Product reviews for The Little Book of Inspirational Teaching Activities

I am not trained in NLP, although have been around it by running events for Topher Morrison Inc and by attending a seminar by Tony Robbins. I find that NLP is suited much more the masculine essence of explaining things logically and tangibly through the use of language. I have seen variable results in peoples lives and despite the marketing, I do not believe it is the cure all and end all of systems in terms of being able to understand the human psyche.
Having said that, the value of NLP in education is something that I can definitely appreciate because teachers who are trained in NLP will be able toread their student in a far more practical way than educators of the past and thereby connect to them as people thereby creating a feeling of caring between student and teacher. More than half the problems in communication stem from expecting others to communicate in the style we feel most comfortable in. NLP is very good for assisting people to appreciate other modalities.
The exercises that appear in this book are innovative as well as using some well tried and tested ones with a different approach. The thing I like about the philosophy of the book is that it is focusing more on emotional intelligence than just facts and figures to pass an exam. It is encouraging teachers to spend some time in each lesson to build emotional intelligence in four prime areas of ourselves, namely self esteem (belief in the self); knowing strengths and weaknesses (ability to be part of a team by focusing on strengths and improving weaknesses or allowing someone with strengths that are your weaknesses to do the job); Learning to plan for success and having the ability to take a leap of faith without trying to control the outcome.
I really enjoyed paging through the book looking at the learning point, finding one that really resonated with me and then reading the exercise and finding myself smiling at how simple it is to engage the self in learning when one understands the WHY. With many subject based teaching, there is no why to learning, whereas this book helps the educator explain to the students why one is doing the exercise and the overall result they are aiming for.
I will definitely be recommending different exercises to my adult students who sign up for learning how to learn as part of their own learning and interaction with their study buddies and/or children.