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...
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...
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...
Exploring Diversity to Engage in Meaningful Conversation
Diversity is more than a word; it’s a conversation. It requires definition, context, perspective. It has been applied to groups, to initiatives, to companies, to food, to ecosystems. Diversity can and does...
Self Directed Learning as a Training Solution
This is part of a 3-part series focusing on applying adult learning theory in the workplace. To see the other articles, view A Brief Intro to Adult Learning Theory and...
Using Learning Contracts to Facilitate Success
Learning contracts can be a great tool to clearly define course or training expectations for the instructor/trainer and the student/employee. Although an employer may hope that information provided in...
Finding the Ideal Solution: 3 Approaches to Problem Solving
As an avid learner, I can’t pass up the chance to learn new things. In this case, I took a Problem Solving course back a few years ago that...
Creating A Positive Learning Environment
If you haven’t gotten a chance to, I highly recommend reading Ralph Brockett’s Teaching Adults: A Practical Guide for New Teachers. Assigned in my Processes and Methods course, it...