Recommended Reading Non-fiction Books The Courage to Teach – Parker Palmer (click here to read my book review) Teaching Adults: A Practical Guide for New Teachers – Ralph G. Brockett Power, Privilege and Difference – Allan G. Johnson Sit and Get Won’t Grow Dendrites – Marcia L. Tate Adult Learning Linking Theory and Practice...
Women’s History Month Initiative – Empowering Yourself and the Women Around You
Let’s get a little personal Below is an email I sent to the women in my life. After having numerous conversations with friends, coworkers, former coworkers, yoga buddies, you name it, I started to realize that we’re all secretly living the same life. We’re struggling with the same things but we don’t know how...
Leading with Strength and Vision – A Woman’s Guide to Strategic Communication
Session Overview Female leaders exist in all forms, from Director level to teachers in the classroom. Regardless of your title or role, there are opportunities to establish yourself as a leader in every interaction. At first, stepping up can feel overwhelming; you might be concerned about what you should or shouldn’t say, or how...
Quick Tips for Productivity
You know how, at the beginning of the year, you make a bunch of plans and resolutions? You start out strong, everything is going great and then suddenly it’s February and you’re already behind. Well! Let’s go over a few tips to get you back on track! Prioritize Set a Time Frame for Your...
Tell Me the Meaning of Stupid
Sometimes a word is more than that. “I’m stupid about this stuff.” I’d heard this phrase from a family member as she spoke about saving docs to Google Drive. “I felt stupid asking for help.” I’d heard this phrase from a friend as she described searching for tools in a hardware store. “I’m stupid....
Task Mapping – Learning New Words
In possessing fluency in the English language, educators sometimes forget how much prior knowledge is required to learn a new word. In the last week, I’ve found myself explaining the concept of task mapping often. It’s an extremely valuable technique that can be used to break down a task into its smallest parts, allowing...
Telling Ain’t Training – Pt 7: Workplace Reference Guide?
Final Verdict In short, Telling Ain’t Training is a valuable reference guide for anyone who is in a training or informal education setting. If for nothing else, the authors do a fantastic job explaining why SMEs don’t always make the best teachers and providing guidance around how to get them where they need to...
Telling Ain’t Training – Pt 6: Technology Integration
Overview During this final post, I’ll cover the potential benefits of integrating technology in training. There are several considerations, most importantly the impact they can have on the efficacy of the training. Stolovitch and Keeps summarize these factors in saying, When it comes to training efficiency, the measure is fast and cheap. When it...
Telling Ain’t Training – Pt 5: Training in a Collaborative Workplace
I’m going to tell you a not-so-secret. Training adults is a game of social circles and politics. At one of my employers, training required a lot of buy in from different groups and participants generally wanted to fell like they were actively contributing to the event, rather than be on the receiving end of...
Utilizing Confirming and Corrective Feedback
A Familiar Scenario Imagine you spent an entire weekend writing a paper for your Instructional Design course. It’s a lot of work and you’re unfamiliar with the content. You dedicate a few hours to reviewing the syllabus, assignment description and resources and you feel pretty confident in your final result. When you get the...