Books by Peter Renner Ed.D.
The Art of Teaching Adults has become a trusted companion to thousands of trainers and facilitators. Since its first publication in 1994, it has found a home in corporate and higher education classrooms and been adopted as a text by dozens of colleges. Without paid advertising, its reputation has grown by word of mouth: one practitioner recommending it to another.

In 2005, Peter revised this second edition by adding four new chapters and 30 fresh ways to encourage active learner participation. He updated the references and compiled a 230-item annotated glossary. Using light-hearted and jargon-free language, the book continues to offer field-tested tools to help create safe and productive learning environments.

US$ 33 CAN$ 30
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In search of solutions: sixty ways to guide your problem-solving group is loaded with interventions to help turn potentially tricky meetings and classes into focused group efforts. Ideal for self-directed teams and process facilitators to enable them to systematically define a problem, generate ideas, arrive at decisions, and formulate a plan of action. The authors walk you through the problem-solving process and provide careful instructions on sixty activities.
Coauthored with David Quinlivan-Hall
"A wonderful resource for team building and management training." --Bill Denyer, Vice President, World Savings & Loan Association
US$ 16 CAN$ 14
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The Quick Instructional Planner is a workbook for trainers and planners toiling alone or as members of a design team. In step-by-step fashion, it guides the reader in crafting a detailed plan for a course or workshop. Using a dynamic planning model, it shows ways to get started, what to include, how to generate ideas and sequence events, which teaching techniques are available and how to evaluate. Readers are free to copy the many pull-out work sheets, charts, and checklists for repeated use.
US$ 19 CAN$ 17
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"... will help first-time trainers avoid many of the wounds of launching a training program." ASTD Technical & Skills Training News

"The book is so complete ... it plots the main road of good teaching ... I recommend it unreservedly to anyone looking for inspired practical ideas." --Pru Moore, MEd, teaches instructional and facilitation skills to a wide range of adult educators; she recently used the book with teachers in Guizhou, China.