Training Games: Simple and Effective Techniques to Engage and Motivate Learners

  • 1h 49m
  • Jennifer Whitcomb, Steve Sugar
  • Association for Talent Development
  • 2006

Training Games provides just the right amount of step-by-step help and practical advice to move you past the fear of using games and into a position of seasoned confidence. By following the advice of two veteran training professionals with hundreds of hours of classroom game experience, you will learn how to:

  • select and plan the right game for your training
  • choose the right format, from simple paper and pencil, card games, and board games, to games requiring props.
  • facilitate and evaluate your learning game play

In addition, Training Games provides 11 classroom-tested learning games that you can use immediately, or adapt, and modify to build your own unique games. A convenient game use matrix is provided to guide you in selecting the best-game that's the optimum fit for your objectives.

In this Book

  • Introduction to Training Games
  • The Beginning—Selecting Your Training Game
  • Preparations—The Game Plan
  • Training Game Formats
  • Preparing and Playing Your Game
  • Role of the Game Facilitator
  • Debriefing the Games
  • Games for Classroom Play
  • Resources