Motivate Your Students: 101 Clever Tips to Get Students to Want to Learn Themselves

Author: Bob Pike (USA)
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: Inspiring learners, it is the biggest challenge for professional trainers. This book compiles the best creative training techniques, offering simple methods to wake up drowsy participants and unique tricks for role-playing. These creative approaches make your presentations engaging and easy to understand, benefiting your learners. Only well-delivered training is effective, so training methods are just as important as training content. The concise training principles collected in this book, tested in the classroom, can make your training content clearer and more interesting. This book helps you attract and maintain your audience's attention, making the training content clearer and helping learners deeply recognize the importance of learning. The book "Motivate Your Learners" includes the best creative ideas from the past six years of the Creative Training Techniques Newsletter, which make your presentations engaging and easy to understand, maximizing the benefits for your learners. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1, Presentation Techniques, focuses on how to "season" your presentation—improving course content while enhancing its "audibility." These techniques include games, methods for highlighting key points, and simple ways to make information more meaningful, and so on. The second part, Techniques for Motivating Learners, focuses on the methods trainers use to encourage learners to take initiative in their own learning and to apply what they've learned to their work.