Metaphors as Teaching Strategies
This morning I find myself on a very early flight to Denver, enroute to Toledo, OH to deliver the active and cooperative learning workshop for college faculty I wrote about last time. The focus of last...
View ArticleActive & Cooperative Teaching Snapshots
In the last few posts I’ve shared about the active and cooperative teaching strategies workshop I designed and delivered with the faculty team at Owens Community College. After a full day of work on...
View ArticleSchool Culture & Climate Assessment
I’m excited to welcome and introduce my dear friend and colleague, Penny Keith, Director of Professional Development for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Center of Community of Caring as a guest...
View ArticleAn Evidence-Based Prison Parenting Program Hits the Road
I’m pleased to introduce Mindy Clark, Marketing Director for the Children’s Justice Alliance (CJA), who writes this week’s guest post on Parenting Inside Out. Mindy came on board with CJA as I was...
View ArticleFour Favorite Resources of 2011
In the last 18 months I’ve made 22 trips to four colleges in four states as an instructional coach for Project DEgree and designed 35 2-hr. training modules for Oregon Child Development Coalition’s...
View ArticleSitting is the New Smoking!
Yes, it is true, there is new research that “prolonged siting increases cancer and disease risk, even with regular exercise.” That means, even with a one-hour daily jog or workout at the gym, we are at...
View ArticlePresentation Skills Training
The last couple of weeks I’ve written about the presentation skills training I designed and delivered for parents in an early childhood program. Just this week I received photos of some of the...
View ArticleTraining Activities to Develop Learned Intuition
Using my 4-P approach to closing a performance gap, the instructional design so far has gained buy-in with learners that a gap exists, provided organizational PERMISSION to reawaken and pay heed to...
View ArticleTraining Activities for Critical Analysis of Intuitive Hunches
Once I’ve used training activities to give PERMISSION to use intuition on the job, encouraged it with a PROMISE of organizational responsiveness, and supported the development of scientifically...
View ArticleThree More Critical Analysis Activities
As the final post in a series of six, today I’ll share the last three critical analysis activities for preparing employees to vet their intuitive hunches. After PERMISSION has been given to awaken...
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