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Interaction Trumps Telling in Teaching
As a long time instruction designer, teacher and trainer, I know that interaction and frequent checks for understanding are more effective in helping adult learners meet performance outcomes than...
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Whole Brain Teaching for Adult Learners
As I sit in the airport waiting for my flight to San Antonio to work with one of the Project DEgree faculty teams, I’m always on the lookout for the latest strategies and resources to share with the...
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Using Demonstrations in Training
I’ve spent the last week preparing a two-day workshop for college faculty on active and cooperative teaching. This workshop is part of my instructional coaching work for Project DEgree and will be...
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Metaphors as Teaching Strategies
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Active & 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...
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School 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...
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An 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...
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Four 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...
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Sitting 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...
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Presentation Skills Training Photos
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 ArticleInteraction Trumps Telling in Teaching
As a long time instruction designer, teacher and trainer, I know that interaction and frequent checks for understanding are more effective in helping adult learners meet performance outcomes than...
View ArticleWhole Brain Teaching for Adult Learners
As I sit in the airport waiting for my flight to San Antonio to work with one of the Project DEgree faculty teams, I’m always on the lookout for the latest strategies and resources to share with the...
View ArticleUsing Demonstrations in Training
I’ve spent the last week preparing a two-day workshop for college faculty on active and cooperative teaching. This workshop is part of my instructional coaching work for Project DEgree and will be...
View ArticleMetaphors 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...
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