Animal Training Research Paper

How do you successfully train adults? This is a question that is asked by trainers all the time and will be discussed throughout this paper. Some might say that you cannot teach an old dog new tricks, but this has been proven to be an incorrect statement time and time again. First who would society consider to be an adult? Trainings in the workplace must be designed with what the employee needs to learn in relation to desired job behaviors. When training adults objectives are important. They describe the change that is expected from the learner once the training has commenced. The structure of the training is next. The training must be structured with the adult learner in mind. Adults know what they want to learn and why they want to learn …show more content…
Adults have many professional and person life experiences, come from different varied social, cultural, racial, and economic and gender backgrounds. These factors sometimes hinder the ability to effectively get through to them if you are not fully prepared. For example, if you are training an adult on new accounting methods but they have been an accountant for 20 years; their personal knowledge of accounting may get in the way of them learning new methods. This is especially true when the trainer is young(er). The older adult may think what can this youngster possibly teach me that I do not already know. This is a concern that has been growing amongst trainers and learners today (Goddu 2012). In order to address the concerns of the learner the trainer must have knowledge of how adults learn and the major learning theories are, how can the trainer use the past experiences of the adult learner to make learning more meaningful and what best methods employed by the trainer can motivate an adult learner (Goddu 2012). More and more adults are seeking training on and off the job in recent years. Due to this it is becoming imperative to have trainer that are competent and able to train adult

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