Category: professional development
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What makes a great teacher?
No, I am not going to discuss this topic again. I have covered this topic in this blog a number of times as well as holding a competition recently to describe the A to Z characteristics of an excellent teacher. There was a very interesting TV show on recently which covered this topic with a…
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Unique?
This weeks training tips 56 video has been posted at all of the usual places and this week it covers being unique. Being unique is what sets you apart from the average trainer and makes you a superior trainer. Of course being unique is just one factor. You also have to be effective. No point…
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The power of a great conclusion
I believe that most trainers struggle with making a good conclusion to their sessions. For some it just seems to fizzle out or it is the old, “got any questions, no, well see you next week”. A great conclusion rounds up the session, makes it whole and finishes with impact. That critical impact makes participants…
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I know what education will look like in the future
Actually I don’t really know but I know that it will reflect everything else around us as we move forward into the future. Unfortunately education and training are highly reactive. They both respond with a fairly large time lag to a multitude of other factors that have already changed. Education and training are typically the…
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The amazing brain
One thing we really need to do as trainers is attempt to keep up with science as it discovers more and more about the operation of the human brain. As trainers we often forget that though we are always attempting to deal with the whole person we are really interacting with that person’s brain.…
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Brilliant Program Design
The 6th episode of Ask Logicool covers how to design a training program or session which will hold participant’s attention, interest and focus. This is a follow on from the last episode which covered how the trainer can maintain the participant’s attention, interest and focus. Both of these videos can be found at the usual…
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A new training term?
Here’s a new training term for you, edupreneur. Well at least it was for me. I picked this up from a post at the Huffington Post. You can read it here. There appears to be a real educational revolution happening in America as opposed to our educational reshuffle which has really amounted to very little.…
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More on the online debate
It doesn’t take very long to find an article on the online education debate. Part of what I hope my role is in this blog is to review a lot of information and pass onto you some of the better articles, saving you the time taken to scan thousands of useless and poorly written posts…
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New Horizon report released
If you haven’t read a Horizon Report then start now. You don’t have to read the whole thing. You can just read this nice little summary provided by the education.au. Click here to read this post. You can access the full report from this post as well or just click here. A quick skim over…