Instant Teaching Tools for the New Millennium

This unique teaching resource offers immediately usable, proven interactive exercises that engage the audience and make presentations lively and entertaining! Instant Teaching Tools for the New Millennium contains 87 ready-to-use, easily replicated interactive teaching exercises designed specifically for educators and trainers in the health care profession. Exercises are designed to promote student/participant involvement and self-directed learning. It features a stimulating, highly visual format and easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for each exercise. All exercises are brief and inexpensive, requiring minimal props or preparation time. Icons identify the topic, tools needed, time, preparation, implementation, and educator secrets.

• 87 teaching exercises in ready-to-use format offer creative and exciting solutions to a full range of teaching issues facing health care educators today.
• Approximately 80 original illustrations visually enhance exercises and engage both trainers and students in the learning process.
• Exercises and activities are appropriate for advanced practice and managerial levels of trainers and educators.
• Skills for teaching non-licensed personnel help educators teach individuals who have varying educational backgrounds, learning capabilities, and possible language barriers.
• Easily adaptable, field-tested techniques have been proven to inspire and motivate trainers in many occupations.

• Features exercises designed to teach over the intranet and Internet.
• Covers current issues such as the nursing shortage, ways to reach and teach all groups in the workplace (Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y), new confidentiality and practice standards, and stress management.
• Includes a CD-ROM of the entire text, making it easy to immediately use the guidelines and handouts in the book.
• CD-ROM allows users to answer questions, solve puzzles, and fill in blank fields electronically.
• Makes it quick and easy to locate all activities on a particular training area with the addition of a handy index covering all three Deck teaching manuals.

Michele L. Deck, RN, MEd, BSN, LCCE, FACCE, CEO, Gimics and Mania Educates Staff/Tool Thyme for Trainers, Metairie, LA