Category: Competency
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Productivity
How productive are you? Here is a quick test with some great information provided, after you finish, to let you know how productive you are. Take the test here.
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Ethical practice
I was delivering some training last week on ethics and governance and I found this ethical test which was quite useful when explaining how you would know if something was unethical. You might find it useful. In training there are often gray ethical areas that you will need to deal with. This ethical assessment is…
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Is Technology Really Required in Teaching?
The title of this post says it all really. Does anyone really know the answer to this? I, like many others, have just assumed that technology can only make learning more effective. Maybe that isn’t actually correct. Personally I think it is a great tool but only one of many tools that should be used…
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The competency system is broken
Yes, the competency system is broken. Throw it out! I was in the education system when it came in and I have watched it progress from a system which held great hope to a system which is holding back required revolutionary change. It is a system designed for the industrial age to manufacture industry ready…
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Training for real jobs
What type of training are you delivering? Most of it is probably work based which means it either enables someone to get a job (includes promotion), enhance their current role or enable them to increase their effectiveness. Does your training really do this? I have added a link to an interesting article about Google and…
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Paying teachers
I have always found the topic of teacher pay interesting. The article below does a good job of describing the difficulties and why we still haven’t see the issue resolved. I personally believe paying for performance is essential but it should not be on student results as this is not an accurate measure of good…
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Do I need to say anything?
Gillard Government to spend $50 million on Gonski advertising campaign Maybe I do need to say something. A lot of good friends were asked to re-apply for their positions in TAFE recently and then some of them were told the day before the holiday break that they had to accept volunteer redundancy (we don’t appear…
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Why are you doing this job?
Why do you teach or train or coach or educate? Don’t know? Then it is time to get out. I could point you to a million articles and videos on passion but if you don’t have it for teaching then you never going to get it and you shouldn’t be doing it. Simple as that.…
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Train that Brain
Some of you may have tried Luminosity or a few of the other brain training programs. There is a new one out there, Cognifit and I had a little play around with it this morning and I do like it’s easy operation. Not sure that I will return often but for some people this may…
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Get Real!
I have been talking to a number of groups lately about understanding yourself, your weaknesses, strengths and capabilities. It has been a very mixed audience but I wanted to aim this post at trainers. How well do you really know your strengths and weaknesses? How much do you try out new behaviours and attempt to…