Make your teaching and their learning fun, fast-paced and functional. This toolkit of 500 tips and techniques is designed for trainers at all levels of experience who enjoy experimenting, discovering and evolving.
500 Creative Classroom Techniques for Teachers and Trainers covers all the important basic, including how to:
• Have participants introduce themselves
• Test for understanding
• Add humor
• Give feedback
• Use questions
• Use quotations
• Have groups report
• Get through printed material
• Appoint group leaders
You’ll also get creative ways to deal with reluctant learners, make subject matter relevant, encourage participant-learning after the course has ended, develop study habits, make take-home assignments relevant and more.
Each of the book’s 20 chapters contains an overview. Within the activities is a wide variety of tips, suggestions, options, cautions, FYI tidbits and recommendations. Use the brainteasers scattered throughout the book to assess the brainpower in the room, when the class needs a mental break, after lunch to get juices flowing again or whenever you have odd minutes to fill.
500 Creative Classroom Techniques for Teachers and Trainers concludes with an appendix section packed with feedback discussion questions, grammar tests, intuition quizzes, leadership quotes—everything you need to bring training sessions to life and achieve maximum results.
In this volume you will find 25 ways to do each of the following in new and productive ways:
Add Humor
Choose Group Leaders
Conduct Non-Threatening Competition
Deal with Reluctant Learners
Develop Self-Confidence
Develop Study Habits
Encourage Managers, Principals, and Parents to Continue the Learning
Encourage Participant Learning After the Course Has Ended
Fill "Odd" Moments
Get Through Printed Material
Give Feedback
Have Groups Report
Have Participants Introduce Themselves
Make Take-Home Assignments Relevant
Make the Subject Matter Relevant
Review
Test for Understanding
Think on Your Feet
Use Questions
Use Quotations
For example, 25 Ways to Use Questions includes explanations of the following 25 uses of questions to improve experiential training:
1) Ask the external questions
2) Ask, what isn’t clear
3) Compile questions for mgt.
4) Draw up a list
5) Engage partners with each other
6) For discussion
7) For homework
8) For review
9) Get questions for others
10) Have a Q&A
11) Have groups choose questions
12) Make them bloom
13) Prepare a list from songs
14) Quotations about questions
15) Stimulate creativity
16) Stump the teacher
17) Tell the famous why story
18) To ascertain ability levels
19) To compliment
20) To encourage introspection
21) To encourage participation
22) To increase participation
23) To reinforce
