Adult education teaching starts from the different needs of different objects, orients training, effectively serves production and work, and has strong pertinence. In addition, the main target of adult education is adults who have already joined the work or entered the society. They are more concerned about their work and life, so their purpose and motivation to improve their academic qualifications are very obvious, that is, to improve their professional knowledge or get something useful to them, so they think that what is useful to them will have greater learning motivation, which determines that the teaching of adult education should be timely.

Second, practicality and application

Because the knowledge of adult education is mostly oriented to practical work, technical knowledge or operational knowledge accounts for more in the teaching content. In the teaching process, we should guide students to do it themselves and cultivate their practical application ability.

Thirdly, autonomy and integration.

One of the main characteristics of adult education is the combination of self-study and face-to-face instruction, which should give full play to students' self-study ability, independent consciousness and initiative. Especially in the form of correspondence learning, there are only a few concentrated lectures every year, and the rest of the time is mainly self-study. Teachers mainly play the role of arousing students' enthusiasm and solving doubts and doubts in teaching.

Fourth, short-term quick results.

Adult education and teaching can be completed in a short time, so that adults can learn and master certain knowledge and skills after work or during breaks, without going through a long period like ordinary schools. At the same time, after adults engage in learning, accepting knowledge and forming skills, their benefits can be reflected in a short time and achieve the expected results. This is the so-called "short, flat and fast" characteristics of adult education and teaching. Of course, "short-term" and "quick-acting" mentioned here are relative, and the shorter the better, the better. It must be within an appropriate range, otherwise haste makes waste, and the effect and quality of adult education and teaching will be affected.