Teaching Professionals
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Teachers are change agents, each motivated by different goals and aspirations. All educators understand that the teaching process, especially surrounding adult learning, can be creative, challenging, complex, and full of joys and frustrations.
In this revised, multi-award winning edition, Dr Nigel Wilson, a seasoned educator, lawyer, and inventor of the CAISSEP teaching and learning technique, provides insights, guidance, and tools to challenge, inform, and stimulate the desires of teachers globally (whether in education, business, or otherwise) who wish to improve their craft and develop the art (and science) of educating adult learners.
This revised edition provides key insights, tools, questions and techniques for the effective use of technology and AI. Through his proven methodologies, teachers will learn a variety of teaching and learning techniques based on international best practices that include:
. the key principles of effective adult learning;
. the four elements of experiential learning;
. a variety of practical teaching techniques and approaches;
. guidance on how to develop a teaching plan utilizing the CAISSEP template; and
. ways in which technology (including AI) can benefit teaching methodologies.
International reviews of award-winning Teaching Professionals!
"The author's innovative CAISSEP Technique is a comprehensive tool/resource that uses progressive teaching and the newest learning techniques. ... Wilson is a rare find?a practitioner with expertise."
-The US Review of Books
"No teacher and no learner serious about the educational experience should be without this powerfully insightful book. Dr Nigel Wilson's CAISSEP Technique brings to life the free and equal exchange of ideas long the hallmark of true learning."
- Professor Paul Babie, Adelaide Law School, The University of Adelaide
"Reading this book was a delight .. a great book not just for adult educators but also for teaching professionals that work in kindergartens, high schools, and institutions of higher learning. ... Dr. Wilson is a brilliant writer and his way of blending topics and related subjects encourages one to read more. .. Teaching Professionals provides readers with actionable information they can put to use immediately to enhance their teaching abilities."
- Literary Titan
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Dr Nigel Wilson is an Australian lawyer and teaching professional with over thirty years' experience in legal education, curriculum development, and legal practice.
As an expert teaching professional since 1992, Dr Wilson has been a tutor; seminar leader; examiner; course coordinator; continuing professional development presenter; convenor; senior lecturer; and director of studies of undergraduate, postgraduate, and post-admission law programmes. He has extensive experience across undergraduate and postgraduate courses, practical legal training, clinical legal practice, corporate professional development and post-admission barrister education programmes.
For over three decades, he has conducted educational training programmes for Australian legal practices, workplaces, and Australian judicial colleges. Nationally and internationally, he has spoken at over sixty conferences.
Dr Wilson has held editorial board appointments with leading international technology law journals and been a law reform adviser to Australian governments in relation to the impact of the Digital Age. Dr Wilson has held directorships on corporate boards and been a pro bono director of Adult Learning Australia and its charity, Learning Changes Lives, Australia's peak voice for adult learning and community education.
Since 1993, he has represented Australian and international citizens, corporations, regulators, and governments in all Australian courts and tribunals and has also held national General Counsel roles.
