Good Teaching is Good Teaching

A significant portion of the instructional design I do and much of my previous teaching experience has been with vulnerable adult populations. By vulnerable, I mean adults who have involvement with various authorities and social service agencies because of life challenges they've experienced and/or choices they've made.

Fabulous Adult Learning

Last time I wrote about the unrealized potential of some adult learning opportunities. Now I have the pleasure of sharing an amazingly great adult learning experience that I had just last week!

Training Adult Learners

Over the last year or two I have attended a handful of professional development conferences designed for educators desiring to improve their practice. The most puzzling (and unfortunately repeating) occurrence at these different workshops has been a frustrating lack of attention to how adults learn! How could this be? This is continuing education for educators by educators!

Instructional Design Contracting 101

This week I received an inquiry from a teacher who had been asked to take a successful instructional program he had designed and delivered and turn it into a curriculum that could be used by others in his school. He wrote to me asking for tips on estimating his time for this instructional design project as he was preparing a proposal for a contract with his school.

College Project Finale

When I last left off with this project, the team of college instructors had designed four assignments that would facilitate the students answering the driving question, how are we alike, how are we different and how have we worked with those differences to become an actual community?