This practical, hands-on seminar presents strategies and concepts for structuring and conducting powerful learning experiences for adults. Based on tested principles of learning and teaching, you will combine the best that is known from theory and practice to ensure your audiences connect with you and your content. Appropriate for anyone who presents, runs workshops, makes public reports, runs meetings or trains others in these activities. Learning strategies include presentation, modeling, discussion, simulation, practice and feedback. The seminar is text-based, drawing on the work of Robert Garmston’s The Presenter’s Fieldbook: A Practical Guide (3rd Edition, 2018).
Outcomes: In the two-day Presentation Skills training, participants will participants will:
- Use proven strategies for warming up your audience
- Overcome nervousness and increase confidence
- Give audiences ownership for their learning
- Improve presentation punch through visuals, stage space and non-verbal skills
- Design presentations for greater success
- Read and respond to audience cues
- Tailor your presentation to four learning styles
- Convert resistance, hostility and negative energy
- Engage audience members in interactive learning
- Increase the transformational quality of each presentation
Who Should Attend: This training is for organizations and individuals who want to develop as skillful presenters.
Satisfactory completion requirements:
- Attendance is based on your signature in and out of the session. Failure to provide a signature in and out will result in no credit. Virtual attendance is taken via the Zoom Chat.
- Participants are expected to attend both sessions in their entirety to earn credit.
- Participants must complete an electronic course evaluation within two weeks of the session date to be sent a certificate.
- Accommodations, questions and complaints can be directed to: professionallearning@truenorth804.org
Cost Information: Participation fees are waived for TrueNorth employees and TrueNorth member district employees. For individual participants who do not meet the above criteria, this course participation fee is $250.00 per session plus a one time purchase of $43 for the resource book (Total of $543 for both days). Participation or material fees will be billed directly to the school district that employs the participant after the session is complete or the first session in a series is complete. Individuals are asked to not bring payment to the session.
Cancellation and Refund Information: There is no cancellation fee, though we ask for advance notice to open the spot for another person. TrueNorth reserves the right to cancel any session due to low enrollment. TrueNorth does not charge prior to the start of the offered session. If an individual attends the first day of a learning series but is unable to attend the remaining sessions, the school district that employs the participant is able to designate an alternate person. It is up to the individual no longer attending the program to give their replacement the information learned in the first session.
About the Presenter: Michael Dolcemascolo is the former Executive Co-Director of Thinking Collaborative, the home of the Adaptive Schools Seminars and the Cognitive Coaching SeminarsSM. An independent consultant, Michael regularly presents workshops to educators on Cognitive CoachingSM, Adaptive Schools, as well as presentation and facilitation skills to national and international audiences.
Michael delightfully spends much of his energy mentoring coaches and facilitators who wish to become agency trainers for their systems, and also regularly facilitates groups that are planning, problem-resolving, and engaging in change.
Michael is co-author with Robert Garmston of the Storytelling Study Companion (Corwin, 2019), the Study Group Facilitation Guide for The Presenter's Fieldbook (Rowman Littlefield, 2018), The Focusing Four: A Consensus Seeking Activity DVD Viewers Guide and Dialogue DVD Viewers Guide (Center for Adaptive Schools, 2009). With Carolyn McKanders, Michael has co-authored the Developing Collaborative Groups Study Guide, and co-edited the Adaptive Schools Foundation Workshop Learning Guide (Thinking Collaborative, 2017).
A former English teacher, Michael taught at all levels from Kindergarten through grade 12, and became a professional development specialist for 20 years. He served as Assistant Director of Staff Development at the Onondaga-Cortland-Madison Board of Cooperative Educational Services, providing professional training to the 23 school districts surrounding the city of Syracuse in Central New York.
Michael holds BA degrees in Religious Studies and in English from Montclair State University, an MA in Cultural Symbol Systems from Syracuse University's Department of Religion and a CAS in Educational Administration from the State University of New York, Cortland.
Financial Disclosure: Michael Dolcemascolo receives a presenters fee for this training.
Non-Financial Disclosure: Michael is co-author with Robert Garmston of the Storytelling Study Companion (Corwin, 2019), the Study Group Facilitation Guide for The Presenter's Fieldbook (Rowman Littlefield, 2018), The Focusing Four: A Consensus Seeking Activity DVD Viewers Guide and Dialogue DVD Viewers Guide (Center for Adaptive Schools, 2009). With Carolyn McKanders, Michael has co-authored the Developing Collaborative Groups Study Guide, and co-edited the Adaptive Schools Foundation Workshop Learning Guide (Thinking Collaborative, 2017).
*Member Districts include:
Northbrook 27, Northbrook 28, Sunset Ridge 29, Glenview/Northbrook 30, West Northfield 31, Glenview 34, Glencoe 35, Winnetka 36, Kenilworth 38, Lake Bluff 65, Lake Forest 67, Bannockburn 106, Deerfield 109, North Shore 112, Township HS 113, Lake Forest 115, New Trier 203, Glenbrook 225.
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