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The Continuing Education Guide: The CEU and Other Professional Development Criteria
The Continuing Education Guide The CEU and Other Professional Development Criteria Author:Louis Phillips, Ed.D. This revised second edition remains the most thorough and extensive guide on how to address the CEU Criteria, ANSI/IACET Standard, and the professional development criteria used by over 20 professions. The chapters include: (1) Organization, (2) Responsibility and Control, (3) Learning Environment and Support, (4) Needs Assessments, (5) Learning... more » Outcomes, (6) Personnel, (7) Content and Instructional Methods, (8) Assessment of Learning Outcomes, (9) Awarding CEUs and Maintaining Records, and (10) Program Evaluation. Special attention is given to Needs Assessments and how needs determine learning outcomes; how content and instructional methods are selected to address learning outcomes; and how assessments are chosen to measure outcomes. Throughout the book, emphasis is given to key things to consider in changing behavior and performance in the workplace. Step-by-step strategies are given for scaffolding instructional methods, how to plan for too much content and too little time, choosing between basic and advanced content, active involvement strategies most people don t know about, and dealing with reluctant learners. This book covers both the intent and spirit of each criterion statement in addressing needs and solving performance problems. The author discusses how critical each criterion is to the other, and the failure to closely adhere to each criterion usually results in a program that does not produce results This comes from the author's experience of many years in training administrators and instructors across a wide range of occupations and professions. The author was heavily involved in the initial writing as well as later versions of the CEU criteria and its adoption by many organizations over the years. He assisted many organizations and professions in adopting the CEU or similar criteria.« less