Article of the Month
April 2004
Teaching Others Using School Mental Health
Curriculum
This month’s Article of the Month corresponds with the 11th
module in the School Mental Health Training Series, Teaching Others Using
the School Mental Health Curriculum. The focus of this module was on
teaching adults instead of children. The World Wide Web has thousands of
websites dealing with adult education. Below are few items that are concise in
helping you understand more about teaching adults.
Principles
of Adult Learning by Stephen Lieb, is a three-page article that gives an overview of the basics
in adult learning.
infed an
independent, not-for-profit site exploring informal education and lifelong
learning, has a good article called The Meaning of
Adult Education. A Brief Guide and Bibliography. It has numerous links with helpful information in addition
to the basic information in the article.
Marie L. Conner has put together an extensive list of web
links on How
Adults Learn (Conner, M. L. "How Adults Learn." Ageless Learner, 1997-2003),
If you want to really delve into adult education, click here to
take an entire course through a joint effort of North Carolina State
University, Utah State University and Texas Tech University. You can also visit
the web site to look at the abundant information without taking the course.