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What We Can Learn from Finnish NGOS About Resilience

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When discussing the ideas in The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , people in Finland have figured out keeping calm versus fire drill culture. Before I left for Finland, I read Timothy Walker’s Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms.

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

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Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

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I have learned the feng shui of how classroom setup impacts interaction and learning. For webinars, the platform is your classroom setup, so it important to understand how the Q/A and chat features, whether everyone can see everyone else’s chats or just the presenter. Talking and hearing (Auditory). Development. Implementation.

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What Makes Social Learning so Interesting?

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Social learning, relied solely on what one could obtain in a classroom setting, working with direct peers, or what could be conveyed back in forth on a phone. In a classroom setting, this is most clearly present in projects in which group work is assigned. The skills of individuals you have been paired with.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Reflections on Designing and Delivering Training To Get Results

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It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. And, as the facilitator, you have to be good at improvising and skilled at coaching some participants to adapt exercise so it meets their need.

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

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They capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. Networked Leadership and Learning Skills: Okay, that isn’t one word, but I couldn’t capture this idea in one word. Year in Review. Housekeeping'

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Warning: Museum Graduate Programs Spawn Legions of Zombies!

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Okay, they don't eat people's brains. Following a standardized curriculum to prepare for work in the museum field homogenizes the perspectives and skills people bring to museum jobs. But no one can list the tangible skills these programs impart. Because I already have those skills? But should they happen in a classroom?

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