Posted By John Blake | Sep 03, 2018 | No Comments
Whole-of-organisation approach to promoting well-being: Reflecting on a nine year Australian qualitative longitudinal study, Johnson comments ‘Students valued teachers who actually listened to them! Teachers are often judged on their ability to listen to students.’ (Johnson, B., 2008) Although written for pedagogical consideration, Johnson...
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Posted By John Blake | Aug 14, 2018 | No Comments
Not phones; teachers taking the learning environment outdoors can develop inherent student engagement mitigating potential boredom. Reading at a desk or reading under a tree? Does it matter where we read? “Teachers should present interesting, meaningful, and challenging content to their students, motivate students...
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Posted By John Blake | May 15, 2018 | No Comments
My daughter could have had her certificate revoked! Perusing an assessment task from High School brought home, I felt compelled to warn my daughter’s teacher of the danger he was putting his RTO into. On the assessment instrument was not simply one incorrect Unit...
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Posted By John Blake | Jan 17, 2018 | No Comments
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danschawbel/2017/11/01/10-workplace-trends-youll-see-in-2018/#871e5904bf22 Dan Schawbel (Forbes.com contributor) shines a light on 2018 potential American workplace trends and I see a dramatic relationship to training based on Schawbel’s hundreds of conversations with executives and workers, a series of national and global online surveys and secondary research from...
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Posted By John Blake | Sep 07, 2017 | No Comments
(Vocational Education Training Three-letter acronyms) In a similar vein to “Could you move the Camira? I need to get the Torana out so I can get to the Commodore…” we also have Australian Vocational Education Training jargon that no one but Aussies understand. Come...
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Posted By John Blake | Apr 07, 2017 | No Comments
Are you training? Are you MAD? No, seriously, are you Making A Difference in your learners lives? Do you plan different teaching styles or resources to help your participants absorb and retain necessary information? Paediatrician Von Restorff popularised the Isolation Paradigm which supports the...
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