Adult Education and Literacy

The Right Question Strategy has been helpful to both adult educators and adult learners.

 

For years adult educators have been asked to compensate for all that students in their classes had not learned previously in their K-12 education. As a result of working with RQI, many adult educators have discovered that they do not have to take everything on their shoulders alone. 

 

Use of the RQ Strategy has enabled adult learners to:

  • Improve their critical thinking and literacy skills
  • Prepare for their GED and ESOL exams
  • Acquire self-advocacy and strategic thinking skills they can use to deal with the challenges they face every day

 

Adult learners have found that they are indeed capable of learning to think and act on their own behalf. After years of experiencing failure in schools, facing great challenges in their own lives, problems confronting their families, and, in the face of it all, often feeling defeated and incapable of taking action, they have discovered that they have the capacity to become better learners and can strategize and tackle the many challenges they face in their lives outside the classroom.

 

Examples

  • RQI formed a partnership with the state adult education systems in Northern New England, funded by Jane's Trust. Adult educators began to teach their students how to become more independent, more effective learners, better advocates, and better problem solvers. 
  • Adult educators in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont continue to teach RQI methods to adult learners in their GED, adult literacy, job training and workforce preparation programs.

 

Videos

Adult educators discuss the impact of RQI on their students in:  “Why Didn’t We Learn This in High School?”

  

Voices From the Field

We will be doing a disservice to our students if we don’t teach them how to ask questions.

Adult educator, Vermont

If you want to encourage your students to be self-directed learners and to take charge of their own learning, this is a process to encourage that. 

Adult educator, Maine

I can use it in many parts of my life to help me think and come up with better questions. 

Adult learner, Maine