Read these excerpts from Joye's newest book and decide for yourself if From Telling to Teaching speaks to you!

Your role as a teacher is to find as many ways as possible for your learners to show you how smart they are.

A learner-centered approach to education isn't just a matter of asking your learners, "what do you need so we can give it to you?" It is a balance of meeting your learners' needs while also providing valuable information in a format that is focused on them, energized by them and made personal by them. The teacher of a teacher-centered approach asks, 'what do I need to do to teach this topic?" The teacher in a learner-centered approach asks, "what do they need to do to learn this topic?"

In a learner-centered, dialogue approach to learning, your participants are thinking it and using it now, not in a hoped for future. I call this shifting from hope to evidence. A dialogue approach to learning means that the air will be filled with open questions and responses, that thoughts will be set in motion by words, that through conversation and wondering, adult learners will decide for themselves the meaning of new information and its importance to them. A monologue approach implies one voice - the teacher's - and right or wrong and recall questions with the meaning already determined.

Sometimes the hardest part of learning design is deciding what to leave in and what to leave out. It seems that we suffer from too much information and a reluctance to whittle it down…We much prefer 'covering information.'