50 Dramatic Engagers for Learning and Performance e-bog

Learn by doing! This is a must-have guide on active and collaborative strategies aligned with the brains natural way of learning. This resource is based on educational research, neuroscience, and drama-based learning and contains practical suggestions on how to incorporate engagement into different learning objectives. The authors bring an innovative perspective to teaching and training. This practical guide allows for almost any content, message, and learning point to be relayed more dramatically and quickly than with a lecture. This practical sourcebook adopts an active and collaborative approach to learning and performance by taking on what appears to look like complicated strategies and collapses them into 50 easy-to-do and easy-to-understand activities. The guide also provides a strong rationale and offers basic brain principles into every creative exercise. Readers will be able to: Reduce brain distractions Increase attention span Increase retention Heighten sensory stimuli Help participants transfer new information from short-term to long-term memory Reinforce lesson planning and training design