It presents strategies on how to deal with adult learners for Alternative Learning System in the Philippines which will serve as an ideal guide for ALS facilitators.

1. Presenter:
VICENTE R. ANTOFINA, JR.
ALS Mobile Teacher III
Hernani District

2. Use a graphic organizer to describe an out of
school youth in your community whom u
personally know.
In five minutes, take turn with your seatmate
in sharing your personal output.

3. OSY/A
Behavior
Talents/
Skills
Age
Family
Background
Literacy
Level
Educational
attainment
Reasons for
dropping out
Physical
Condition
Present Work
Living
Condition
Status
As facilitator, how can you help
him/her?

4. 1. Did not attend formal schooling.
2. School dropouts.
3. Engage in early marriages.
4. Victims of child/force labor and other forms of abuses
including verbal and physical abuses.
5. Abandoned/orphaned persons.
6. Delinquent persons/misbehavior/illegal drug victims
7. Victims of war/calamities.
8. Frequent migration- transfer of residence
9. Persons with illnesses/disabilities
10. Poor academic achievement
11. Workers – household-based, agricultural, construction

5. Where can you
find them?
Constru
ction
Sites
Remote
Areas
Squatters/
Displaced
Areas
Farm
Vending
Areas
(market,
stores)
Streets
Entertainm
ent Areas
(Bars,
Videoke,
Pasugalan,
Plaza)
Orphana
ges
Parlors
They are just around you, ask your
neighbor

6. 1. Stress
2. Literacy and academic gaps
3. Frustration

7. 1. Know them.
2. Build supportive environment that respond to their
immediate needs.
3. Implement flexible scheduling.
4. Use effective, accessible, and age-appropriate materials.
5. Provide intensive literacy instruction using flexible
strategies
6. Teach them learning strategies that they can use in the
near future.
 Using the dictionary
 Using a calculator
 Locating a place in a map
 Google search using mobile internet
7. Use community resources to support the learners.

8.  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.

9. Tip 1
Encourage the members of your class to
interact.

10. Tip 2
 Always have a refreshment break.
Adults will be motivated to continue coming to
your classes is that they are enjoying them and
making friends. A refreshment break and
encouraging interaction helps the students to get
to know each other. No-one can concentrate fully
for 2 hours anyway. You may think a break is a
waste of valuable teaching time, I can assure you
that it is not.

11. Tip 3
Make the classes fun
Your students don't want to spend 2 hours
each week in your company if you are
straight faced, serious and boring. Sound
as if you enjoy your subject, then your
students will enjoy it too.

12. Tip 4
If at all possible, talk to your students on the
personally before the first class.
Potential students who haven't studied for years,
or have had a bad experience at school may be
apprehensive and undecided about attending.
Talking to them allows you to explain that the class
will not be like school, it will be relaxed and
friendly. Really nervous students will be appreciate
you taking time to talk to them. It will help
overcome their initial fear. They will come to the
first class feeling that they already know you.

13. Tip 5
Be relaxed and friendly and relaxed, allow
them time and space to settle, and allow
them to talk about their previous
experiences there.

14. Tip 6
Make time in each class to talk to every
student.
It is easy to allow your attention to be
engaged by the assertive students and
ignore the quiet ones. Don't. Even if a
student says they don't need help, take
time to sit with them, talk to them, get to
know them, monitor their progress and
encourage them.

15. Tip 7
Remember that there are students who
might learn more slowly.
This can be frustrating for the student -
especially if the student was a fast learner
in younger days. Remind them learning
more slowly is normal, assure them that
you don't mind if they learn more slowly
than younger members of the class and
encourage them to reflect on what they
have learnt.

16. Tip 8
Remember that your students have lives.
If they are late arriving at your class there
is probably a good reason. It isn't helpful to
be rude to them.

17. Tip 9
Don't be afraid to ask your students how they
feel the course is going.
If you have been friendly and got to know your
students they should feel they will feel they
can give you an honest answer. Ask them If
they aren't happy, ask them what they would
like you to change - and change it! Don't feel
embarrassed, or feel you have been criticized.
It is a huge chance to improve your teaching
and/or the content of your course. You will be
a better teacher and you will have happier
students.

18. ALS is not about teaching a
curriculum…
it is about teaching them by HEART…
When you do this…
At the end of the you will say
Thank You Lord for being a teacher.
Thank you Lord being part of the
ALS…

19. T H A N K Y O U!