What makes great teachers effective at engagement?

We opened the question to our Facebook

community, and this is what they said!

Jocelyn Wilhelm

A teacher listens

Mallie Dein

Using the proper voice. School teachers have a variety of voices they use to get the proper response from their pupils.

Bahram Shamsian

It's all about telling a good story

Joel Carter

Compassion and empathy for others and enthusiasm to share knowledge and teach real life skills

Adele McIntosh

Always make the student feel like his/her contribution is important and that they matter

Christy Kiltz

Trying many avenues so everyone can understand

Discovering and nurturing their natural intelligence. Either, visual, social, physical, linguistic, musical and/or logical. We all have strengths in different areas. Oh... And just plan caring. They can tell if u care or not.

Laurinda Shaver

Dorien Morin-van Dam

Relating to what's important to the kids, knowing what's going on in their world. So genuine interest.And a bit of humor! Never fails.

Rafael Peterson

The ability to explain concepts and ideas using a vocabulary and delivery that is easy to understand

Rich McElaney

They have infectious enthusiasm for the subject matter.

If you are a business owner and have difficulty

engaging your audience,

ask yourself these questions

Do you love what you do?

Are you explaining your offering in terms that your audience can understand?

Do you care about your audience, make them feel like they matter

and really listen to them?

Do you use story telling to make your message

more relevant?

Do you speak in your audience’s voice?

Do you ever try to put yourselfin your audience’s shoes?

Do you try different styles of communicationand occasionally use humor

to deliver your message

Maybe it’s time for a new strategy!

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