Claris Training after COVID

Slide 1Claris Training after COVID

What has changed, and how can we teach best going forward

Matt Navarre – 2022

Slide 2Matt Navarre

• Platform Evangelist, DIS
• FileMaker Talk Podcast
• FBA Evangelist award
• Certified in all versions
• Teaching FM since 1995

Slide 3Main Concepts

Slide 4Skills > Knowledge

Slide 5Doing > Watching

Slide 6Engage

Slide 7

• Ask questions the students should NOT know the answer to.
• Make them think

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• Our job is not to make it easy.
• Our job is guiding & facilitating change.

Slide 9“Change is the end result of all true learning”

Who knows

Slide 10How does the brain learn?

Show graph of how the beginning of the lesson is most important, then the end. Middle is all lost.

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• Retension
• Retension
• Retension

Slide 1285%

When you DO something, you retain it

Slide 1313%

When someone lectures you, the brain retains very little

Slide 14Use Zoom

*Or similar

• Make students share their screen
• Ask for volunteers, let there be a pregnant pause
• Always give positive feedback
• Ensure everyone is on similar/same version
• Take breaks!
• Adult brain can focus about 40 minutes, then needs rest

Slide 15Responses to mistakes or timid user

• Always respond positively
• “I did that exact same thing yesterday”
• I’m so glad you did that!
• Oh I WISH FileMaker worked that way
• Almost everything is perfect. Can you spot the one thing that’s stopping you? (Then provide a hint)