Teaching for adults is the practice to teach and inform of the adults. This is often done in the place of work, or course of ' prolongation ' or ' continuing education ' at the secondary schools, or with a university or university. Practice indicated also often under the name of the ' formation and the development '. It also indicated under the name of the andragogy (to distinguish it from the pedagogy). To inform of the adults differs to inform of the children from several manners.

One of the most significant differences is that the adults accumulated the knowledge and the experience which can the value added to an experiment of study or to obstruct it. Another significant difference is that the adults frequently must apply their knowledge of a certain fashion practises in order to learn effectively; there must are a goal and a reasonable hope that new knowledge will further help them this goal. An example, commun run in the Nineties, was the proliferation of the training courses of computer in which the adults (not of the children or teenagers), more who were office workers, could be registered. These courses would teach the basic use of the operating software or the specific application software.

Since the abstractions governing the interactions of the user with a PC were so new, much of people who had worked white work of collar during ten years or thereafter took such training courses, with their own whim (to gain qualifications of computer and to thus gain higher wages) or with the behest their directors. In the United States, a more general example is that of readjusted college which returns to the school in the complete conditions of general education. The majority of the positions ascending-mobiles at the very least require a diploma or an equivalent of college. A working adult is not very likely to have freedom to simply stop their work and with going "again to the school" on a full-time basis. The universities of the Community and the schools of correspondence offer usually classes of evening or weekend for this reason. To the United States, the equivalent of the diploma of college gained by an adult by these programs must pass the test of the development of general education (GED).