The Ten-Minute Trainer E-Book

Sharon L. Bowman

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Seitenzahl: 357

Beschreibung

Discover more than one hundred of Sharon Bowman'straining-room-proven exercises and activities -- many derived fromthe high-impact strategies of NLP and Accelerated Learning -- andreduce delivery time, increase retention and improve knowledge andskill transfer. These back-pocket activities are easy, quick,topic-related, and fun, and you can draw on with a minimum ofpreparation. The Ten-Minute Trainer features a variety of exercises,ranging from one to ten minutes in length, and providescontent-specific exercises as well as activities for transitioningbetween topics and gauging understanding. You'll find a usefulanswer section that explains the brain research behind the book anda special section on learning styles that ties in with thephilosophy of "learn it fast and make it last." Order your copy of this effective resource today!

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

About This Book

Why is this topic important?

What can you achieve with this book?

How is this book organized?

About Pfeiffer

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Foreword

What the Trainer’s Trainer Says About

Opening and Connections

How TV Changed You and Me

Who Needs to Know?

Twelve Benefits You’ll Get from This Book

It’s Organized to Save You Time

Walking the Talk

Part One

When They Do It, They Get It! - 150 Activities to Make the Learning Stick

A Bird’s-Eye View of 150 Activities

Chunk It

Got a Minute? - Sixty-Second Activities to Help Learners Repeat, Review, and Remember

Connections

Time Sponges

Pair Shares

Shout Outs

Think and Write

Signals

Doodles

Pop-Ups

Mark-Ups

Tickets Out

Action Plans

Celebrations

Take Five! - Five- and Ten-Minute Games That Help Learners RAP It Up: ...

Postcard Partners

The Gallery Walk

Take a Stand

Grab That Spoon!

Place Your Order

Metaphor Magic!

Let’s Trade

Each One Teach One

The Walkabout

Blackout Bingo!

Part Two

Heads Up! - Brain-Based Learning and Training

The Learning Brain

Emotion Directs Attention, Which Directs Learning

Overview of Part Two

Attention Maker, Attention Breaker - The Reticular Activating System and Learning

Picture This

What Is the RAS and What Does It Do?

Time and Energy

Learning, Teaching, and the RAS

Changes That Engage the RAS

Three Brains in One - The Triune Brain and Learning

Picture This

From Parts to Whole

The Downshifting Brain

From Connections to Community

Techniques Are Never Value-Neutral

Building the Learning Community

Pleasure, Not Pain

Back to the Beginning

Let the Compass Be Your Guide - The Learning Compass and Learning the Natural Way

Picture This

The Natural Cycle of Learning

What Is the Learning Compass and What Does It Do?

Helping Others Learn the Natural Way

Compass Questions

Mapping Your Message - Making It Stick with the Training Map

Picture This

What Is the Training Map?

What Does a Training Map Do?

Using the Training Map

Assessing Your Training Map

Power-Hour Training Templates - Time-Saving Design and Delivery Tools

Power-Hour Training Template #1 - With Five 10-Minute Lecture Segments

Power-Hour Training Template #2 - With Four 10-Minute and One 5-Minute Lecture Segments

Power-Hour Training Template #3 - With Four 10-Minute and One 5-Minute Lecture Segments

Power-Hour Training Template #4 - With Three 15-Minute Lecture Segments

Power-Hour Training Template #5 - With Two 20-Minute and One 5-Minute Lecture Segments

Power-Hour Training Sample - Using Template #1: Five 10-Minute Lecture Segments

Part Three

More Timely Training Tools

Bringing It Home to Conscious Competence

More Tools for the Consciously Competent Trainer

Get a CLUE! - Four Elements to Increase Motivation and Memory in Learning

What Are the Four CLUE Elements?

What Does CLUE Do?

The Creative Element

The Linked Element

The Useful Element

The Emotional Element

You Said It But Did They Get It? - How to Check for Understanding

Picture This

What Is Checking for Understanding?

What Does Checking for Understanding Do?

Five Activities to Check for Understanding

What’s a Picture Worth? - The Importance of Imagery in Learning

Picture This

The Two-Sided Brain

The Roles of Images and Words

What Is Imagery?

What Does Imagery Do?

Ways to Use Imagery in Training

Sample Graphic Organizers

Station Rotation - Learning a Lot in a Little Time

Picture This

What Is a Station Rotation?

What Does a Station Rotation Do?

Station Rotation Instructions

Closing and Celebration

Remarkable Resources

Many Thanks!

About the Author

Pfeiffer Publications Guide

About This Book

Why is this topic important?

Sound bites. Tag lines. Slogans. One-liners. The thirty-second spot. The sixty-second take. Small chunks of information dished up in short snippets of time. In television-dominated cultures, learners are used to this mode of information delivery: short and quick. Lengthy lectures are out. Short information chunks are in. Keeping this trend in mind, and using what we know about learning that sticks, those of us who are involved in the business of educating others need to design and deliver classes and programs that use shorter segments of time more effectively. We need to create learning experiences that are built on two fundamental learning principles of the twenty-first century: shorter segments of instruction are better than longer ones, and learners remember more when they are involved in the learning. Educating others becomes more effective, and less costly, when trainers use their time—and their learner’s time—more efficiently. Involving learners before, during, and after short segments of instruction is also the basis of brain-compatible training, that is, teaching in ways that the human brain learns best.

What can you achieve with this book?

The Ten-Minute Trainer helps you make the most of your training time. This practical, grab-it-and-go book gives you 150 ways to use teachable moments—snippets of time in which you can reinforce the learning in powerful and memorable ways. This resource also gives you a simple and practical blueprint, based on how the human brain naturally learns, for designing and delivering training quickly and effectively. You will discover the brain research that supports short, quick instructional methods, and new ways to motivate learners and increase their ability to remember and use what they learn. With The Ten-Minute Trainer as your guide, you will involve training participants in their own learning without sacrificing any training content. Best of all, you will be an expert at teaching a lot in a little time.

How is this book organized?

Because your reading time is precious, this book gives you the “how to” information first.

Part One contains 150 ways to use short segments of time to help learners review, remember, and apply important information. From the collection of “Got a Minute?” activities to the “Take Five!” games, these hands-on strategies increase learner motivation, interest, and involvement. They also help move learning into long-term memory. All the activities are from sixty seconds to ten minutes in length.

Part Two gives you the practical brain research upon which this book is based. It also explains two powerful instructional tools—the Learning Compass and the Training Map—to help you design and deliver training in less time and with better long-term results. Finally, Part Two shows you how to include the book’s concepts and activities in your own training by using five Power-Hour Training Templates.

Part Three offers you four “Get a CLUE!” elements to increase learner motivation and retention, “What’s a Picture Worth?” suggestions for making your training more image-rich, ways to check for understanding, and a unique training activity called “Station Rotation.”

You’ll also find a collection of Remarkable Resources to complement The Ten-Minute Trainer.

About Pfeiffer

Pfeiffer serves the professional development and hands-on resource needs of training and human resource practitioners and gives them products to do their jobs better. We deliver proven ideas and solutions from experts in HR development and HR management, and we offer effective and customizable tools to improve workplace performance. From novice to seasoned professional, Pfeiffer is the source you can trust to make yourself and your organization more successful.

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Essential Tools Pfeiffer’s Essential Tools resources save time and expense by offering proven, ready-to-use materials—including exercises, activities, games, instruments, and assessments—for use during a training or team-learning event. These resources are frequently offered in looseleaf or CD-ROM format to facilitate copying and customization of the material.

Pfeiffer also recognizes the remarkable power of new technologies in expanding the reach and effectiveness of training. While e-hype has often created whizbang solutions in search of a problem, we are dedicated to bringing convenience and enhancements to proven training solutions. All our e-tools comply with rigorous functionality standards. The most appropriate technology wrapped around essential content yields the perfect solution for today’s on-the-go trainers and human resource professionals.

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To Mom:

“You played a well game, girl,” and you would have been so proud of this “real” book.

And to all the eager readers who grab a handful of sixty-second ideas and create unforgettable learning experiences from quick snippets of time.

Foreword

What the Trainer’s Trainer Says About

The Ten-Minute Trainer

In this bright and zesty book, Sharon Bowman reminds us again of the basic fact of all learning: it is only what the learner creates that is learned.

Boy, do we ever need to hear this—repeatedly. We in the training field often get hung up by the belief that it is the instructor’s presentation that determines the quality of learning. And so we continue to rely on things such as the interminable PowerPoint® lecture as the centerpiece of our training programs.

But PowerPoint, overused, is nothing more than electronic chloroform. It knocks people out. Instead, our job as training professionals is to wake people up. Yes, wake people up—to their full potential for learning, for job success, and for a life that embraces the full mind, body, and spirit.

The Ten-Minute Trainer will certainly wake people up. It contains a gold mine of easy-to-use ideas for getting learners to talk, to think, to move, to create, to act—and thus to learn. And it contains a rapid design method for weaving these ideas together into effective learning programs.

Use this book as a resource. Refer to it often. Consult it when you’re stuck. It will re-awaken you to what good learning really is—a supreme act of creation on the part of the learner.

The Ten-Minute Trainer is bound to make your job easier and more fun, and make you much more effective as a designer and facilitator of learning.

Count on it.

Dave Meier Author of The Accelerated Learning HandbookDirector of the Center for Accelerated Learning Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

Opening and Connections

What’s in It for You?

Introducing You to The Ten-Minute Trainer

Quick Start

Mark-Up. Circle the answer to each question.

1. How long is the average length of a television drama, comedy, news, or documentary segment before a commercial break occurs?

a. About 20 minutes.

b. About 5 to 9 minutes.

c. About 8 to 12 minutes.

d. Not long enough.

2. How long are the commercial breaks between show segments?

a. They feel like forever.

b. Probably around 15 minutes.

c. Closer to 8 minutes

d. About 4 to 6 minutes.

Answers: If you circled 1C and 2D, congratulations. You probably watch a lot of television—or you are really good at estimating time. Either way, in this chapter you’ll discover the connection between television and training, and why this connection is important to you.

It used to be that most face-to-face instruction was pretty much straight lecture, with learners listening (maybe taking some notes) and the subject matter expert doing all the talking.