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		<title>The Art of Effective Instruction: Teaching to Individual Learning Styles (a 5-part series)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The mission of PrepMasters and these podcasts is to create effective instructors. Are you an effective instructor? Does your expertise translate into student learning?
The art of effective instruction produces great instructors. A great instructor is someone who can turn their expertise into learning that makes a difference in their students lives. Below is an article [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prepmasters.com/blog/archives/23</link>
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		<title>Why is Train The Trainer Training important?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is important to realize that any trainer needs two separate sets of skills and knowledge. First, they need to know the topic they are teaching (subject matter expertise). And second, they need to know how to transfer that information to the student (instructional expertise).When instructors are hired to train adult students, they need both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prepmasters.com/blog/archives/21</link>
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		<title>Trainer Training: Who Is In Control?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenraising a child, pediatricians will suggest to the parents that they ask themselves Who is in control here? As a trainer, we have to ask the same question: Are our visual aids, or ourselves (the trainer) the ones in control (if the answer is our audience- that is a completely separate topic which will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prepmasters.com/blog/archives/20</link>
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		<title>Trainer Training: Details Getting In The Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boring - thats the last word we want to hear in our training evaluations! There can be many reasons why our students feel that way. A common reason for boredom and confusion is providing too much information.
Most trainers enjoy sharing knowledge with their students, and some trainers fall into the trap of getting so excited [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prepmasters.com/blog/archives/19</link>
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		<title>The Problematic Student: How to Handle a Know-it-All</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just about every class has one: the student who thinks that he or she is smarter than the trainer and knows more about the topic than the trainer does. Some of these know-it-all&#8217;s deliberately try to disrupt the class; others don&#8217;t consciously try to do so, but may nevertheless cause problems.
The know-it-all student may do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prepmasters.com/blog/archives/18</link>
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		<title>The Challenging and Rewarding Career of an Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you interested in becoming a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)? If so, you have chosen a growing and lucrative field of study that quickly pays dividends with your very first job. Becoming an Microsoft Certified Trainer is a well respected position and takes work. If you don&#8217;t mind getting down to business and believe that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prepmasters.com/blog/archives/17</link>
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		<title>Presentation Skills: The Six “Deadly Sins” to Avoid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Communication- it is an essential business skill that is required in almost every type of industry. For those in the training community, superior communication skills are not only essential, but they are a pre-requisite to successfully explaining a subject.
The ability to convey knowledge to others is a powerful skill and mustbe developed in order to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prepmasters.com/blog/archives/16</link>
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		<title>Using Instructional Media in the Classroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To follow up on our recent newsletters, our third method of losing control in a training session happens when we expect our instructional media to do the training. There is a tendency to allow the movie/slideshow/PowerPoint to do the teaching for us. 
A common student complaint is that they do not feel like they get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prepmasters.com/blog/archives/15</link>
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		<title>Train The Trainer is More Than Standing in Front of a Crowd!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The need for skilled trainers continues to grow as Americas workforce meets the challenges of changing technology and information. Acquiring new knowledge and skills is critical toyour job success and ongoing professional development.
Some workers may be able to walk onto ajob and get their hands around it immediately, but for most new employees, training is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prepmasters.com/blog/archives/14</link>
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		<title>MCT Salary Survey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are thinking of pursuing a Microsoft Certified Trainer certification, you may be wondering whether it will be worth the trouble and expense.Redmond&#8217;s 10th annual salary survey sheds some light on this. Although the survey covered IT professions in general, its findings are relevant to anyone entering the IT trainer field, including those considering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.prepmasters.com/blog/archives/13</link>
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