, makes presentatins to clubs or other groups, coaches sports teams, teach in schools, colleges or univesities and for those adults who are looking for resources to learn which would include distance learning, learning at the worksite, books, DVDs, Videos, local classses and friendship groups.

I became interested in adult learning because my parents had their schooling stopped before finishing high school. However they both read passionately and my father took every course the Navy offered as a civilian employee and eventually attained a management position in the Civil Service. I wonder what he might have accompliched if he had had the resources for adult education that we have today.