The Center for Literacy has observed that learning is most successful when it is:

• Collaborative:  Learners share in the responsibility for their own learning
   
• Learner-centered:  Adult Learners want to have control over deciding what they learn, how they learn it, and when they have learned enough
   
• Hands-on:  Learning by doing is a natural way to learn, with actual experience doing reading, writing, and numeracy.
   
• Repeated:  learning should include enough practice as part of the learners’ work and leisure for new skills to be remembered.  “Use it or lose it.”

**Adapted from:  Pomerance, Anita H., ed. Adult Literacy Handbook for Students and Tutors. 7th ed. Philadelphia: Center for Literacy, Inc., 2006.