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Growing Yourself as a Learning Facilitator

Ekan You sound like an excellent teacher. What a great way to help learners understand that their learning goes on for their entire life. Lou Russell

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Growing Yourself as a Learning Facilitator

Ekan: Are there any specific techniques or tools that you like to use to help your learners learn in a way that encourages enthusiasm and retention? Lou Russell

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Growing Yourself as a Learning Facilitator

Ekan: Can you please share specifics on how you would do this? Lou Russell

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Creating a Multi-sensory Learning Environment

Dear Brenda: If used well, these things will keep students' attention, but if used incorrectly, they may distract a student. Look through the other responses to this question - how could you leverage new ideas about color, etc. in your classrooms? Lou Russell

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Growing Yourself as a Learning Facilitator

Dear Brenda: Can you give me some examples specifically about how you would model these behaviors in your classrooms? Lou Russell

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Growing Yourself as a Learning Facilitator

Kevin: Here's a little quote for you - our passion is the same - Enable me to teach with vision, for I shape the future. Stay focused on the learner. All will be well. Lou Russell

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Joseph - Greeting students when they enter is amazingly powerful. Many instructors forget about this simple and important step. Check out my post to Jean - the fast music might be a problem. How can you use the set-up of the room to trigger the 7 intelligences? Lou Russell

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Joseph: Well put. I think it's really important to try something a little different in each class to see if you can improve the students' learning a little more each time. I've learned so much reading, tweaking and trying new things in class. Lou Russell

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Mapping How People Learn to the Classroom

Linda: Good answer. Be careful with fast paced music (over 60 beats per minute) during an exercise unless you mean to create confusion and stress. Lou Russell

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Creating a Multi-sensory Learning Environment

Linda - Turns out my undergrad is in Computer Science (I joke that it has expired) but my company still does lots of technical training. I love your ideas for 'making it real'. Here's a fun way to teach MS Word, or Publisher or something creation oriented - have students type their favorite movie on the screen (for example), then move to the next workstation (kind of like musical chairs) and type something else, then on and on until they are back to their own machine. It's very fun and you can use it to emphasize different functions (for example,… >>>