ThinkAbout Designingâ„¢

Module summary

ThinkAbout™ designing provides teachers, trainers and presenters with practical tools for designing presentations and learning events.  The materials help users understand why Whole Brain® instruction is necessary to reach all learners and to accomplish sustained learning.

Who should attend?

• Instructors, teachers, trainers, presenters
• Anyone involved in learning design
• Anyone who has to design and deliver a presentation of any sort

Prerequisites

Participants need to have attended the Start Thinking workshop or have received an in-depth debrief of their HBDI® Profile.

Typical time investment

3 to 4 hours

Key learning points

• Stimulates and exercises multiple intelligences
• Makes learning more exciting
• Makes teaching/training more fun
• Provides basis for greater understanding and acceptance of learning similarities and differences
• Reduces boredom and fatigue
• Provides rationale and opportunity for experiential and discovery learning
• Facilitates effective use of different styles as part of the learning process

Learning outcomes

At the end of this module participants will be able to:

• capture the attention and engage all learners
• design and deliver instruction that sustains learning
• reduce the time needed to learn
• increase learner satisfaction
• increase the return on resources devoted to the instructional design process.

Participant materials

Each participant receives the following materials:

• a deck of 64 diagnostic cards
• a complete book of instructions
• ABCD’s of Whole Brain instruction
• Design IT poster for a glance review
• reproducible masters.

Module topics

• ABCD’s of Whole Brain instructional design
• Benefits of Whole Brain design
• Eight design fundamentals
• What happens without Whole Brain instruction
• Learning frustrations
• Factors affecting learning
• How I like to learn

Applying brain dominance to teaching and learning

• Using the Design IT cards
• IT’s me card sort exercise
• Diagnose IT card sort exercise
• Design IT card sort exercise
• Group Design IT card sort

Next 24 hours—from insight to action

• Reinforcing the learning
• Action planning
• On-the-job application
• Initiates the transfer of skills to the job

Module summary

• Reviews module content
• Reinforces the key learning points