101 Ways to Make Training Active

This book contains 101 concrete strategies to design and deliver active training for vir- tually any topic. You will discover a tool kit overflowing with creative, challenging, and fun ways to enliven learning. By browsing through this collection, you can identify those strategies that hold the most promise for your situation and apply them to your topic and learning objectives. To aid you in this process, each strategy is illustrated with a case example. This book also contains twenty how-to lists that any trainer will find indispensable when facilitating active training. Using this advice, you will have a wide variety of options for achieving such goals as setting up the classroom for active training, obtaining par- ticipation at any time, utilizing props, making lectures active, and
more.
Two Hundred Tips
Ten Layouts for Setting Up a Training Classroom
Ten Techniques for Learning Names
Ten Questions for Obtaining Participant Expectations
Ten Methods for Obtaining Participation
Ten Assignments to Give Learning Partners
Ten Occasions to Use Response Cards
Ten Ways to Make Learning Visual
Ten Suggestions for Activating a Lecture
Ten Common Games Trainers Play
Ten Strategies for Forming Groups
Ten Alternatives for Selecting Group Leaders and Filling Other Jobs  
Ten Tips When Facilitating Discussion
Ten Options for Role Playing
Ten Steps to Use When Facilitating Experiential Activities
Ten Timesavers When Active Training Takes Time
Ten Tricks for Calling Participants to Order
Ten Props That Dramatize Learning
Ten Interventions for Regaining Control of the Group
Ten Tips for Online Active Learning