Leaders as Teachers: The U.S. GAO’s Adjunct Faculty Program Expands Auditors’ Capacities
“Docendo discimus.” When we teach, we learn. Has your Supreme Audit Institute (SAI) considered developing a “Leaders-as-Teachers” program? Under a Leaders-as-Teachers program, experienced analysts and auditors step into the classroom to teach newer staff how to perform key audit tasks. Effective teaching by experienced auditors who have “been there and done that” helps staff to learn, remember, and, most importantly, apply the course material. Building on adult learning principles that adults learn best when they are interested and involved, instructors facilitate discussion of the material through thoughtful, probing questions and they teach using dynamic, on-point lectures, vivid language, illustrative examples, and storytelling with messages that stick. The result is curious, engaged learners who are excited to learn more about the topic.
