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500 Creative Classroom Techniques for Teachers and Trainers

Marlene Caroselli

Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who cannot read; it will be the man who has not learned how to learn. —Herbert Gerjuoy

HRD Press • Amherst • Massachusetts

Copyright © 2006 by Marlene Caroselli.

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ISBN 0-087425-922-3

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Marlene has given us an astounding array of creative ways to handle all the nuts and bolts of participatory learning. This book will be an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to engage learners and help them understand, remember, and apply what you have taught them. — Mel Silberman, author of Active Training and 101 Ways to Make Training Active

500 Creative Classroom Concepts is a treasure of proven, as well as practical training tips. Whether you are a seasoned trainer or just starting out in the profession, you won't want to train another day without these precious gems at your fingertips. I only wish I'd had the wealth of ideas this book offers when I first started training. Thank you, Marlene, for a real prize! — Elaine Biech ebb associates inc author of Training for Dummies

I have several of Marlene's other books and she has outdone herself in this delightful volume. The book has a wonderful format, great content, passionate writing style, immediate applicability—and brainteasers that keep my neurons, axons, and dendrites in shape. Marlene has identified 20 critical tasks in a training classroom and provided 25 intriguing techniques related to each. You can...