Learning is a lifelong journey. A recent purchase of a 29-foot recreational vehicle has definitely increased that learning curve for me. What calamities have I learned from this week?
Three years after my career began (in 1969), I had developed a variety of training programs for internal use that ranged in length from two hours to three weeks. I learned to break people into groups and to give them hands-on opportunities to apply the content being covered. Yet, I continued to rely upon a lecture format. That changed in 1973, when I traveled from Denver to Minneapolis to evaluate a seminar...
Why should educators choose to integrate humor into all aspects of their teaching? It's the way to turn ho-hum into hum-dinger!
Here is a list of the top 10 fundamental reasons why successful educators purposefully choose humor as an effective teaching strategy.
Can you predict the future? Of course you can! Use this creative closer to help participants visualize themselves using what they have learned successfully.
Sample Standard: The student understands economic systems with an emphasis on the United States
Grade Level: 5-6
Time: 15-20 minutes
This activity was submitted by Carole Pankow from South St. Paul Junior High in MN who uses it in her Remedial Reading class to gain students' attention and hook them into the content for the lesson.
Here is a list of upcoming workshops -- both public and those specifically for educators -- for the next quarter. For dates further out, click on the link at the end of the article.
The Korean Leadership Center, under the guidance of Ken Gimm, won the Pike's Peak award from The Bob Pike Group at their seventeenth annual conference in Minneapolis on Sept. 15, 2010.
This morning, I was thinking of the importance of attitudes. I remembered something that happened in 1974.
I had just finished leading a group through a seminar called "Adventures in Attitudes..."
At the annual Bob Pike Group conference, one attendee asked the following question. Because of the seemingly renewed interest in one-on-one training, I want to also answer that here. I also mention three sources for easily implemented training ideas you can buy at the links provided.
