Games that Teach

• Experience for yourself how different types of games can engage learners and promote meaningful learning.

• Receive a checklist for selecting and evaluating games.

• Learn strategies to handle resistance to using games in learning programs.

• Take home templates to help you design and develop games quickly and inexpensively.

• Learn how to properly debrief games in six stages so that your learners gain meaning, useful insights, and value.

• Leave with over 60 descriptions and examples of icebreakers, learning games, and closers.

• Receive Complimentary Post-Learning Sustainment.

• Describe the relevance of games to adult learning principles.

• Use strategies for handling learner resistance to learning games.

• Identify types of games.

• Explain the advantages of using various types of games.

• Select appropriate and effective games.

• Evaluate the appropriateness and effectiveness of games.

• Discuss the value of debriefing games.

• Select and create post-game debriefing questions.

• Design an effective game.

FUNDAMENTALS OF USING GAMES

• Why use games?

• Learning Principles and Games.

• Strategies for Dealing with Resistance to Games.

• Facilitation Tips.

• Selecting and Evaluating Games.

• Did they learn anything? (The 6 Stages of Debriefing Games).

TYPES OF GAMES

• Guidelines for Creating, Selecting, and Using:

  • Ice breakers

  • Learning games

  • Closers.

• Sample Games

DESIGNING AND DEVELOPING GAMES

• Faster, Cheaper, Better Games.

• Templates