Preventing Death By Lecture! - Terrific Tips For Turning Listeners Into Learners

by Sharon L. Bowman

You KNOW there are better ways to present information to your listeners other than straight lecture. So you've spruced up your presentation or class with beautiful, high-tech computer slides. But, when all is said and done, you realize that your content delivery is STILL lecture-based, and not learner-based. So how DO you involve listeners and turn them into learners? If you want to make your lectures interactive, brain-based, and totally unforgettable, this little gem of a book is for YOU!

Genres: Education, Teaching

Paperback

First published November 30, 2001

About the author

Sharon Bowman is the president of Bowperson Publishing & Training, Inc. She has been a professional speaker, author, teacher, and trainer for almost forty years. She works with businesses and educational institutions that want to offer exceptional in-house training and professional development programs.

Sharon is a popular speaker at both the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) and the Training Magazine Events annual conferences. She is the author of eight popular training books, including the best-selling Pfeiffer/Wiley books titled The Ten-Minute Trainer and Training from the BACK of the Room. Her newest book is Using Brain Science to Make Training Stick.

Sharon practices what she preaches by facilitating highly-interactive, informative, and unforgettable learning experiences. Whether the format is a conference keynote or breakout session, a half-day, full-day, or multi-day training, or webinars and other online learning venues, learners never sit long: they actively participate throughout the entire learning event. The experience is always EPIC: emotional, participatory, image-rich, and connected to their lives.

Join Sharon at one of her learning events and your teaching or training life will change forever!

Reviews

[Ed Schaefer · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great, concise, easy, and short read and is probably best used as a reference. Lots of techniques to engage learners and help them learn better, and help you run better workshops.

Unfortunately the book is a bit dated and many of these techniques, while they work great in person, I am not sure how to translate into a remote world.

I think all trainers and facilitators should read this book and explore utilizing the ideas however, if you are a remote first facilitator or trainer you will probably need to put in some effort to make these work in a remote environment.

[Deborah Hall-hertle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing resource filled with lots of teaching technique's. A must read for any teacher or lecturer.

[Mary · Rating 2 out of 5]

I won't say that there aren't some good ideas in here, because there are if you are a little creative with them... and if all you are doing is lecturing anyone, well you've got a lot to learn on how to teach or present. However depending on your audience and situation you'll likely not want to embrace each of these exactly as presented. For example, I teach programming classes at a tech college, can you imagine my room of 18-40 year old, mostly men reading powerpoint bullets in funny voices with me? No?! Really? I'm shocked...

Still the intent is right on, and getting your classroom or audience engaged in what you are teaching is definitely the right thing to do. You just might need to pick and choose a little and be creative with the ideas in the book.

[Jill Chao · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a great resource for new and old teachers alike. It was required reading for an education course...but it will stay on my shelf within easy reach so I can turn to it again!

[Karen Jett · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book contains many great exercises that you can include in any presentation or training. It's a very useful resource.

[Jon Port]

death by lecture - we've all been there.