500 Tips for Trainers - Softcover

Race, Phil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 088415288X ISBN 13: 9780884152880

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

'500 Tips for Trainers' is a treasure trove of more than 500 enlightening, practical suggestions. all are easy to read and simple to use.

This handbook is great as a quick reference when it's time to:
*organize the venue
* create flip charts and handouts
* motivate the participants
* fill five minutes until coffee!

This entertaining book is packed with good ideas, creative techniques, and extensive appendices available for photocopying. It is a basic handbook for trainers in areas such as industry, government, and healthcare, as well as for personnel and HRD staff, and staff development officers in education.

Phil Race, an open and flexible learning specialist, conducts staff development workshops on learning, teaching, and assessment throughout the world. He has co-authored many books, including '500 Tips for Tutors', '500 Tips for Teachers' and 'Assess Your Own Teaching Quality'.

Brenda Smith is teaching and learning quality manager at Nottingham Trent University. She facilitates seminars and is co-editor of 'Research, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education'.

About this title

Book Description:

500 Tips for Trainers offers around 500 practical suggestions for trainers on a wide variety of aspects of designing, delivering and evaluating training programmes and resources. The book covers such topics as planning your programme, organizing the venue, running the workshop and using resources effectively.

About the Author:

Phil Race is Emeritus Professor of Educational Development of the University of Glamorgan. Since taking early retirement in 1995, he travels extensively running staff-development workshops on assessment, teaching methods, models of learning, and the design of open learning materials.

He is Visiting Professor at the European Business School, London, where he is also Programme Director for the EBS Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. He also led the University of Durham's Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education until March 2000. He is normally to be found in Newcastle-upon-Tyne at weekends, and travels from York midweek.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 088415288X
• ISBN 13: 9780884152880
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 138