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by Nigel Wilson (Author)
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
Author Biography
Dr Nigel Wilson is an Australian lawyer and teaching professional. He has over twenty-eight years' experience in legal education, curriculum development, and legal practice. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy by the University of South Australia for his PhD thesis entitled "Regulation in the Information Age in Australia: From the Boardroom to the Courtroom". He holds degrees in Law (Honours, First Class) and Economics from the University of Adelaide and a graduate diploma in legal practice from the University of South Australia. He also holds a Master's degree in Law from Oxford University and has been awarded Harvard University's Premier Certificate in Cybersecurity.
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 two decades, he has conducted educational training programmes for Australian legal practices, workplaces, and Australian judicial colleges. Nationally and internationally, he has spoken at over fifty conferences and has twice been an invited keynote speaker at National Judicial College of Australia conferences.
From 2001 to 2008, he established and convened, pro bono, the South Australian Bar Association's (SABA) Bar Reader's Course with the SABA BRC Committee. As convenor, he designed the course curriculum, taught in the programme, and engaged with members of the courts and the profession and with national and international bars. In 2014, he was recognised by the SABA for his teaching leadership and professionalism by the award of an annual lecture.
Dr Wilson has research expertise and has published, nationally and internationally, in legal education, the law of regulation, expert evidence, the law of evidence, competition and consumer law, insurance law, tort law, corporate law, digital forensics, risk management, cybersecurity, and technology law. He has held editorial board appointments on two leading international technology law journals and been a law reform adviser to the South Australian and Australian governments.
Since 1993, he has represented Australian and international citizens, corporations, regulators, and governments in all Australian courts and tribunals. He has also held in-house legal roles and been General Counsel of South Australia's largest private corporation and also General Counsel and Head of Governance of the Indigenous Land Corporation. He has worked extensively for, and "on country" with, indigenous Australians in complex compensation claims and indigenous rights cases.
Dr Wilson is the inventor and owner of the CAISSEP(R) teaching and learning technique.
