Teaching Professionals: The Art of the Teaching Professional and How to Teach Professionals The CAISSEP Technique (Revised AI Edition)

By Nigel Wilson PhD

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

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Mar 26, 2021
• ISBN: 9781665703192

Nigel Wilson PhD

Dr Nigel Wilson is an Australian lawyer and teaching professional with over thirty years’ experience in legal education, curriculum development, and legal practice. 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 three decades, he has conducted educational training programmes for Australian legal practices, workplaces, and Australian judicial colleges. Nationally and internationally, he has spoken at over sixty conferences. Dr Wilson has held editorial board appointments with leading international technology law journals and been a law reform adviser to Australian governments in relation to the impact of the Digital Age. Dr Wilson has held directorships on corporate boards and been a pro bono director of Adult Learning Australia and its charity, Learning Changes Lives, Australia’s peak voice for adult learning and community education. Since 1993, he has represented Australian and international citizens, corporations, regulators, and governments in all Australian courts and tribunals and has also held national General Counsel roles.

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Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.

—Japanese proverb

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior

teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

—William Arthur Ward

CONTENTS

Author

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1     The Art of the Teaching Professional

Chapter 2     Experiential Learning for Teaching Professionals

Chapter 3     Introducing the CAISSEP Technique

Chapter 4     Teaching Small Groups

Chapter 5     Teaching Large Groups and Team Teaching

Chapter 6     Clinical Practice Teaching and Teaching Postgraduate Students

Chapter 7     Culturally Sensitive and Inclusive Teaching

Chapter 8     The Teaching-Research Nexus

Chapter 9     Teaching and Technology

Chapter 10   Conclusion: Learning More

Bibliography

AUTHOR

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Dr Nigel Wilson is an Australian lawyer and teaching professional. He has over thirty 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 three decades, he has conducted educational training programmes for Australian legal practices, workplaces, and Australian judicial colleges. Nationally and internationally, he has spoken at over sixty 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 in relation to the impact of the Digital Age.

Dr Wilson has held directorships on Australian corporate boards and been a pro bono director of Adult Learning Australia and its charity, Learning Changes Lives, Australia’s peak voice for adult learning and community education.

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® teaching and learning technique.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

To those by whom I have been taught, to those whom I have taught, and to those who teach—thank you.

To my partner, Dr Lydia Kovacev, parents, family, children, friends and colleagues, thank you for the gift this book seeks to illuminate.

In the development and realisation of Teaching Professionals, thank you to Archway Publishing and its outstanding team for their support and guidance; Darryl Bennett, Hamuck Design, for his visual design work on the CAISSEP logo and designs; Bita Forouzesh, DigiMall, for her photography; and Martin Radcliffe, A Way with Words Business Services, for his strategic support and insights.

Dr Nigel Wilson

Adelaide, South Australia

Tarntanya (the place of the red kangaroo)

CHAPTER 1

The Art of the Teaching Professional

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

—Mark van Doren¹

I chose to be a teacher because I believe that education has the power to transform the society we live in. What motivates me to be a good teacher is to be an active agent in this change that is so necessary for my country, to fight against discrimination, injustice, racism, corruption and poverty. Our responsibility as teachers is enormous, and our commitment to provide quality education must be renewed every day.

—Ana, teacher, Lima, Peru²

Teachers are change agents. What draws us to be a teacher or motivates us to keep teaching? Are we more Ana than Mark? A blend of both? Or are we motivated by very different goals and aspirations? Whatever our motivations, this book is for each one of us.

Teachers play a key role in adult education internationally. In Australia, for example, over 3 million Australians between 15 and 64 years of age are enrolled in formal study. There are 125 registered Australian higher