Questions to focus on: Adult Learning

These questions can be used at different levels. You can take 30 seconds to think about one or two. You can discuss them in a team or group of like-minded Christians. Or they can be used in a college class, including assignments and research projects, and answered in writing at any depth. They may be freely reproduced for this purpose. Please email us additional questions that could be added to this page.
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  1. Why do people like to feel in control?
  2. Why does having a specific area of responsibility lead to job satisfaction?
  3. Give examples of evangelistic or discipleship teaching which offer immediate 'transferability' to life situations.
  4. How many sermons and lectures would be vastly more effective if they were broken into shorter segments, with use of adult learning techniques?
  5. Try some role-play sessions. (I remain amazed at the effectiveness of a session for mission workers, where the role-play was trying to get through customs into a hostile country. The feeling of rejection at not being allowed in, even in what was really just a fun session, remains with me.)
  6. Why are people more likely to 'own' a truth they have arrived at by themselves?
  7. How does the 'para-message' given by the teacher compare with mentoring relationships described in the Bible.
  8. How can these principles be applied to effective evangelism?
  9. How could group Bible studies and discipleship be enhanced by these methods?