The six reasons for teaching English are: To improve morality, to prepare good workers, to create an elite, to produce good citizens, to foster personal growth, and to offset inequity.
The first reason for teaching English is to improve morality. The connection to the term literacy is piety or devotion. If we create a truly moral learner, we have done our service to mankind. Moral learners create true champions of the best kind.
Student financial aid offices deal in big numbers. Not just financial numbers, but massive files of FAFSA data coming into and out of large databases, hundreds, sometimes thousands of incoming and outgoing documents including student requests, requests for further information and financial aid award letters. Most college financial aid offices virtually hum with efficiency. With this in mind, it is also the role of the financial aid office staff to treat you, the consumer, with individual care and respect. Sometimes, in the hectic pace and hyper efficiency, stopping to help one student with a specific problem is like trying to stop a train to let a bunny cross the tracks. It’s a good idea and the right thing to do, but often more difficult to achieve than it should be. Train analogy aside, good financial aid offices have specially trained staff ready to help students and parents with special requests, one-on-one counseling, budgeting and financial literacy programs. In an era where most of the financial aid process is online and impersonal, meeting with a financial aid counselor or specialist can be a refreshing and informative experience for both the student and the parent.
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The term adult learner can be applied to anyone from 18 to 108. Usually, however, the term is used to mean adults who have not studied for since leaving school or college.
When teaching adults, remember that they don’t have to come to your classes. They will attend if they find the classes fun and interesting and they feel they are learning something.
My top tips are aimed at teachers working in a classic “Evening Class” situation. Usually lessons once a week with each lesson lasting for about 2 hours.