500 Creative Classroom Techniques for Teachers and Trainers

HRD Press, January 2006, Pages: 300

Approach any training challenge with these new, fresh and inspired solutions

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.

Please note: Hard copies are not available for sale for clients based in Europe

Introduction
An Investor’s Guide

Chapter 1: 25 Ways to Have Participants Introduce Themselves
Chapter 2: 25 Ways to Test for Understanding
Chapter 3: 25 Ways to Add Humor
Chapter 4: 25 Ways to Give Feedback
Chapter 5: 25 Ways to Use Questions
Chapter 6: 25 Ways to Use Quotations
Chapter 7: 25 Ways to Have Groups Report
Chapter 8: 25 Ways to Get Through Printed Material
Chapter 9: 25 Ways to Choose Group Leaders
Chapter 10: 25 Ways to Fill "Odd" Moments
Chapter 11: 25 Ways to Deal with Reluctant Learners
Chapter 12: 25 Ways to Make the Subject Matter Relevant
Chapter 13: 25 Ways to Review
Chapter 14: 25 Ways to Encourage Participant Learning After the Course Has Ended
Chapter 15: 25 Ways to Encourage Managers, Principals, and Parents to
Continue the Learning
Chapter 16: 25 Ways to Develop Study Habits
Chapter 17: 25 Ways to Conduct Non-Threatening Competition
Chapter 18: 25 Ways to Make Take-Home Assignments Relevant
Chapter 19: 25 Ways to Think on Your Feet
Chapter 20: 25 Ways to Develop Self-Confidence

Appendix
Collective Nouns
Discussion Questions About Feedback
Sample Grammar Test
Sample Intuition Quiz
Selected Quotations on Leadership
Thought-Provoking Proverbs
Sample Letters of Commendation
A Training Checklist

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