What makes a great teacher, leader, or expert is their ability to transform the people sitting with them in the room into teachers, leaders, and experts.
What’s Inside.
Have you ever found yourself at the front of a room, calling on the same two hand-raisers, zipping through text-heavy slides, burdened with all of the information you are trying to cover – and wondered frantically why your audience seems so disengaged (and maybe even resentful)?
This approach to running meetings, workshops, and classes is extremely common, yet it’s largely ineffective because this one-way flow of information doesn’t inspire innovation, inclusivity, or buy-in.
there’s a better way!
Be prepared.
How to generate clear objectives and goals, schedule breaks, and create useful handouts.
Create a safer environment.
Ideas for setting a welcoming ambiance, creating a braver space for introductions, and building stronger teams.
Transfer power to the participants.
Strategies to help enforce equal airtime, access prior knowledge, and minimize lectures.
Use active learning and engagement strategies.
How to integrate art projects, videos, pair-shares, quotes, and research to stimulate deep thinking.
Motivate action.
Ideas that enable participants to follow through on their plans through continued support, networking, and exit tickets.
About the author.
EVA JO MEYERS
Over the course of her career, Eva Jo Meyers has held positions as a bilingual (Spanish) classroom teacher, as an Education Director with the Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco, and as a Fulbright Scholar in Thailand, studying the influences of culture on pedagogy. She recently spent a year teaching English and American Culture at Yangtze Normal University in Chongqing, China and worked for six years administering after-school programs for the San Francisco Unified School District.
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