Establishing & Keeping Learners Engaged
Course
Unlock the Secrets of Brain Chemistry for Optimal Learning
Have you ever dreamed about having a group of students who were excited, motivated and eager to learn? And stayed that way throughout your entire training session?
Join Laurie Kelly from Brain Friendly Training to experience how to accomplish this ‘engaged state’. The talk will be walked – experience these effective delivery skills from a learner’s perspective. Bring your pens and laptops to capture the plethora of ideas on
"Establishing and Keeping Learner Engagement," designed for educators and trainers seeking elevated professional development. Facilitate powerful learning experiences that leave a lasting impact and support long-term recall. Your goal: hook, captivate, and keep learners engaged by infusing excitement, motivation, and curiosity into every session.
Unlock the Secrets of Brain Chemistry for Optimal Learning
Delve into the five key 'States' for learning, activating the brain's chemical and neuro-centric processes to maximize outcomes. Explore a smorgasbord of peptides, amino acids, frontal lobe engagement, noradrenalin, amygdala engagement, cortisol, dopamine, and more—a symphony of chemicals influencing the learning experience.
Learn the art of "Hook 'em early and get 'em curious," creating a neuro-chemically enhanced atmosphere of excitement, curiosity, fun, and wonder.
Crafting Engagement: A Journey into Curiosity
nitiate your sessions by sparking curiosity, stimulating the desire to solve problems, and activating the brain's reward system. Learn to engage the Reticular Activation System (RAS), the Parietal, and Frontal lobes—the thinking centres of the brain. Experience practical framing-up activities to anchor learners mentally, attitudinally, and physically in the room, addressing the challenges of contemporary teaching.
Workshop details
Date: Thursday 1 May 2025
Time: 12.00pm AEST (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane)
Duration: 1.5 hours
Investment: $59.99 inc GST.
10% discount! for VET PD Series subscribers - Use your Voucher Code when registering!
Webinar Highlights:
- Exciting Journey Setup: Learn to design an exciting journey that engages curiosity
- Power of Anticipation: Explore the positive impact of creating a sense of positive anticipation for learners as they enter your classroom.
- Attention-Grabbing Starts: Understand the positive effects of attention-grabbing beginnings and their influence on the overall learning experience.
- Curiosity Generation: Discover the power of generating states of curiosity and its profound impact on learning success.
- Designing Activities: Master the art of designing activities that prompt learners to unconsciously question and seek answers.
- Learning Rewards: Reap the rewards of learning by harnessing the learner's own sense of challenge and victory.
- Influencing Learning STATES: Understand the concept of STATE and learn how to influence it for optimal learning outcomes.
- Engaging through Unexpected Situations: Explore ways to engage learners through unexpected situations and seamless segues.
- Fun Integration: Acknowledge the importance of infusing fun throughout your lessons for enhanced engagement.
- Student Attention Strategies: Receive suggestions to engage student attention and focus, ensuring the delivery of content to open minds.
- Abundance of Tips and Techniques: Explore a treasure trove of tips, tricks, and techniques to "market research" and implement for yourself.
Refresh and upgrade your teaching skills, excite your students to learn, and create an environment where learning becomes an ongoing adventure. Join us and become a master of learner engagement!
The Presenter
Laurie Kelly
Laurie Kelly has been opening up the “mysteries of the mind” to trainers and educators from all walks of life around the world for most of his working life. He is a specialist in Brain-Friendly Training and Delivery Skills that engage. This has been his passion for over 30 years and his passion is drawn from his wealth of experience, his love for his subject and his ability to rekindle enthusiasm and passion in even the most tired Educator.
Recognised as a National and International Educator of Educators, he communicates his teachings to everyone at all levels, from CEO’s to the people on the ground, whilst making it captivating, engaging, relevant and instantly transferable back into the workplace. Laurie is driven to improve the learning experience from a learner’s perspective by making trainers more effective and impactful via enhanced & engaging delivery skills.
Laurie speaks both nationally and internationally on current knowledge of how the learning brain works to maximize the impact of teaching, and to create an openness factor in our approach to change and new learning. His experience in improving trainers’ skills in engagement is vast – he is one of the most sought after presenters in his field.
A Statement of Attendance is available for issue on completion of the event's activities.
The recording of the live webinar will be available to participants for 30 days after the event.
CORE AREAS
TRAINING (Revised SRTO) - VOCATIONAL TRAINING INCLUDING COMPETENCY-BASED TRAINING (SRTO2015)
- Facilitating Training
- Plan and prepare for vocational training
- Deliver face-to-face vocational training
ENGAGING AND SUPPORTING VET STUDENTS (Revised SRTO) - VOCATIONAL LEARNING (SRTO2015)
- Supporting Learning
- Support individual and group learning
Completion
The following statements are received when the course is completed:
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