These teaching tips help educators grab and maintain students’ attention through engaging presentation techniques for tone of voice, body language, pacing, and graphic displays.Every teacher needs help. Here educators Mark Reardon and Rob Abernathy offer advice that might help any teacher. Chapters include:
- Ask Opening Questions
- Get visual
- Preview Coming Attractions
- Pick up the Pace
- Promote Intelligent Student Engagement
- Dramatize Your Point
- Regain Focus with Diffusers
- Ask for Class-wide Signaling
- Celebrate Success
- And Much more!
Each tip includes an explanation of the strategy, an activity to help readers integrate the skill into their repertoire, a learning strategy, and a self-reflection prompt.
Mark Reardon: Mark Reardon is the CEO of Centre Point Education, a consulting firm that coaches teachers and administrators in education design.
Rob Abernathy: Rob Abernathy is an instructor at the University of Phoenix and the University of California at Irvine.