Please join David Mayne for a very special book launch and presentation at our Port Macquarie Library on Wednesday 21st August at 5.30pm.

David has been a vocational educator for 40 years and has been sharing his vast experience through training workshops and public speaking across the world.

Are you wanting to start a career in vocational education? Maybe you are a vocational educator who feels their methods to be refreshed?

Who Says You Can’t Teach an Old Dog New Tricks?

David compiles his decades of experience in Who Says You Can’t Teach an Old Dog New Tricks?, a comprehensive manual for all things vocational education. David breaks down everything from the educational philosophies that gave rise to vocational education, to must-know information of the industry, to the best ways to present yourself on the first day of class.

Who Says You Can’t Teach an Old Dog New Tricks?, is the go-to-guide for any and all questions you may have as a vocational educator, whether you’re an old dog yourself, or a new pup!

Foreword by Associate Professor Raymond Hodgson

David Mayne is a colossus in the world of vocational education. It is one thing to have knowledge and experience in education; it is an entirely different thing to have the skills to impart these attributes. David has both of these qualities in spades. I have followed David’s career in adult education for over a decade now, and like so many, I’ve come to thoroughly admire his command of his craft. I have watched him guide, tutor and mentor multitudes of students over the years, and I’ve been in awe to see so many of their lives transformed.

When David approaches an audience, he has a presence about him that commands their full attention. Watching him and listening to him address a gathering, you would assume that this man is a natural – he’s been born with these exceptional gifts of communication. But it’s fascinating to learn that these precious skills are not innate – they are learned – through education and life experience. David has been generous enough to share these skills and his own life lessons that have led him to become the highly sought-out public speaker, the educator, the outstanding raconteur that he is.  I spend much of my life as an educator of undergraduate and postgraduate medical students and doctors, and for years I felt there was nothing I needed to do to improve in my teaching and mentoring techniques. But to my wonderful surprise, I found David’s book to be an invaluable asset to me to refine and improve my educational style.  As a result, my own students have benefited enormously.

I highly recommend this book to vocational educators old and new, and to students and participants in adult education who wish to get the very best out of their educational experience.