From Telling to Teaching: A Dialogue Approach to Adult Learning

From Telling to Teaching introduces educators of adults to a dynamic, motivational dialogue approach that breathes new life and energy into everyone involved. Readers learn how to set positive learning environments, activate prior learning, incorporate a variety of teaching approaches, engage learners in dialogue, and reinforce the learning. The volume includes a proven, step by step approach to curriculum design that has already been used by thousands of educators, volunteer trainers, and staff development specialists worldwide. Readers will also be introduced to the basic facilitation skills required to raise all learner voices and lift levels of learner engagement.

Dr. Joye Norris has been working with adult educators for more than a decade, helping them to shift from telling to teaching, from hope to evidence, from delivery to discovery.

After studying with Dr. Jane Vella,author of Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach, Joye began sharing her enthusiasm for a dialogue approach to education with thousands of educators across the country. In all cases, the organizations asking for Joye's help were dissatisfied with their current educational efforts which relied heavily on telling and handouts but lacked substantial learner engagement.

Joye has combined her doctorate in Counselor Education from NC State University with her love for adult education and created a refreshing and energizing outlook on learning. She has co-authored two books: Developing Literacy Programs for Homeless Adults and Maximizing Paraprofessional Potential, both published by Krieger.