Adult Education Theories & Tools
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Greenstart, K. (2015, Sep). How to Facilitate Introverts and Extroverts in your Group or Class. Self-Employed Success. Retrieved from http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/facilitate-introverts-and-extroverts/ Knight, R. (2015, Nov 16). How to be Good at Managing both Introverts and Extroverts. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2015/11/how-to-be-good-at-managing-both-introverts-and-extroverts Owens, M. (n.d.). 4 Strategies You Need to Know for Working with Extroverts. Undercover Recruiter. Retrieved from https://theundercoverrecruiter.com/work-with-extroverts-strategies/ Extroverts are also often evaluated with stereotypes. "Introverts describe extroverts as aggressive, egotistical, unaware, rude and socially needy."(Caramela, 2017) A research project found that when working on a team project, introverts “evaluated extroverts more poorly than fellow introverted team members in almost every category” (Knight, 2015). An extravert “gains energy when she is out in the world, especially brainstorming with a group of people” and is “excited to share ideas and to process thoughts verbally in the group. Sometimes she gets her best ideas while talking through a problem with other people” (Greenstart, 2015). Extroverts tend to “tackle their assigned work promptly; they’re quick, sometimes rash decision makers. They’re comfortable with risk-taking and multitasking.” (Knight, 2015). I recorded a few ideas for supporting the extroverts within a class setting:
References
Caramela, S. (2017, Dec 12). Introverts vs. Extroverts: How to Get Along at Work. Business News Daily. Retrieved from https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/2320-introvert-extrovert-quiz.html Greenstart, K. (2015, Sep). How to Facilitate Introverts and Extroverts in your Group or Class. Self-Employed Success. Retrieved from http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/facilitate-introverts-and-extroverts/ Knight, R. (2015, Nov 16). How to be Good at Managing both Introverts and Extroverts. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2015/11/how-to-be-good-at-managing-both-introverts-and-extroverts Owens, M. (n.d.). 4 Strategies You Need to Know for Working with Extroverts. Undercover Recruiter. Retrieved from https://theundercoverrecruiter.com/work-with-extroverts-strategies/ TED. (2012, Mar 2). The power of introverts | Susan Cain. [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0KYU2j0TM4&feature=youtu.be As a facilitator, I would like to know ways to support the range of participants I will come across, so that those who are quiet are just as supported as those who are louder and those who need reflection time have the same amount of space and priority as those who need to discuss things out loud. Introverts are often pegged as shy and quiet. Furthermore, extroverts see introverts as “unsocial, inadequate, shy, secretive and aloof noncontributors," (Caramela, 2017). My further investigation found that introverts “gain energy by being alone and expends energy when in a group setting” and need “quiet time alone to process the outcome of the group meetings” (Greenstart, 2015). Introverts “work more deliberately and slowly. They prefer to concentrate on a single task at a given time” (Knight, 2015). I recorded a few ideas for supporting the introverts within a class setting:
References
Caramela, S. (2017, Dec 12). Introverts vs. Extroverts: How to Get Along at Work. Business News Daily. Retrieved from https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/2320-introvert-extrovert-quiz.html Greenstart, K. (2015, Sep). How to Facilitate Introverts and Extroverts in your Group or Class. Self-Employed Success. Retrieved from http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/facilitate-introverts-and-extroverts/ Knight, R. (2015, Nov 16). How to be Good at Managing both Introverts and Extroverts. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2015/11/how-to-be-good-at-managing-both-introverts-and-extroverts Owens, M. (n.d.). 4 Strategies You Need to Know for Working with Extroverts. Undercover Recruiter. Retrieved from https://theundercoverrecruiter.com/work-with-extroverts-strategies/ TED. (2012, Mar 2). The power of introverts | Susan Cain. [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0KYU2j0TM4&feature=youtu.be A great instructional strategy is to use storytelling as a motivational tool. A peer in PIDP has created an infographic to describe this method She starts brilliantly with a story (the Starfish story) and then goes on to describe what the method is, some interesting facts, and tips:
Learners (as humans) attach emotion to everything, which is part of why storytelling is so powerful as a tool to enhance learning. Stories: "communicate values, not just skills, decreases teaching time, builds community, ignites five more regions of the brain than mere fact giving, helps people make sense of their world, shapes perceptions via the subconscious mind, reframes frustration, paradox, and suffering, changes behavior, and provides a dependable way for people to remember, retrieve, and retell a meaningful message." Interesting tidbit: "Our brain learns to ignore certain overused words and phrases that used to make stories awesome. Scientists, in the midst of researching the topic of storytelling have also discovered, that certain words and phrases have lost all storytelling power:
"Some scientists have contended that figures of speech like "a rough day" are so familiar that they are treated simply as words and no more." This means, that the frontal cortex—the area of your brain responsible to experience emotions—can't be activated with these phrases. It's something that might be worth remembering when crafting your next story." "In Chapter 7 of Cain's book, Quiet, she eludes to the strange little Canadian professor, who lectured at Harvard who was seen by his students as extremely extraverted but, in fact, was known to hide from them in the men's room, after lectures" Here is his Tedx talk: Within this humorous video, Dr. Little discusses:
"Extroverts are chronically under arousal necessary to carry out their tasks and projects effectively and consequently they need to extrovert themselves." "Introverts are over arousal level and need to reduce their level." He shares how "free traits are when you invoke a social script to advance a core project in your life." His example is his passion for professing, which he can only do to a certain extent before reverting back to his introverted ways. We have limits, he says, to our capacity of acting out of capacity. I am interested in further exploring and hearing thoughts about:
Side tidbit: as a self-proclaimed extrovert, I listened to the video at double-speed.
This beautiful TED talk discusses the value and importance of introverts and introversion: "Creativity and leadership need introverts to do what they do best" "Go to the wilderness have own revelations... We could all stand to unplug and get inside own heads more often" The main topic was the difference between introversion and extroversion and how to support introverts in an extrovert-focused world. Several questions arose for me:
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