Teach With Style

Jim Teeters, Lynn Hodges

Read a sample chapter here, or take this self-assessment (found in Chapter 8) to see how you can begin improving your training delivery!

The best facilitation techniques harness the unique strengths of individual instructors, while incorporating what the learners need to succeed. Classroom facilitators Jim Teeters and Lynn Hodges draw on more than 70 combined years of experience to share their unique and accessible approach to teaching adults. The Teach With Style methodology is a dynamic model built around four "instructor styles," each supported by strategies and tactics that you can use in the classroom. This book will help you improve certain facilitation techniques and skills while enhancing your natural strengths, for a balanced, fresh approach to adult instruction that will accelerate your students' learning.

Takeaways from this book:

• The dynamic model is built around four instructor styles.

• Includes more than 120 take-and-use learning tactics, plus a sample workshop.

• Will help you teach better no matter the setting or your experience level.

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Jim Teeters has been a family-life educator, college professor, staff development specialist, pastor, private workshop leader, and trainer of adult instructors. He has spent a year in China teaching English to university students and faculty. He has a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Washington and a master’s degree in social work from the University of Hawaii. Jim published a book on teaching religious education to all ages (Going Intergenerational: All Ages Learning Bible Truths Together, 2010), is a published poet, and has written a novel with his grandson. Jim and Lynn have a combined 70 years of experience teaching adults.

Lynn Hodges was first exposed to teaching adults while working as a flight attendant at Northwest Airlines. She became certified as a training specialist and went on to teach a variety of subjects, such as leadership, conflict management, and security response to terrorism in the airline industry. She later became a certified instructor for the Speakers Training Camp. Lynn has a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies of social and behavioral sciences with a minor in communications. She currently teaches adults how to organize and deliver great speeches and presentations, in addition to her regular flight attendant duties. Jim and Lynn have a combined 70 years of experience teaching adults.

This is the best train-the-trainer book I have found that bridges the gap between "I'm comfortable with my own training style" and "I can expand my training style to accommodate my learners' needs." The variety of strategies offered to support four different instructor styles is a generous gift to content experts who need examples of specific activities they can use in their training.

Nora Gerber
Instructor
UC Davis Center for Human Services

Teach With Style contains the essentials for those who want to teach adults. Easy to read and especially useful for assessing and planning for all adult learning contexts, this book reminds us that adults want to engage their minds and hearts to solve real-life problems.

Marilyn Chu, EdD
Associate Professor, Early Childhood Education
Western Washington University

Teach With Style provides a wealth of tactics and strategies to help you identify your natural instructor style and become a better facilitator of adult learning.

Margaret Hollinger
President
Hollinger Group Training Solutions

Whether you are new to training and facilitation or have years of experience, Teach With Style contains highly effective and practical activities for working with adult learners. I plan to use this book as an easy reference to make sure I use training and facilitation styles outside my personal comfort zone!

Rita Carson, SPHR, CPLP
Learning and Performance Consultant
RC Training Solutions

This book offers a balanced, organized approach to teaching a diverse adult audience, so that all participants experience what they need to learn.

Sheryl Garrison, MEd
Adjunct College Instructor, Training Coordinator
Child Care Aware of Washington

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Sample Chapter

Table: What's My Style Words List Inventory

Worksheet: Instructor Self-Assessment Inventory

Teach With Style

Jim Teeters, Lynn Hodges

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