Brilliance by Design
Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage
By: Vicki Halsey
Published: January 10, 2011
Format: Paperback, 216 pages
ISBN-10: 9781605094229
ISBN-13: 978-1605094229
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
"And now it's time for you to bring out the brilliance in the thousands of others who are hiding,hoping to stay under the radar, not realizing how much they have been limiting their potential by diffusing their vision", writes Vice president of Applied Learning for The Ken Blanchard Companies, Vicki Halsey, in her inspirational and revolutionary book Brilliance by Design: Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage. The author describes how to uncover the brilliance in learners, through her groundbreaking educational techniques, that place the learner as the center of the focus.
Vicki Halsey presents a radically new approach for inspiring the latent brilliance in learners to come to the forefront. Learning new ideas and techniques changes a person in many exciting ways, and the author's fresh thinking brings forth those transformational outcomes. For Vicki Halsey, it's essential to turn previous teaching ideas upside down. Instead of concentrating on the role of content, no matter how well designed or formulated, the author places the student to front and center of the learning process. Instead of focusing on what is being taught, Vicki Halsey stresses the critical importance on how the material is being presented to the learner. Through developing what the author calls a learner-centered mindset, educators and trainers can shift their emphasis from thinking about how smart the learners are, to a focus on how the learner is smart.
Vicki Halsey (photo left) presents a fresh approach to learning through extreme engagement. By recognizing that brilliance is an ongoing process, and that brilliance can be unlocked in anyone at any time, the author alters the way teachers and trainers will think about their students. To support her powerful and breakthrough learning concept, Vicki Halsey introduces the ENGAGE learning system. This new program model consists of the following components:
* Energize Learners
* Navigate Content
* Generate meaning
* Apply to Real World
* Gauge and Calibrate
* Extend Learning to Action
For me, the power of the book is how Vicki Halsey provides both the theoretical framework and the practical tools for transforming the learning experience to one centered on the learner. In place of the traditional teacher and course material based approach to learning, the author presents a more specialized model that supports and appreciated the different learning styles of different people. At the same time, Vicki Halsey shares the concept of brilliance in everyone. Through the expectation of brilliance and superior performance, combined with the engaging and revolutionary learner-centered mindset, all students are able to learn and recognize their own brilliance.
Vicki Halsey strengthens the book even further through the addition of some valuable learning and assessment resources as an appendix to the book. Combined with the recognition that brilliance can be found and released in everyone, and a renewed focus on how students learn, the ENGAGE model presented in the book becomes a system that will replace most standard teaching and training techniques. The shift in focus from the material and the instructor, to zeroing in on the needs and abilities of the learner, changes the way teaching takes place and learning happens. This book renders the previous teaching models obsolete.
I highly the learning transformational book Brilliance by Design: Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage by Vicki Halsey, to anyone seeking a more effective and learner oriented model for teachers, trainers, and coaches. This breakthrough learning system will forever alter the way that educators and organizations think about imparting knowledge and ideas to others.
Read the important and paradigm shifting book Brilliance by Design: Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage by Vicki Halsey, and put the learner-centric approach of the ENGAGE system to work for your organization. The learners will be more engaged, and their true brilliance will be released for the benefit of everyone.
