Helping Adults Persist

Step 3: Focus on an aspect of your practice

1. In Step 2 you were asked to reflect on ways in which you have helped support persistence. Here are some suggestions for improving learner persistence from other practitioners. Review Strategies and Resources for Addressing Learner Persistence and see if you can find ones you have used. Take note of which of the six major strategies they fall under.
• What strategies and resources might you add?
• Which strategies might you like to try?
2. Explore the four supports in more depth. Select the supports that you would like to investigate first.

• Supports and Barriers to Persistence
• Goals and Self-efficacy in Persistence