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500 Creative Classroom Techniques for Teachers and Trainers
Marlene Caroselli

Make your teaching and their learning fun, fast-paced and functional. This toolkit of 500 tips and techniques is designed for trainers at all levels of experience who enjoy experimenting, discovering and evolving.

500 Creative Classroom Techniques for Teachers and Trainers covers all the important basic, including how to:
• Have participants introduce themselves
• Test for understanding
• Add humor
• Give feedback
• Use questions
• Use quotations
• Have groups report
• Get through printed material
• Appoint group leaders

You’ll also get creative ways to deal with reluctant learners, make subject matter relevant, encourage participant-learning after the course has ended, develop study habits, make take-home assignments relevant and more.

Each of the book’s 20 chapters contains an overview. Within the activities is a wide variety of tips, suggestions, options, cautions, FYI tidbits and recommendations. Use the brainteasers scattered throughout the book to assess the brainpower in the room, when the class needs a mental break, after lunch to get juices flowing again or whenever you have odd minutes to fill.

500 Creative Classroom Techniques for Teachers and Trainers concludes with an appendix section packed with feedback discussion questions, grammar tests, intuition quizzes, leadership quotes—everything you need to bring training sessions to life and achieve maximum results.

In this volume you will find 25 ways to do each of the following in new and productive ways:

Add Humor

Choose Group Leaders

Conduct Non-Threatening Competition

Deal with Reluctant Learners

Develop Self-Confidence         

Develop Study Habits

Encourage Managers, Principals, and Parents to Continue the Learning 

Encourage Participant Learning After the Course Has Ended    

Fill "Odd" Moments

Get Through Printed Material

Give Feedback

Have Groups Report

Have Participants Introduce Themselves           

Make Take-Home Assignments Relevant

Make the Subject Matter Relevant

Review

Test for Understanding

Think on Your Feet

Use Questions

Use Quotations

For example, 25 Ways to Use Questions includes explanations of the following 25 uses of questions to improve experiential training:

1) Ask the external questions

2) Ask, what isn’t clear

3) Compile questions for mgt.

4) Draw up a list

5) Engage partners with each other

6) For discussion

7) For homework

8) For review

9) Get questions for others

10) Have a Q&A

11) Have groups choose questions

12) Make them bloom

13) Prepare a list from songs

14) Quotations about questions

15) Stimulate creativity

16) Stump the teacher

17) Tell the famous why story

18) To ascertain ability levels

19) To compliment

20) To encourage introspection

21) To encourage participation

22) To increase participation

23) To reinforce