Check frequently to ensure that adults have made appropriate connections and have learned the information

• Encourage learners to tell how they learn best and use this information to design future lessons. Provide frequent feedback that describes what was done well and how it might be improved.
• Provide practice, practice and more practice!
• Ask frequent questions to help adults stay involved and check for learners' understanding of the material that is being taught.

Enduring (ensure that adults have fully mastered critical information before moving on to additional content)

• Maximize success and enhance self-esteem by providing opportunities for the learners to be successful.
• Pre-test, instruct, test, reinstruct as needed, and review.
• Provide learners with helpful feedback and further instruction as needed, to promote mastery.³

The importance of thinking through what critical content needs to be presented, the instructional process, and how the information can be integrated are all important to effectively instruct any learner, but especially adults with learning disabilities. Most often their disabilities can negatively impact and weaken the following areas:

• Organizing content information
• Differentiating major ideas from supporting information
• Comparing and/or contrasting information
• Reading and understanding large amounts of content information
• Relating their background knowledge to new information
• Holding large quantities of information in memory⁴