1st Edition
51 Tools for Transforming Your Training Bringing Brain-Friendly Learning to Life
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Brain-Friendly Learning is not about techniques and gimmicks. It is far more than just putting on baroque music, or playing fun games. It's a movement rather than just a method; a movement to recover the real joy of learning that combines both sizzle and substance to every part of your training. This resource provides a blueprint for a new generation of accelerated learning methods. At its heart... Read more
Introduction, Part One: Principles of brain-friendly learning, Part Two: Brain-friendly design, Part Three: Tools for brain-friendly learning, References, Further resources
Biography
Kimberley Hare is the Managing Director of Kaizen Training Limited, and a pioneering visionary for change and learning. Her focus is on helping individuals, teams and organizations to create the future they want, and to enjoy the journey. Kimberley's passion is to combine sizzle with substance to bring Brain-Friendly Learning to life in business. Larry Reynolds is a business consultant and facilitator with Kaizen Training Limited. He helps to create successful, sustainable organizations where people love to work. Larry enjoys finding the right balance in his life between family, learning, work and playing the piano.
’It fired my imagination. It set me thinking. If your aim is to enable learners to explore, integrate and make sense of knowledge or skills that will help them in their work - and for you all to have fun in the process - then the contents of this resource will put you well on the way. The outcome for me was that I felt empowered, imaginative and very enthusiastic.’ People Management ’This is an incredible book that provides a wealth of well-researched, up-to-date material with which trainers can transform their approaches to groups in order to make learning a reality. There are some very stimulating chapters in the book...The explanations are very clear, well spaced out and full with unobtrusive but text enhancing pictures, diagrams, quotations and references. Unusual ideas are put forward in the chapters dealing with rhythm and rhyme, mnemonics, stories, anecdotes and humour. This book needs to be on the desk of every trainer and manager in the country. It is a wonderful up-to-date resource that would help to enliven any collective gathering such as a board meeting or conference as well as within the rooms of a trainer. Kimberley Hare and Larry Reynolds have certainly brought brain-friendly learnging to life in this excellent publication.’ CRONER - Management Training Briefing ’If you want to make your programmes more learner-friendly, you should, withour hesitation, have a look at this book.’ Training Journal ’...this is an interesting, readable and thought-provoking publication which has value for new and experienced trainers, facilitators and learning designers...the manual is bursting with ideas and intriguing perceptions - try it.’ Diane Bailey, www.trainingzone.co.uk
