A webinar designed to inspire lecturers and educators no matter where they are in their teaching career.
Might this be the way to make your teaching practice more rewarding, meaningful and inspiring for YOU and your students?
Date TBC drop me a note if you would like to be notified.
Why inspiring lecturing matters
Many believe that teaching should be driven by passion, a belief I wholeheartedly share.
Yet a host of things can get in the way of that passion.
It might be our capacity to connect with our students or battling feelings of imposter syndrome, or it might be that we have never actually had the opportunity to do some teacher training, or we may have done some yet it's not translated into practice.
Without a solid connection to our passion for teaching, we can easily be blown off course by things outside the lecture hall or, indeed, things inside the lecture hall. It can then become increasingly difficult to inspire ourselves or our students.
When we are connected to it, we have greater clarity and focus, and we can be more directive and confident in what we are doing and how we are doing it.
Inspiring lecturing is designed not only to connect to your passion but also to amplify and build it by focusing on the HOW of teaching.
My best hope for our workshop together is that this workshop supports you in making your teaching practice more enjoyable, meaningful and even more inspiring for you AND your students.
what is inspiring lecturing
It would be easy to call it a teaching strategy, or maybe a roadmap, or a teaching GPS system. Although what I call it is a Organising Idea - an organising idea that helps to organise and integrate everything we already know about live teaching and offers insights on how we might build upon that.
An Organising Idea is not just a mere abstraction; it is a potent force that shapes one's understanding of teaching, drives one's actions, and gives coherence to one's work.
(Informed by the work of Lee Shulman)
Theory vs Practice
Please be aware that this workshop isn't going to share a whole load of theory about teaching, learning styles, or pedagogical arguments; instead, this workshop is grounded in the practice of live teaching; we are going to focus on the HOW, the practice and the teaching time with our students.
The workshop also starts from the position that you are already teaching; you already know a great deal about teaching, and this workshop is about honouring that and building upon this know-how. It's certainly not a start or about massive change; instead, it's about organising, refining and spotting the smallest possible things you can do (tomorrow) that can make the greatest difference to HOW you teach, not what you teach.
To achieve this, we need a map, a schema, and a new way to hold all we know to see new possibilities and ways to go. That is what this workshop has been designed to give you.
What does the session look like
The webinar opens at 9:00am, date TBC.
- You can join from 9am and at 9:15 we'll do a round of introductions
- I will then bring some context by sharing the back story to session, where it came from and its core principle
- We’ll then dive into the SIX COLOURs and what they look like in practice
- The final session will be a rapid dive into ChatGPT and how it can support us in this work
- Immediately after the session you will receive your unique access code to an online learning space so you can revisit and go deeper into any aspect of the workshop whenever you wish
- In that online learning space is over 50 short videos and PDFs for you to download and use
What you will come away with:
An understanding of what Inspiring Lecturing is and in how to use it in multiple ways, for example, in translating student feedback, using it for peer-to-peer support, and how you can take your teaching sessions to the next level.
You will also come away with a rapid and practical way to use ChatGPT to support you in this work.
You will also be given a unique access code to an online learning space where there are videos and downloadable PDFs for your to review and go deeper into everything we cover. There are no renewals or subscriptions, your access is available for as long as the site exists.
If you become a signed up member of the online learning space you also become entitled to a 10% discount on all and any future webinars. For example, I have just hosted a face-to-face masterclass with 100+ academics so that maybe coming online this year.
Testimonials
from the live sessions and online sessions during covid.
Dominic McVeigh
'I can quite happily say that this is one of the best training inputs that I have ever received. I would like to say that this should be part of the PGCert LTHE programme, as I have taken so much away from it and I feel that every lecturer no matter of their experience would benefit from this input.'
Programme Lead & Senior Lecturer in Policing (2023)
About your host
Steve Creffield
Steve went on to teach both undergraduate and post-graduate, including MBA students. His results were recognised, and he was invited to share his approach and methods with others. This became the catalyst for his freelance career, which has taken him to work with 100s of academics across multiple universities in the UK and overseas.
Steve is the originator of the Inspiring Lecturing approach and has been sharing it in live sessions for over ten years, during which time the workshop has evolved and been enriched by 100s of academics.
Based in Frome, UK. He’s an enthusiastic photographer and gardener and is passionate about stories and the craft of storytelling.
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