What Techniques Do You Use to Begin a Lesson?
Last week in my Teaching Adults class, Dr. Day began class by setting a xylophone on the table. While he did not immediately use it, it did make use wonder… Read more »
How Do You Weave Motivational Strategies Into Your Instructional Design?
Over the past two weeks, I have been focusing on the Motivational Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching developed by Wlodkowski and Ginsberg. This framework is presented in its entirety in Wlodkowski’s book, Enhancing… Read more »
Follow Up on Adult Learning Webinar
This week, I gave three sessions on How Teaching Adults Impacts your Instruction. A number of you asked if the session was recorded. Well, it was; however, it has been… Read more »
How Do We Assess Adult Learners Without Necessarily Testing Them?
In the last section of Wlodkowski’s Motivational Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching from his book Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn: A Comprehensive Guide for Teaching All Adults*, he focuses on engendering competence among… Read more »
How Do We Make Learning Interesting?
If learners are bored, learning diminishes. We need to keep learning interesting and relevant if we want to learners to participate and learn. As Wlodkowski points out in his book, Enhancing Adult… Read more »
How to Create a Cheap (Free) Secure Photo Database?
On three separate occasions, teams I have worked with have had a need to develop a photo database so they could rapidly find photos shared among a team. Each time,… Read more »